Alan Reid earned my Ph.D. in Instructional Design & Technology from Old Dominion University, an M.A. in Teaching from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and a B.A. in English from The Ohio State University. I am an Assistant Professor of First-Year Writing & Instructional Technologies at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, SC where I teach courses in composition, new media, and professional/technical writing. I also have taught a variety of graduate courses in the Instructional Design & Technology doctoral program at Old Dominion University. In addition, I am an Assessment & Evaluation Analyst / Educational Research Associate at the Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE) at Johns Hopkins University, and a certified trainer for iParadigms. My research areas include metacognition and self-regulation, particularly in new media. I have written extensively on generative learning strategy use in digital text, the implementation of social media in higher ed, and a variety of other topics including the effects of social annotation and perceptual span on reading in digital media. I am interested in computing technologies as cognitive extensions; presently, I am writing on the relationship between smartphone usage and personality traits (narcissism, specifically), academic performance, and uses and gratifications. Please consider taking my survey: The Smartphone Usage Inventory.