Selected Presentations

Multisensory approaches
to reading & writing

Sociocultural trends and the teaching of English. National Council of Teachers of English. Orlando, Florida.

It's too damn boring. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, Georgia.

Senses as Defibrillator. American Reading Forum. Fort Myers, Florida.

Contextual, multisensory teaching.  Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.  Orlando, Florida.

Sensorizing reading.  American Reading Forum.  Sanibel, Florida.

Writing like play.  Indiana Teachers of Writing.  Indianapolis, Indiana.

Literacy through multisensory learning.  International Reading Association.  Atlanta, Georgia.

Reading and happiness.  American Reading Forum.  Sanibel, Florida.

Future literacy.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Food for thought.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Nashville, Tennessee.

Multisensory learning.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Teaching vocabulary through multimedia.  International Reading Association.  Reno, Nevada. 

 Naked on fire: Teaching oppositional students to write. International Reading Association.  Orlando, Florida. 

Teaching adolescents the unsubtle art of writing well.  International Reading Association.  San Francisco, California. 

Writing without boundaries.  Society for Effective Affective Learning (SEAL).  Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

Buzzards in outer space.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Atlanta, Georgia. 

Print and technology—Necessary antagonists?  National Council of Teachers of English annual conference.  Baltimore, Maryland. 

Using non-linguistic stimuli to enhance the quality of writing.  National Writing Project, Fresno, California. 

 Writing in 3-D.  Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. San Diego, California. 

Re imaging the past: Situating American literary works in the context of their times.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Denver, Colorado. 

Revitalizing revision through multimedia.  Teaching teenagers to write.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Orlando, Florida. 

How bleeding edge technologies change student perceptions of the difficulty of a text.  The International Reading Association Annual Conference: Orlando, Florida. 

Film to literature.  Georgia Council of Teachers of English, Winter Conference, Helen, Georgia. 

Writing for century 21. Georgia Council of Teachers of English, Winter Conference, Helen, Georgia.  

Writing without a 'Net.  Texas Writer’s Convention.  Belton, Texas. 

The amelioration
of public schools

The Wal-Mart effect and teacher preparation. Oklahoma Association of Teacher Educators. Norman, Oklahoma

Separate and unequal. American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. Atlanta

Ways of knowing: Past, present, and future.  World Future Conference.  Washington, D.C.

The future of public schools.  World Future Conference.  Toronto, Canada.

The future of teaching English.  National Council of Teachers of English.  San Antonio, Texas.

Eight minutes and falling: The fate of reading in a digital age.  Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education.  San Antonio, Texas.

Seven principles for teaching adolescents who have never known life without MTV.  American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.  New Orleans, Louisiana. 

How to get a life: Empowering wisdom from the lives of the eminent.  Society for Effective Affective Education.  University of Keele, England.

Teaching teachers how to reach the reluctant reader through multimedia.  Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education.  Nashville, Tennessee. 

From fallow to fertile ground.  College Composition and Communication.  San Antonio, Texas. 

Enhancing the quality of learning every day.  Indiana.

The paradoxes of teacher preparation.  American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.  Dallas, Texas.

Thinking out of the box.  Technology, Reading & Learning Difficulties.  San Francisco, California. 
Writing and work portfolios.  Toledo Public Schools, Ohio.

Rage towards the machine.  Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education.  Orlando, Florida. 

The evangelist and the conscientious objector.  Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. San Diego, California. 

Naked teaching.  National Council of Teachers of English.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Excavating for buried treasure: The ordeal of collaboration.  American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.  Washington, D.C. 

Primetime, schooltime.  International Reading Association, San Diego, California. 

State of the Net in secondary schools.  Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Webnet International, Orlando, Florida.

Using portfolios to assess student achievement over time.  State Colleges of Colorado Conference.  Grand Junction, Colorado. 

Finding flow.  Georgia Council of Teachers of English, Savannah, Georgia. 

Media as a variable in the quality of learning.  Clayton County (Georgia). 

Advanced uses of technology.  Chattooga County (Georgia).