Presentations

“Scaling Humanized Online Teaching in STEM Statewide.” Featured Presentation. Co-Presenter with Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Kim Vincent-Layton. Peralta Equity Conference 2024. 29 April 2024.

"Quiet Care: Five Gentle Ways to Interact with Online Students and Warm Online Learning." Keynote Presentation. Ventura Community College District Online Distance Education Summit. 7 March 2024.

"Using Microdata to Identify and Engage High Opportunity Students and Close Equity Gaps." Summer Professional Development Extravaganza (Plenary Session), Foothill College, 22 July 2020. 

"Humanizing the Online Experience: Engaging our Students Through Canvas." Featured Speaker. Skyline Community College, 11 October 2019.

"Five Ways Canvas Can Improve Student Success and Equity." Featured Speaker. Merced College's First Annual DE Summit. 11 January 2018.

“Leveraging Canvas to Improve Student Equity.” Keynote Presentation. College of the Canyons Online & Hybrid Retreat, 16 August 2017.

"Taking the Distance Out of DE." Great Teachers Retreat, Asilomar, 19 August 2016.

“Modern Poetry: Sylvia Plath.” Modesto PEN Society, 18 November 2009.

“Quick Pivots and Deep Work: How Yosemite Community College District’s Two Colleges Shifted to New ACCJC Standards and Completed Their ISERS in Seven Months.” Panelist with Elissa Creighton, Colin Thomas, Melissa Raby, and Patrick Bettencourt. Facilitated by Gohar Momjian. ACCJC Partners in Excellence Conference 2024. 10 May 2024.

"Let's Scroll! It's time to reconsider A6 'Page-level chunking' of the OEI Rubric." Co-Presenter with Roxie Christensen. Online Teaching Conference, Long Beach. 1 July 2022.

"Eight Elements of Humanized Online Teaching: Fostering inclusion & equity through online teaching." Co-Presenter with Michelle Pacansky-Brock. Online Teaching Conference, 23 June 2021. 

"The Humanizing Online STEM Academy: Fostering Inclusion and Equity through Faculty Development." Co-Presenter with Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Kim Vincent-Layton. DET/CHE conference, 2 December 2020.

"Developing and Strengthening Online Career Education…with Faculty Professional Development." Panel Presentation. California Virtual Campus - Online Education Initiative, Improving Online CTE Pathways Speaker Series. 10 November 2020.

"Identifying ‘High Opportunity’ Students Via Canvas Survey, and Providing Them Rich Feedback in the Canvas SpeedGrader."  Virtual Fall Institute, Stanislaus State University. 13 August 2020.  

"Humanizing Online Teaching in a World of Physical Distancing." Co-presenter with Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Kim Vincent Layton. OLC Ideate virtual conference. 1 May 2020.

"Humanizing: The Secret Sauce for Improving Equity Gaps in Online Education." Co-presenter with Fabiola Torres and Tracy Schaelen. Online Teaching Conference. Anaheim, CA. 18 June 2019.

"Humanizing: The Secret Sauce for Improving Equity Gaps in Online Education." Co-presenter with Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Tracy Schaelen. Online Learning Conference: Innovate. Denver, CO. 5 April 2019.

"Make Your Courses Sparkle with Adobe Spark." California Business Association Workshop, Modesto Junior College, March 23, 2019.

"Using Video to Enrich Content and Feedback in Canvas." California Business Education Association Conference, San Francisco, CA. 3 November 2018.

"Who's There?" Using Data and Analytics to Know Our Online Students." @ONE Online Network of Educators "First Fridays" webinar, 7 September 2018.

"Requiring Training in Online Pedagogy Before Online Course Assignments." California Community Colleges Distance Education Coordinators Organization monthly meeting, 20 April 2018.

"Reaching Into the Back Row: How Modesto Junior College Uses Canvas to Improve Student Equity." Education Technology Conference, Stanislaus State University, 24 January 2018. 

“Narrowing Equity Gaps with Canvas.” Can-innovate, Los Rios Colleges Educational Technology Conference, 14 August 2017.

“Top Five Ways to Leverage Your LMS to Improve Student Equity." Online Teaching Conference, Anaheim, June 2017.

"Course Design and the OEI Rubric" and "Assessment and the OEI Rubric," Applying the California Online Education Initiative Course Design Rubric workshop, Los Medanos College, 13 November 2015.

"Assessment and the OEI Rubric," Applying the Online Education Initiative Course Design Rubric workshop, Foothill College, 27 March 2015.

"Addressing Common Course Design Issues," OEI Professional Development Summit, San Diego, 20 February 2015.

"First Impressions: How to Make the Most of Week One Online," The Center, Google Hangout Live Streaming Presentation with Michele Pakansky Brock, 22 January 2014.

"MJC Online Instruction Program," DE Coordinators of California web meeting, 21February 2014.

"Teaching Online at MJC," Education Technology Conference, Stanislaus County Office of Education, February 22, 2014.

“Managing the Load: Assessing Student Writing in Blackboard Learn 9.1,” (webinar) Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series, 22 October 2012.