International
“Rules of Engagement in the Age of Wearable Technologies.” To be presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Berlin, Germany. October 5-8, 2016.
“Degrading marginalized populations in social networking environments.” Presented at the American Education Research Association Convention. Washington, DC. April 8-12, 2016.
Journal Roundtable for eJournal of Education Policy. Presented at the American Education Research Association Convention. Washington, DC. April 8-12, 2016.
“Where Experience Architecture and Internet Studies Meet: Fishing for Convergence.” Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Phoenix, Arizona. October 21-24, 2015.
“The changing landscape of wearable technologies.” Presented at the SIGDOC (ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication) conference in Limerick, Ireland. July 15-17, 2015.
“Disrupting Identity through the Materiality of Wearables.” Presented at the International Professional Communication Conference (IEEE ProComm). Limerick, Ireland. July 12-15, 2015.
“Engaging Globally Distributed Virtual Teams through Collaborative Environments.” Presented at the American Education Research Association Convention. Chicago, Illinois. April 16-20, 2015.
Journal Roundtable for eJournal of Education Policy. Presented at the American Education Research Association Convention. Chicago, Illinois. April 16-20, 2015.
“The roles of networked learning, collaboration, and connectedness in the classroom.” Presented at the International Professional Communication Conference (IEEE IPCC). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 13-15, 2014.
Journal Roundtable for eJournal of Education Policy. Presented at the American Education Research Association Convention. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 3-7, 2014.
“The Global Reach of Visual Communication: Pitfalls and Potentials.” Presented at the International Professional Communication Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 15-17, 2013.
“Technical communication education in a digital, visual world.” Presented at the International Professional Communication Conference. Orlando, Florida. October 8-10, 2012.
“Ethos to Presence: Canonical Transitions through Postcards.” Association of Internet Researchers. Seattle, Washington. October 10-13, 2011.
“Defining Online Anonymous Identity: a Content Analysis of PostSecret.com.” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Tempe, Arizona. October 21-22, 2011.
Trust and Identity in Internet Research. Association of Internet Researchers. Goteborg, Sweden. October 20-23, 2010.
National
“Agency, Affect, and Performativity in Visual and Material Rhetorics of Environment and Technology.” Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. May 27-29, 2016.
“Materiality and Digital Spaces as Agents of Rhetorics of Change.” Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. May 27-29, 2016.
“Ending the Shame: Harnessing Technology for a New Order.” To be presented at the Feminisms and Rhetorics 2015 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. October 28-31, 2015.
“Storytelling across the Curriculum: Multimodal Cultural Artifacts.” Presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 11-14, 2015.
“Materiality in the remediated postcards of PostSecret.com” Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. San Antonio, Texas. May 22-26, 2014.
“Teaching Technical Communication Tools Without Letting Them Take Over the Class.” Presented at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference. Cincinnati, Ohio. October 10-12, 2013.
“Online Collaborative Learning Environments.” Presented at The 2013 Teaching Professor Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. May 31-June 2, 2013.
“Going Public: Composing New Boundaries of Public and Private Discourses.” Presented at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, Nevada. March 13-16, 2013.
“WRIT VID: Integrating Multimodal Components in an Online Writing Class.” Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing. Mankato, Minnesota. November 9, 2012.
“Reasons, Challenges, and Successes for Experimenting with New Media: Google+ Hangouts.” Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing. Mankato, Minnesota. November 9, 2012.
“Sherpas on the Digital Mountain: The New Pedagogy of the Decentralized Writing Classroom.” Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing. Mankato, Minnesota. November 9, 2012.
“Multimodality in the Writing Classroom: Podcasting in Four Acts.” Computers and Writing 2011. Ann Arbor, Michigan. May 19-22, 2011.
“Digital Activism and Witness in a Global Public.” Computers and Writing 2011. Ann Arbor, Michigan. May 19-22, 2011.
“Rhetorics of Trust and Identity.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 28-31, 2010.
