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Presentations

A list of selected presentations I have given (in alphabetical order). Please refer to my CV for a complete list.

2007-2008 PRESENTATIONS

A Carnival of Collaboration - February 23, 2008 - Presented to mentor teachers from the Lansing Area Elementary Team as part of the Elementary Explorations workshop at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules - February 3, 2007 - Presented with Joe Freidhoff & Jim Ratcliffe at the 23nd Annual Educational Technology Conference of the Michigan State University College of Education, East Lansing, MI.

Copyright, Cybercourtesy, & Cybersafety in a Creative Commons Age - March 19, 2008 - Presented for the iTec Spring 2008 Workshop Series

Developing & Participating in Professional Communities of Practice: Blogging & Wikis - February 27, 2008 - Presented for the iTec Spring 2008 Workshop Series

Elementary Explorations - February 23, 2008 - Presented to mentor teachers from the Lansing Area Elementary Team as a day-long workshop

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Exploring Visual Cognition: Graphic Design & Photo Editing - February 13, 2008 - Presented for the iTec Spring 2008 Workshop Series

It’s a Jungle Out There!: Surviving School the Curious George (2.0) Way - February 23, 2008 - Presented to mentor teachers from the Lansing Area Elementary Team as part of the Elementary Explorations workshop

Just the Basics - January 23, 2008 - Presented as part of the iTec Spring 2008 Workshop Series at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Kick It Up A Notch! - November 2007 - Keynote address delivered at the National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL) Swapshop Breakfast, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Layering the Learning - February 23, 2008 - Presented at Middlebury Elementary School, Middlebury, CT.

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Learning is in the Layers: Language & Literacy in the Web 2.0 World - December 1, 2007, Presented at the Bay Area Foreign Language Program (BAFLP) Professional Development Day, Stanford University, CA.

Literacy Exploration Stations - February 5, 2008 for TE 402 literacy courses for elementary education majors at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Grosshandler, Dean J., Matthew Boyer, Carrie Anna Courtad, Cherice Montgomery, & Punya Mishra. (2007, April 9). Motivated by design: Making meaning of participant movement in an out-of-school learning environment. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Informal Learning Environments Research SIG, Chicago.

Make Yourself a Masterpiece: The “Art” of 21st Century Communication - February 23, 2008 - Presented to mentor teachers from the Lansing Area Elementary Team as part of the Elementary Explorations workshop

Online Teaching/Online Learning: Skills for the 21st Century Educator - March 5, 2008 - Presented with Scott Schopieray at the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.

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Organizing with Learning Libraries: Zotero for Teaching & Research February 6, 2008 - Prepared in conjunction with Jing Fu for the iTec Spring 2008 Workshop Series

STARTALK Mentoring & Leadership for K-12 Chinese Teachers - June 20-July 1, 2008 - Presented with Cindy Kendall as a 10-day workshop for Chinese teachers at the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Teens, Toys, Talkin’, & Tech: Playing with Possibility in a Digital World - November 2007, Presented with Cindy Kendall at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language Conference (ACTFL), San Antonio, TX.

Teens, Toys, Talkin’, & Tech: Playing with the Possibilities of a Digital Age - March 10, 2007, Presented at the Central States Conference (CSC) at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, Kansas City, MO.

What Can You Do With a Wiki? - March 6, 2008 - Presented with Cindy Kendall at the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning Conference (MACUL), Grand Rapids, MI.

The Wonderful World of Wikis - November 16, 2007, Presented with Cindy Kendall at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language Conference (ACTFL), San Antonio, TX.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS (In alphabetical order by title)

Classroom Administrivia

  • Let’s get organized! - April 4, 2003 - Presented as a 1½ hour, concurrent session for a building-wide inservice at Southeast High School, Wichita, KS.

Curriculum Development

  • Taking Control of Your Textbook - October 8, 2004 at the Kansas Foreign Language Association Conference, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS.

