Presentations and Workshops

Web-Accessible Presentations:

Several presentations modified for web-viewing are accessible here

Upcoming:

Worcester Academy, Worcester, MA, October, 2009
Keynote Speaker - Professional Development Day (private event)

Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS) - Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, November 5-6, 2009, Featured Speaker

  • 1:1 Laptops: Implications for School Systemic Change
  • A Peek Inside a Fully Integrated Technology Rich School
  • Creating a Web-Based Civil Rights Oral History Project

National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, (NAIS), San Francisco, Feb., 2010

  • Peek Into the School of the Future (3–hour workshop)

Smartboard Use to Support Learning for All (TBA, early 2010, San Jose, CA)

Select Past Presentations:

Center for Innovative Teaching, The Urban School of San Francisco, July/August, 2009

McComb School District, McComb, MS, July, 2009
Digital Filmaking Workshop - 3-days (private professional development)

iSummit '09, Coalition of Lighthouse Schools - Annual 1:1 Laptop Conference, Memphis, TN, July 8-10, 2009

    • Featured Speaker, Administration Track

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Washington, DC, June, 2009

  • Telling Their Stories: The Oral History Archives Project, Global Gallery, Sunday, 6/28/2009, 7:00pm–9:00pm
  • 1:1 Laptops and Seamless Integration: Peek into the Frontier, Monday, 6/29/2009, 12:30pm–1:30pm

Northern Regional Meeting, California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) , Oakland, March 9, 2009

  • Producing Web-Based Civil Rights Oral Histories
  • Mississippi and Beyond: Creating a Civil Rights Oral History Project
  • The Future is Now: A Peak Inside a Fully Integrated Technology Rich School

National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, (NAIS), Chicago, February, 2009

Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Oral History in the 21st Century Classroom (full day workshop), Pittsburgh, October, 2008

Center for Innovative Teaching, The Urban School of San Francisco, July/August, 2008

The Society of American Archivists, Oral History Section Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 29, 2008, Guest Speaker

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), San Antonio, June, 2008

Building Global Communities Technology Conference 2008, Honolulu, June 9-10, 2008

Holocaust Forum, National Holocaust Memorial Museum and UCS Shoah Foundation Institute, Los Angeles, April 3-5, 2008
An Approach to the Use of Oral Testimonies presentation_icon

Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, March, 2008
Integrating Laptops: Urban School Model (private event)

National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, (NAIS), New York, March, 2008

2007 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, October, 2007

  • Telling Their Stories: Producing Web-based Digital Video Interviews - full-day workshop
  • The Digital Video Generation: Practicality and Efficacy of Student Produced Oral Histories - panel moderator

Laptop Institute, Memphis, July, 2007

  • Implementing an Integrated Apple Laptop Program – Laptop Institute Mentor
  • Best Practices Track – The Urban School – 8 Urban School teachers led workshops throughout the conference

The Willows Community School, Culver City, CA, July, 2007
Oral History Workshop (private event)

Center for Innovative Teaching, The Urban School of San Francisco, July/August, 2007
Telling Their Stories: Producing Web–based Digital Video Interviews, 3–day workshop, July 30-Aug 1, 2007

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Atlanta, June, 2007
Making the Laptop Disappear: Moving to Seamless Integration

NAIS 2007 Annual Conference, National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), Denver, 2007
Laptops Unleashed: An Integrated Approach to 1:1 Computing (3–hour workshop)
Co–presented with Mark Salkind, Head of School.

Northern Regional Meeting, California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) , Atherton, March 19, 2007

The Tech Forum, Seattle, November 2, 2006
Learning With Digital Video (pdf)

The Nueva School, Hillsborough, CA, October 30, 2006
Making the Laptop Disappear: Moving to Seamless Integration

Bay Area Deans Meeting, San Francisco, October 23, 2006
Teen Social Networks in the Age of 2.0

The Foothill Country Day School, Claremont, CA, September, 2006
All-Faculty Professional Development Workshop

The Urban School Center for Innovative Teaching, 3–day workshop, August 13–16, 2006
Telling Their Stories: Producing Web–based Digital Video Interviews

Facing History and Ourselves, Holocaust and Human Behavior Institute, San Mateo, August 11, 2006.
Oral History in the Making

International Oral History Association World Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2006
Using Digital Video to Produce & Publish Oral Histories on the Web
Read the paper or view the presentation slides

Anytime Anywhere Learning Conference (AALF), Boston, 2006
Making the Laptop Disappear

California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) Annual Meeting, Santa Barbara, 2006
Making the Laptop Disappear

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) National Conference, Boston, 2006
Making the Laptop Disappear: Moving to Seamless Integration

Bay Area Laptop mini–Conference, San Francisco, 2006
Making the Laptop Disappear: Moving to Seamless Integration
Listen to the podcast. Click to play file or right click to save to desktop.

Digital Storytelling Festival, Legacy Stories panel member, San Francisco, 2005.

Laptop Institute, lead keynote speaker, Memphis, 2005
Making the Laptop Disappear: Moving to Seamless Integration

Ed–Media, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Montreal, 2005
Authentic Doing: Using Digital Video to Produce & Publish Oral Histories on the Web
Received Outstanding Poster Award.

California Association of Independent Schools Northern Regional Meeting, Atherton, 2005

  • Implementing an Integrated 1:1 Laptop Program
  • Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) National Conference, Montreal, 2004
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project

Laptop Institute, Memphis, 2004

  • Laptops Unleashed!
  • Using Digital Video to Produce & Publish Oral Histories

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), New Orleans, 2004
Using Digital Video to Produce & Publish Oral Histories

California League of High Schools (CLHS), Monterey, 2004
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project

National School Boards Association (NSBA) T+L Conference, Anaheim, 2003
Implementing Laptops

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Seattle, 2003
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) National Conference, San Francisco, 2002
Implementing Wireless

California Association of Independent Schools Northern Regional Meeting, Atherton, 2001
Implementing Wireless