Presentations

Recent

• “Cultivating a Purposeful Approach to AI,” Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Higher Ed Workshop, NERCOMP (Northeast Regional Computing Program). With John FitzGibbon, Noël Ingram, and Claire Angus. November 20, 2024. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
• “Building custom agents to cultivate curiosity and community“, Cogniti Mini-Conference, November 4, 2024
• “Helping chatbots find their purpose: Empowering faculty to decide AI’s role in education,” Catholic Higher Education and AI Conference. Oct. 19, 2024. University of Portland.
• With John Fitzgibbon, “Capturing and Scaling Quality Canvas Course Design: Boston College’s Story” OLC Innovate Conference. April 11, 2014
• With John Fitzgibbon, “AI in teaching and learning: Strategies for Effective Use and Adoption“, Association for Jesuit Colleges and Universities CITM Conference, March 6, 2024

Past

Educational Technology and Digital Humanities

• With Mike Goudzwaard and Michael Evans, “MediaKron Meet Badges: Building Learning Narratives through Digital Projects,” AAEEBL Annual Conference, Boston, MA, July 30, 2015
• With James Liou and David Pook, “Balancing Act: A Districtwide Approach for Integrating the Common Core,” 2014 NCSS Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November 23, 2014
• “Lessons Learned from Building a Digital Humanities LTI,” CanvasCon 2014, Park City, UT, June 19th, 2014.
• “Workshop: Introduction to MediaKron,” THATCamp New England, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 31, 2014.
• With Lindsay Whitacre, “Emerging Practices in Digital Humanities Teaching.”Digital Humanities: The Next Generation.” Simmons College, March 16, 2013.
• Co-facilitated a session on “Comparative Tools (OMEKA, Drupal, and WordPress) at The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp New England, Brown University, Oct. 20, 2012.
• “Walking Ulysses: Collaborative and Mobile Mapping in the Humanities,” New Media Consortium Conference 2011, Madison, WI. June 28, 2011
• Pre-conference seminar presentation, “Leveraging Mobile Technologies on Our Campuses and Beyond,” NERCOMP (New England Regional Computer Program) 2011 Annual Conference, Providence, RI. March 28, 2011.
• With Joe Nugent, “‘Walking Ulysses: Joyce’s Dublin Today’: A Mobile Learning Project from BC,” Mobile Learning in Higher Education (Northeast Computing Program SIG), Sept. 20, 2010. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
• “Building Capacity Through Good Usability – Lessons from Instructional Design” Drupalcon Boston 2008. Boston, Massachusetts. March 3–6, 2008.
• “MEMEO: A Web-Based Innovative Tool to Create Multimedia Course Content. New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) Fall Conference.” Nov. 9, 2007.
• “Drupal as an Instructional Design Tool.” New Media Consortium Summer Conference. Cleveland OH. June 7–10, 2006.
• “Using Drupal to Create Virtual Classroom Communities.” Co-facilitator of pre-conference workshop. Computers and Writing 2005. Palo Alto, CA. June 2005.
• “Integrating WebCT and Open Source Social Software in a Composition Course” (poster session). The Fifteenth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Jacksonville, FL. March 2004.

Place, Community, and Technology

• “Blogging Places: Using Social Media to Foster Place Identification and Share Local Knowledge.” Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center Conference: “Sustainable Water in a Changing World.” April 9, 2007. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA.
• “Placemaking in a Networked World.” Guest lecturer in Anne Tate’s course “American Communities in the 20th Century: Civics and Sustainability.” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. May 8, 2006
• “Writing with Locative Media.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
• “The Rhetoric of Place-Based Blogging.” Computers and Writing 2004. University of Hawaii. June 2004.
• “Technologies of Where: Fostering Place Literacy in Online Environments.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX. March 2004.
• “Composition as Eco-Effective Design.” Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Boston, MA. June, 2003.
• Workshop Presentation: “Community ‘Service’ in Graduate Education.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 2003.

Literary Studies

• “Accidental Tourists: Place Literacy and Immigrant Identities in Boston.” Thomas R. Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, Kentucky. October, 2002.
• “Immigrant Environments: The Places of Assimilation in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land.” Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Flagstaff, AZ. June 2001.
• “Emigrant Regionalism in Sarah Orne Jewett’s ’A Little Captive Maid.’” Central New York Conference on Language and Literacy. Cortland, NY. October, 2000.
• “Green Prosaics: Nature and the Ordinary in John Clare’s Poetry.” Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Kalamazoo, MI. June, 1999.