Diverse Learners

  • The ABCs of Effective Teaching in American Schools - July 2001 at the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
  • Flash judgments, cross-cultural communications, and connections - February 13, 2004 - Presented with Tonya Huber, Doug F. Warring, Mini Kapoor-Siddique, Aneesh Joshi, Gautham S. Kasargod, & Cindy C. McGilvrey to 150 staff members as a two-hour interactive inservice session at Southeast High School, Wichita, KS.
  • Multiple Perspectives: The Meaning in the Making - April 22, 2004 at the Center for Financial Training Great Plains Region, Wichita, KS.
  • PreK-12 Arabic and Hebrew Teacher Preparation Institute - Enhance student outcomes in Arabic and Hebrew programs by giving institute participants hands-on experiences with research-based best practices and instructional strategies in foreign language teaching and learning - July 2-11, 2006 at UCLA’s Center for World Languages, Los Angeles, CA.

Instructional Strategies

  • Blockbusters! Interactive activities for blocked & non-blocked classes - November 1999 - Presented at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Dallas, TX.
  • Hands-on, Minds-on Activities for Supporting Student Learning - March 6, 2005 at the Ozarks Foreign Language Association Conference, Central High School, Springfield, MO.
  • JUNTOS Textbook User’s Session: Pages from the Panic File - October 27, 2001 at the Kansas Foreign Language Association Conference for Pearson Education (formerly Prentice-Hall), Wichita Marriott Hotel, Wichita, KS.

Leadership

  • Mentoring, Leadership, & Change: Designing Compelling Experiences for 21st Century Learners - Explore key concepts and principles related to mentoring, leadership, change, design, and new technologies. Empower, initiate, implement, and sustain change on multiple levels (individual, departmental, program, district, university, local community, state, regional, or national) regarding a facet of foreign language education that was personally meaningful (such as curriculum development, classroom instruction and assessment, program advocacy and articulation, professional development, or policy issues) - July 19-27, 2006 at the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

    Literacy (See also: Technology)

    • Literacy for the 21st Century Language Learner in the K-8 Classroom - December 1, 2005, New Jersey.
    • Literacy in the Land of Ahs: Designing Compelling Experiences for 21st Century Learners - Powerful winds of change have blown us into the 21st Century and deposited us in a world where new technologies are rapidly transforming our cultural practices, pushing the limits of our language, and expanding the set of literacies and skills that are necessary for survival and success. In this session, we invite you to join us in following Dorothy and her friends down the yellow brick road of possibilities, through a forest of digital dangers, and into the wonderful world of Ahs that new technologies can provide! On our way, we’ll explore what it means to be literate in the 21st Century, we’ll identify typical breakdowns in learning and experience ways to scaffold students’ engagement with 21st Century texts, we’ll repurpose 20th Century activities to better support 21st Century learners, and we’ll consider how we can use new technologies to develop interpretive tasks that are more cognitively challenging and emotionally engaging for students. Although we may not make it quite as far as the famed Emerald City, we guarantee you that you’ll discover a Land or two so filled with Ahs along the way that you may hope that your ruby red slippers stay lost forever! - February 21, 2006 at the St. Clair County Professional Development Day, Marysville High School, Marysville, MI.
    • Making math manageable - November 2003 - Presented with Barb Hanstedt & Greg Field as a 50-minute faculty meeting and presented it to approximately 35 faculty members at Southeast High School, Wichita, KS.
    • Mission impossible: An experience, not an inservice! - October 24, 2003 - Presented with Jeanette Blide as a half day inservice on best practices in reading, writing, teaching, and learning for faculty at Southeast High School, Wichita, KS.

    Research

    • Grosshandler, Dean J., Matthew Boyer, Carrie Anna Courtad, Cherice Montgomery, & Punya Mishra. (2007, April 9). Motivated by design: Making meaning of participant movement in an out-of-school learning environment. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Informal Learning Environments Research SIG, Chicago.
    • Courtad, Carrie Anna, Matthew Boyer, Cherice Montgomery, Dean Grosshandler, & Punya Mishra. (2006, November 11). Analyzing student movement as a cognitive window when engaging with technology. Poster presentation in the Teacher Education Division and Technology & Media National Conference, San Diego, CA.

    Standards-based Instruction (See also: Curriculum Development)

    • Convergence: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Curriculum, & the 5 Cs - October 29, 2004 at the Michigan Foreign Language Association Conference, Holiday Inn, Lansing, MI.
    • Standards in practice: An introduction - April 28, 2004 - Presented as a 50-minute faculty meeting to approximately 120 staff members at Southeast High School, Wichita, KS.

    Teacher Preparation

    Technology

    • Integrating New Technologies in the Standards-based Foreign Language Classroom. - July 14-23, 2002 at Columbia College, Columbia, SC.

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