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selected recent scholarship


"Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Severe Storms on the Northern Plains," with Jennifer Laflin, graduate student, accepted for presentation at "Death, Murder and Mayhem on the Northern Plains," Omaha, NE, April, 2008.
 
"The Poetry and Prose of Mary Mundt," accepted for presentation at the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English annual meeting, Oacoma, SD, February, 2008.
 
"Computer Text Markup: 'How Much SGML Does a Man Need?'" presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Dakota State University, Madison, SD, October 2007.
 
"Effecting Nirvana: Achieving the Paperless Classroom with the Tablet PC," Presented at the 17th annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2006; published in the conference proceedings.
 
"Reading poetry aloud to increase student comprehension," presented to the South Dakota Teachers of English, Chamberlain, SD, April 2006.
 
"Using the Tablet PC," a two-day workshop, with Dr. Nancy Moose, presented to selected faculty from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, June, 2005.

"It's Never Too Early: Helping Your Students Prepare for the Junior Level Proficiency Exam," a panel presented to the South Dakota Teachers of English, Chamberlain, SD, April 2005.

"When Worlds Collide: Best Practices Meet the Distance Education Classroom," Presented at the 15th annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2004.

"Jonathan Swift's 'Enigma Variations': Breaking the Code in Gulliver's Travels?" presented at the Great Plains Alliance on Computers and Writing, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska, April, 2003.

"A Tale of Two Projects: Encouraging Undergraduate Research," presented at the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English Annual Meeting, Chamberlain, South Dakota, April 2003.

"Love and Death in Romeo and Juliet" with Heather Robertson, undergraduate student, presented at the Great Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Spearfish, South Dakota, April, 2001. Published in the conference proceedings.

"Putting the 'Dis' to Distance Education," presented at the International Conference on Technology and Education, Tampa, Florida, October, 1999. Published in the conference proceedings.

Invited Presenter and Panelist: "Developing Courses for Web-Based Delivery: A Live Satellite Event" Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Broadcast via Public Broadcasting Service, November 5, 1998.

"The Importance of Pedagogy, Technology, and Audience in Designing Web-Based Courses," presented at the International Conference on Technology and Education, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March, 1998. Published in the conference proceedings.

"Literary Criticism and Freshman Composition: Differing Approaches for Different Courses," with Molly Turner-Lammers, presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Distance Education and Teaching, August, 1997, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Published in conference proceedings.

Teaching Literary Criticism on the Internet, presented at the NAU/Web 97 Conference, Northern Arizona University, June 14, 1997. Web published and archived in their electronic conference proceedings.

"Electronic Alternatives to Distance Education." part of a panel with Tim McGee and Molly Turner-Lammers presented at the Midlands Conference on Literature and Language, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1996.

"The Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Teaching on the Internet." Proceedings of the Small College Computing Symposium. St. Cloud State University, 1996.

"Corel Ventura 5.0" (review). TEXT Technology. 5: 119-136.

"Teaching British Lit Survey Via RDTN." presentation at the Western ADE Summer Seminar, Couer d'Alene, ID, 1994.

Editor. Proceedings of the 2nd Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature. Aberdeen, SD: Northern State University Press, 1994.


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