“Re/Composing Communities: Technological Disruption in Shifting Publics.” Computers and Writing 2010. West Lafayette, Indiana. May 20-23, 2010.
“(Re)mediating Social Technologies: Mobility, Twitter, Facebook, and Podcasting in Learning Spaces.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, California. March 11-14, 2009.
“Digitize This!: Self Constructions in Second Life, MySpace, and Hybrid Pop Culture Courses.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2-5, 2008.
State
“Wikis in the NAU Community.” 2007 NAU e-Learning Institute. Flagstaff, Arizona. May 23, 2007.
“Google Tools for the Academic Professional: Introduction to Google Tools for the Classroom.” 2007 NAU e-Learning Institute. Flagstaff, Arizona. May 22, 2007.
“Lili-G: Defining a Blogger’s Identity through Textual and Visual Rhetoric.” Peaks Conference: Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, Arizona. March 9, 2007.
Invited
“Materiality in the remediated postcards of Postsecret.com.” English Colloquium. Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland. April 13, 2014.
“Building successful letters of application and CVs.” Second Annual Dr. Steve Lapan Doctoral Forum. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. April 11-12, 2014.
2012 U-Spatial Symposium. Live Tweeter/Blogger. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 22, 2012. <http://uspatial.umn.edu/>
“A Dialogue and Roundtable Discussion with Anne Wysocki and Dennis Lynch.” Discussion Leader. Literacy and Rhetorical Studies Speaker Series. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 28, 2012.
“Social Seeing: Images Online – a talk by George Oates.” Respondent. Digital Humanities 2.0 colloquium. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 15, 2011.
“Using Social Media.” Invited. 2010 Spring Symposium: The Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in the Food Industry. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Spring 2010.
“Social Media in the Classroom.” Century College. Saint Paul, Minnesota. Fall 2009.
“Constructing Identity in Online Classrooms.” Southwest Institute for Learning with Technology 2008. Flagstaff, Arizona. May 2008.
“Constructing Identity in Online Communities.” Faculty Development session. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. April 2008.
“Google Tools for the Service Professional: Introduction to Google Tools for the Office.” Invited by the NAU Service Professional Advisory Council 2007 Summer Conference: Mountains of Possibilities. Flagstaff, Arizona. May 16, 2007.
“Introduction to Blogs.” 2006 NAU e-Learning Institute. Flagstaff, Arizona. May 24, 2006.
Guest Lecturer
“Postcards and PostSecret.” Guest lecturer for HSem 3067H Honors Seminar: Digital Literacies. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fall 2011.
“Wikis and Graduate Research in Online Spaces.” Guest lecturer for Writ 3577: Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fall 2009.
“Social Media.” Guest lecturer for LS 5100: Writing on and For the Web. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Summer 2009.
“Identity in Online Communities.” Guest lecturer for Comm101: Communication Analysis. Flagstaff, Arizona. Spring 2008.
“Introduction To Education Technologies: Using Audacity”. Guest lecturer for ETC320: Introduction to Education Technologies. Flagstaff, Arizona. Spring 2008.
“Technology in the English 105 Classroom.” Guest lecturer for Eng105: Critical Reading and Writing in the University Community. Flagstaff, Arizona. Spring 2008.
“Technology in the English 105 Classroom.” Guest lecturer for Eng105: Critical Reading and Writing in the University Community. Flagstaff, Arizona. Fall 2007.
Workshops
Ongoing workshop presentations in the areas of Blackboard Vista, Creating Web Pages with Word, and Dreamweaver 8. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. 2005-2007.
Workshop presentations in the areas of Blackboard Vista Shells, Creating Web Pages with Word, and Dreamweaver 8. Northern Arizona University, Tucson, Arizona .2007
Non-Scholarly Activities
Exhibit: Photography
Armfield, Dawn M. Stars Among Us. 31 Oct. 2014. Exhibit. Church of Art, Hotchkiss, CO.