Dr. Gerald Morse Santoro
Writings and Presentations
These are some of my writings, presentations and papers. I have many more that predate the time of easy online access. but I will try to find them.
Hendrick 2012 conference on adult and online learning.
2006 ACA/PCA Conference after my colleague, Andrea, notified me about pop culture conferences, I had a paper/presentation on the customizing of motorcycles as a sign of motorcycle culture.
2008 ACA/PCA Conference This conference was in San Francisco. my presentation/paper was about people making videos of their motorcycle adventures. I showed a few that I had made. At this convention I met two interesting people while standing outside the hotel to smoke. One was the President of the San Fran Dykes on bikes. The other was Sputnik, from Texas Motorcyclist Association. A real legend with his own seat in the texas legislature
Blurring the Lines - virtuality This is a presentation on using video to improve connection with students in online classes. I related 5 years of andexperiment in which i made a short video for each week of the class. Each video would be madein a different location around the campus or town. Students loved it!
Nathan McNeese (now a senior Professor at Clemson) and I worked on a paper examining the use of virtual reality for work-based groups. Much like the paper I did with Phillips, it cane down tohow the tech was used. Interestingly Virtual came in just behind F2F but ahdad of telephone conference.
This is a presentation I gave at another PCA/ACA conference on AI in pop culture versus reality. I would discuss the history of AI along with the history of AI in popular culture. I believe this is important because pop culture often reflects the feelings and fears of society.
A presentation I gave for IST Parents day one year I loved doing things like this, parents day, family weekends, etc. This is just an example of one.
This is a paper written by my adviser, Gerald M. Phillips and I. It is probably the biggest academic achievement of my career. We basically set the groundwork for the explosion of CMC technologies (email, chat, WEB, teleconferencing, etc.) by showing that group problem-solving produced results that were actually better than F2F groups. It comes down to how you manage them. Today cmc is firmly part of our education, business and socialization. My reward is having a tool that lets me play games with my grandkids online.
Our CMC work was recognized by the education community, if not The communications community. :-) Jerry Phillips told me that meant we were right because we were challenging all accepted paradigms regarding the use of tech and its utility in distributed team problem-solving. What is cool to me is that The people adapted their comm to the tech, but without sacrificing meaning. With a bit of practice and the right software anyone could do it.