Academic Presentations
     
  June 2005
(scheduled)
  EndNote as Knowledge-Builder: the Bridge Between TAC and WAC
      Computers and Writing Conference 2005, Stanford, Palo Alto
       
  April 2005   Electronic Portfolios
Guest presenter, EDRS 631, Graduate School of Education, George Mason University
       
  April 2005   History as Integrator: Teaching History through Interdisciplinary Learning Communities
      The Seventh Annual History in Higher Education Conference,Oxford, England
       
  Nov. 2004   Trends in Electronic Portfolio Initiatives
Faculty Showcase, George Mason University (with Darren Cambridge)
       
  May 2004   E-Portfolios: Re-Invigorating or Undermining Learning?
      National Learning Communities Conference, Seattle, Washington
       
  April 2004   Using Blogging as a Teaching and Learning Tool
Faculty Showcase, George Mason University (with Nada Dabbagh and Virginia Montecino)
       

January 2004

The Learner-Centered Classroom: How Teaching with Technology Transforms Theory into Practice



AACU (American Association of Colleges and Universities) conference, Washington, D.C.
       

March 2003

Grass Roots Faculty Leadership for Change: Communities of Practice and Technology-Enriched Learning



AAHE (American Association of Higher Education) Learning to Change Conference, Washington DC



 
  July 2002   The Historical Vocabulary of Truth
    The Fifth International Robert Graves Conference
The British School of Rome
Rome, Italy
     
March 2002
  Using TownHall to Support Writing: Students Responding Online 
    English Department Brown Bag, George Mason University (with Virginia Montecino)
     
March 2002   E-Portfolios in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
    Faculty Showcase, George Mason University (with James Young)
     
June 2001   Writing In and Across New Contexts
    National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Bloomington, IN (with Virginia Montecino & Ashley Williams)
     
May 2001   A Level Playing Field? First-Year Students' Attitudes to Technology-Enriched Learning
    Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, IN
(with James Young & Rebecca Kelly)
     
June 2000   Separating Competence from Access
    American Association of Higher Education Assessment Conference, Charlotte, NC
     
May 2000   Metaphors of Mastery
    Computers and Writing 2000 Conference, Fort Worth, TX
     
April 2000   The Lucid Link: Towards a Rhetoric of Convergence
    Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO 
     
Feb. 2000   Hyperpoetics (Workshop)
    Guest Workshop Leader, Hypertext Poetry (MFA program, GMU)
     
Dec. 1999   Film & Teaching Literature
    English Department, GMU
     
Oct. 1999   Writing and New Media
    Borders Bookshop, Fairfax, VA (with English Matters)
       
  April 1999   The Link and the Cut: the syntax of film and hypertext
      Teaching and Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking, George Mason University
(summary of colloquium in English Matters, Computers and Writing, issue 3, Spring 2000)
       
  April 1999   Composition and Computers (Workshop)
      Guest Workshop Leader, English 697: The Teaching of Composition, GMU 
       
  Aug. 1998   Composition and Electronic Resources
      English Department Orientation for New Faculty, GMU
       
  April 1998   Film into Text; Visual Inspiration/Effective Writing
      Cherry Blossom Conference on Critical Thinking, Montgomery College, MD
       
  April 1998   Writing the Worldwide Web
      English Department Brown Bag, GMU

 
 

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George Mason University
Last Updated: 30 June, 2005