Publications
Presentations & Workshops
Regional, National, and International Conferences
Digitalization and the Writing Classroom: A Dialogue about Current Research and Best Practices -- with Megan Palmer, M.A.
European Association for Teachers of Academic Writing -- Götenburg, Sweden -- 2019
This presentation encouraged participants to look at how multimodal composition has gained in prevalence in recent years while examining the benefits and drawbacks of the theory in practice.
Cultivating Capacities, Creating Change: Teachers as Activists and Video Makers
College Composition and Communication -- Portland, OR -- 2017
This co-presentation crossed a bit into the third phase of the research in and was a 7-hour (full-day) workshop focused on creating PSAs.
Megan Palmer again joined me as we teamed up with the following co-presenters: Kefaya Diab (New Mexico State University), Theresa Donovan (University of Texas at El Paso), Gwen Gray Schwartz (University of Mount Union), Lynda Haas (University of California Irvine), Laurie MacMillan (Pace University), Patricia Portanova (Northern Essex Community College), and Anthony Stagliano (New Mexico State University).
In this presentation, Megan shared her specific writing/narration/storyboarding process (as shown in the handout to the right), and we walked through the specific planning stages necessary to think about the planning process necessary to regarding an author's ability to reach his/her audience.
Digital Storytelling: Encouraging Multimodal Projects to Increase Student Engagement
Learning Assistance Association of New England - Nashua, NH -- 2016
Digital Storytelling, a way for students to process and share content through a variety of digital tools, encourages the integration of visual, audio, and written information. Considered “multimodal,” successful storytelling requires planning, research, and script writing in addition to executing technical elements in order to combine to create a final product. Although the demonstration focuses on the digital stories created in a writing research course, the process will be shared in such a way that stories may be applied in a variety of courses.
Digital Storytelling: Multimodal Projects for the Classroom and Beyond
College Reading and Learning Association - Louisville, KY - 2016
This presentation still addressed phase one of the research in that it combined the literature review with both the faculty and student perspective. Megan Palmer, a sophomore at the time, joined me as a co-presenter. This allowed us to discuss how the secondary research intersected (or not) with my experiences teaching digital stories as applied to her experiences creating them.