Presentations & Publications

I have a background in education as well as in art. I also worked for many years as a library professional. Here is information about some presentations I've given, publications I've been involved with, and organizations I participate in.

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PRESENTATIONS

Bioacoustic Archives: A World Tour, First Annual SIRLS Graduate Student Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (November, 2005)

Learners in a Changing Learning Landscape, Presidential Round Table participant, Association for Educational Communications and Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida (October, 2005)

Ways of Thinking, First International Colloquium on Building the Scientific Mind, The Hague, The Netherlands (May, 2005)

Adventures in an All-Electronic Library, with Thania Mayorga, Arizona Library Association Conference, Tucson, Arizona (October 2004)

Modeling Complex Systems with StarLogo, Prescott College Graduate Colloquium, Prescott, Arizona (May, 2004)

Resilience, with Marie Piebenga and June Covington, Prescott College Graduate Colloquium, Prescott, Arizona (February, 2003)

LifeDreams, Edge Charter High School, Tucson, Arizona (August, 2002)

PUBLICATIONS

"Alternative Education," "Esalen," "Gray Panthers," and "R. Buckminster Fuller" entries for Encyclopedia of American Counterculture , edited by Gina Misiroglu and Karen Karbiener. NY: M. E. Sharpe, in press.

"Modeling Complex Systems." Paper submitted to the Advanced International Colloquium on Building the Scientific Mind, The Hague, The Netherlands, May 17-20, 2005. Available online at: http://www.learndev.org

"Online Learning In Context." In Learners in a Changing Learning Landscape, edited by Jan Visser & Muriel Visser-Valfrey. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.

"Tumacacori Highlands" (painting). In Art in Wilderness. Tucson: Sky Island Alliance, 2007.

"What Do You Mean By Angry?" English Reader, premier issue (September, 2008).

Various local newspaper and newsletter articles.

Poetry in sundry journals, online and in print, including Saucy Vox and Conspiracy Theory

EDUCATION

· M.A. in education

· B.F.A. in dance, creative writing & studio art, English and university honors

· A.A.S. in interpreting for the Deaf, highest honors

AFFILIATIONS

National Coalition of Independent Scholars: www.ncis.org

The Learning Development Institute: www.learndev.org

The Cloud Appreciation Society: www.cloudappreciationsociety.org

The Freelancer's Union: www.freelancersunion.org

Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar: www.spogg.org

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I also work as a copyeditor and researcher. For more information about that, take a look at my other site,

Stirling Word Services: http://stirlingwordservices.com