Rosemary Huse Dibben, M.A.
English Teacher

Contact:

PUC Preparatory School
McKibbin Hall
One Angwin Ave.
Angwin, CA 94508
(707) 965-6759
E-mail: rdibben@puc.edu

Experience:

• Pacific Union College Preparatory School, Angwin, CA 94508 ('04-Present)
  • English teacher
    Classes:
    • English 9
    • English 10
    • English 10 Honors
    • English 11
    • English 11 Honors (Independent Study)
    • English 12
    • English 12 Honors (Independent Study)
    • Honors English 11/12
  • Co-principal ('05-'06)
  • Curriculum committee, chair
  • Academic Standards committee
  • Class sponsor
  • National Honor Society sponsor ('04-'05)
  • Web site developer and editor
    
    
• Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA 94508 ('01-'04)
  • Director, Learning Resource Center
  • College Composition (ENGL 101 & 102)
  • College Success Skills (GNST 103)
  • Advanced English Syntax (ENGL 434, Independent study)
  • Distance Learning Committee
  • Faculty resource person for Turnitin.com
  • Department web sites, developer and editor
    
    
• Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN 37315 ('91-'01)
  • College Composition (ENGL 101 & 102)
  • Grammar and Linguistics for Teachers (ENGL 205)
  • Advanced Grammar (ENGL 305) 
  • Introduction to Linguistics (ENGL 315)
  • Library Materials for Young Adults (ENGL 430)
  • College Composition Online, web site developer (1997) & course developer (2000)
  • Writing across the Curriculum Committee, chair
  • Ad hoc committee of online course developers, PR & academic administration, member
  • Young Writers' Workshop, coordinator
  • Academic Writing Competition, coordinator
  • General Education Committee, member
  • English Dept. web site, developer and editor
    
    
• Collegedale Academy, Collegedale, TN 37315 (‘82-‘91)
  • 9th & 11th grade English
  • Honors English (11th & 12th grade)
  • Journalism & newspaper sponsor
  • English Dept. chair
  • Developmental English program
    
    
• Mountain View Academy, Mountain View, CA (‘81-‘82)
  • 9th & 11th grade English
  • Journalism
  • Newspaper sponsor
  • Freshman class sponsor
  • Faculty representative to the Parent-Teacher Organization
    
    
• Pacific Union College Preparatory School, Angwin, CA (‘80-‘81)
  • Developmental English
  • Attendance officer

Professional Activities, Presentations, and Publications:

• Using Turnitin.com to Deter and Detect Plagiarism, PUC Nursing Dept. presentation, 2006
  • Student Instruction Sheet
  • Teacher Instruction Sheet
• "The Basic, No-Frills Essay: How to Get an "A" on an Academic Essay" (periodically revised)
• "Motivating Originality: Deterring Internet Plagiarism in a Wired World," AVLN Conference presentation, 2004
• Using Class Web Sites, SAU faculty assembly presentation, 1999
• Pre-publication reviews of LeTourneau's English Grammar for Harcourt College Publishers, 1998-1999
• Writer's consultant on Tradition Rediscovered: The Finley Collection of Russian Art, 1998

Professional Conferences, Courses, and Workshops Attended:

• Curriculum Design for Excellence seminar by T. Roger Taylor, 2007
• Soul Shapers (E.G. White & Choice Theory), PUC 2006
• Choice Theory, PUC, 2004
• Exceptional Children in the Classroom, PUC, August 2004
• AVLN (Adventist Virtual Learning Network), PUC, July 2004
• Cooperative Learning Workshop, PUC, June 2004
• ADEC (Adventist Distance Education Consortium) Course Management Software Subcommittee, spring-summer 2004
• AVLN Conference, Alberta, Canada, June-July 2003
• ADEC Board (PUC representative), Atlanta, GA, June 2003
• Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002
• ADEC Enrollment Subcommittee, Loma Linda, CA, Oct. 2002
• Northern California Consortium Project Teaching Academy, Aug. 2002
• Dreamweaver Conference, Macromedia Web World, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2002
• Online Learning Convention, Denver, CO, Sept. 2000
• WebCT training, Collegedale, TN, summer 2000 & Jan. 2001
• Web site development workshop, Chattanooga, TN, fall 2000

Education:

• Postgraduate
  • M.A., English Lit., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (‘89)
  • University of London summer course in Victorian literature (‘81)
• Undergraduate
  • B.A., English, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA (‘81)
  • Newbold College, Bracknell, Berks, UK (‘78-79)
• High school
  • PUC Preparatory School ('77)
  • Loma Linda Academy