Rick Duet, Ph.D.
Director, MacLab and Associate Professor of Mass Communication
Nicholls State University

Rick has 20 years of teaching experience at the University level and for the past 9 years has taught courses in desktop publishing, advertising and public relations. An early adopter of technology, Rick has been one of the leaders on campus in utilizing technology in teaching and learning. Rick has consulted with virtually every department on campus while helping faculty understand the possibilities and logistics of integrating technology in the teaching and learning process.

For the past few years Rick has served the TLT Group as a technology consultant, designer, cluster leader and presenter. Rick is a co-developer in the TLTR Clinic idea started at the summer 1999 institute and used in many TLT Group meetings today. Rick has served as a facilitator trainer and is the designer of the TLT Group PowerPoint presenter's template.

Rick consults professionally on the use of computers and in the design of electronic presentations. 

1998 - present         
Coordinator of Instructional Technology
Nicholls State University

Faculty consultant for incorporating technology in teaching and learning campus-wide. Responsibilities include research on new technologies, training of faculty and execution of new distance learning initiatives.

1990 - present         
Associate Professor of Mass Communication
Nicholls State University

Faculty member in a nationally accredited department. Responsibilities include teaching Computers for Mass Communication, the Advertising Copy & Layout, Advertising Concepts & Strategies, Public Relations Campaigns & Strategies and Public Relations Campaigns.

1990 - present         
Director of the Mass Communication Computer Labs
Nicholls State University

Develop and maintain the Mass Communication teaching lab, the broadcast writing lab, the photojournalism lab and the Bob Blazier TV Studio graphics station. Responsibilities include procuring equipment and software, training and managing graduate student lab consultants, and hardware and software troubleshooting.

1995 - present         
National Leader
The TLT Group

Technology consultant and presenter for The TLT Group. Responsibilities include leading workshops on facilitator training and incorporating technology into teaching and learning, design of presentation template for  TLT Group speakers, consulting on marketing literature and coordination of presentation technologies at national and regional meetings.

1998 - present         
Technology Editor
The Louisiana English Journal

Write a quarterly column on using technology in education and answer questions submitted by readers.

Professional Publications and Presentations

Ø   Dissertation: Cross-Promotion of Internet Advertising: A Test of recall of Worldwide Web addresses in Prime-Time Television, June 1999.
Ø   Design of corporate sales presentation template for Patterson Tubular Services, Inc., Houston, TX, May 1999.
Ø   Presenter for three papers titled, “Recall of Professional Golf Sponsors: An Exploratory Study of the Fans’ Recall of Corporate Sponsors”, Communication Apprehension and the Marketing and Advertising Student: An Instructor’s Guide to In-Class Treatment”, and “Television Advertising and the Integration of New Media” at the 1999 Association of Marketing Theory & Practice Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, April 15 – 17, 1999. 
Ø   Invited Guest Presenter on “Presentation Templates and Corporate Identity,” at the 1^st Annual TLT Group Leadership Conference in Washington, D. C., February 26 – 27, 1999.
Ø   Designed and presented 50^th Anniversary retrospective slide show about NSU’s first 50 years on June 23, 1998.
Ø   Workshop Leader on “How to Begin a TLTR,” for the 4^th Annual TLTR Summer Institute, July 11 – 14, 1998, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ø   Co-presenter, "Lessons Learned from Technology Roundtable Members." Nicholls State University Fall 1997 Faculty Institute, August 1997.

Education

Ph.D., May 1999.
Subject area: Technology, Internet Advertising, Recall of WWW addresses.
School of Communication
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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