CURRICULUM VITAE
J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Digital Rhetoric, ePortfolio & Pedagogy

• "The Digital Now: The Cyberspace Transformation of Education Today," Connecticut Film Festival, CTFF Interactive, Danbury, CT (6 June 2009)
• “Digital Media Strategies to Enhance Instruction through Gaming, E-Portfolios, and Second Life,” Keynote Address. Summer Technology Institute, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA (28 May 2009)
• “Assessment, in a Word, is Good: Taking the Next Step in Student-Centered Assessment ” Keynote Address, Basic Skills Conference, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA (24 April 2009)
• “From Paper to Screen:  Are We Still Having This Conversation?  Transforming a Writing Program One Classroom at a Time,” College Composition and Communication Conference, San Francisco, CA (11-14 March 2009)
• "Teaching in Second Life," presenting on-line as Arachnid Gufler in the "Second Life: A Virtual Classroom for the Digital Generation," American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Orlando, FL--presented from New York, on-line--(20 November 2009)
  
• "Rhetoric in the 21st Century: The Digital Imperative," The International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida (14-18 April 2008)
• "Wrestling with Writing:  Using ePortfolios to Enhance and Assess Basic Writing" with Professor Marisa Klages, Dr. Heidi Johnsen, and Dr. Kenneth Monteith at the Making Connections ePortfolios, Integrative Learning, and Assessment Conference, LaGuardia Community College (10 April 2008)
• "Reclaiming the Classroom:  Two Year Colleges and Innovative Self-Assessment" with Professor Marisa Klages, Professor Linda Chandler, and Dr. Michelle Pacht at the College Composition and Communication Conference, New Orleans, LA (3-5 April 2008)
  
• "First-Year Academies: Facilitating Engagement and Success in the First Year of College: An Update," with Dean Paul Arcario at the 2008 Community College Futures Assembly, Orlando, Florida (26-29 January 2008)
• "Do Portfolios Really Need the 'e'?" National Council of Teachers of English Convention (NCTE) ISTE Session, New York City, NY (16 November 2007)
  
• "A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: CUNY and Beyond," with Dr. Lenore Beaky, Dr. Gail Green-Anderson, Dr. Gordon Tapper, Dr. Heidi Johnsen, and Professor Marisa Klages at the College Composition and Communication Conference, New York City, NY (21-24 March 2007)
• "First-Year Academies: Facilitating Engagement and Success in the First Year of College," 2007 Bellwether Award Winning Presentation with Vice-President Peter Katopes, Dean Paul Arcario and Assistant Dean Bret Eynon at the 2007 Community College Futures Assembly, Orlando, Florida (28-30 January 2007)
• “Electronic Portfolios, Writing Classrooms, and College Programs: Practices, Theories, Issues, and Challenges,” with Dr. Michael Day, and Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey as Co-Leaders of the 2006 WPA Assessment Institute, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (13 July 2006)

• Building Community in Basic Writing: LaGuardia Community College's First Year Experience Academies," with Professor Marisa Klages and Dr. Gail Green-Anderson at the Conference on Basic Writing Preconference (CCCC): Creating Access with Basic Writing--Successful Programs at Community Colleges, Chicago, Illinois (16 March 2006)
• "A Community of Communities," with Dr. Phyllis Van Slyck, Dr. C. Jason Smith, and Professor Nancy Gross at the Making Connections:  CUNY ILP Conference, LaGuardia Community College (6 May 2005)
• "First-Year Thematic Academies, Integrated Learning, and Learning Communities,” with Dean Paul Arcario and Professor Nancy Gross at the League for Innovation in the Community College Conference, New York, New York (6-9 March 2005)
• “ePortfolios and the First Year Academies: Radically Reconstructing Success in the First Year,” with Assistant Dean Steve Greenfeld at the Annual Conference on the First Year Experience, Phoenix, Arizona (4-8 February 2005)
• “ePortfolios and Creative Accountability: A Means of Integrated Learning and Assessment,” with Dean Paul Arcario, Assistant Dean Bret Eynon, Vice-Provost Terrel Rhodes, Dr. Judith Patton and Mr. Nakiso Maodza at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, California (25-29 January 2005)
• “ePortfolio @The World’s Community College,” with Dr. Bret Eynon and Professors Maureen Doyle, Nancy Gross and Nakiso Maodza at the American Association for Higher Education Conference, San Diego, California (1-4 April 2004)
• “Teaching in a Time of War,” 5th International Conference: Marxism and the World Stage, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (6-8 November 2003)
• "Pushing Past the Perimeter: LaGuardia Community College, ePortfolios, Collaboration and Connection," Featured Speaker Presentation at College Composition and Communication Conference, New York City, NY, presented with the LaGuardia Community College ePortfolio Research Team (19-22 March 2003)
• "Degrees of Significance: Community College Options," Associated Writing Programs Conference, Baltimore, Maryland (26 February-1 March 2003)
• "Transforming the Margins: LaGuardia Community College, ePortfolios, Collaboration and Connection," Community College Humanities Association Conference, New York City, NY, presented with the LaGuardia Community College ePortfolio Research Team (24-26 October 2002)
• "Living in History: Learning and Teaching in New York After 9/11," 37th Annual Two Year College English Association Conference, Portland, Maine, presented with Dr. Cecilia Macheski (10-12 October 2002)
• "More Than the Colonial IBM Thinkpad: The LINK Alternative," Session Chair and Presenter, College Composition and Communication Conference, Chicago, Illinois (April 1998)

J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D. (lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu)
Professor of English
Office: E-103 H in The Department of English
Phone:718.482.5665
Summer 2009 Office Hours

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