Presentations
What Difference Does It Make? Implications of Neuroscience for Education — University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. (May 2011)
Layoff of My Persuade Shoes — American Advertising Federation, Amarillo, Texas. (April 2009)
Cognitive Language Skills for the 21st Century — National Workshop on General Semantics, Centre for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Gujurat, India. (November 2007)
What We Could Become: The General Semantics Influence — Heinlein Centennial, Kansas City, MO. (July 2007)
A Critical Awareness and Self-Learning Program for AP English — National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN. (November 2006)
Rock-Paper-Scissors, Words-Meanings-People: The limited, and unlimited, powers of language — 5th Annual Denton (TX) Area Conference of the Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading in Denton, TX. (September 2006)
De-Mythifying Meaning — National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis, IN. (November 2004)
Calling Out the Symbol Rulers — First Annual Berman Lecture, Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV. (October 2004)
How to Size Your Thinking Box — National Management Association, Rockwell Collins Chapter, Richardson, TX. September 2000.
The Language of Awareness — Language Resource Center, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN. (September 2000)
General Semantics Demonstrations and Exercises:
- The Benham Disc
- Count the Black Dots
- Dimples or Bumps?
- An Uncritical Inference Test
- Time-binding Timeline exercise
- Three Buckets exercise
- A Listening exercise
General Semantics Class Presentations:
- Basic Understandings of GS
- Fundamental Principles of GS
- Genres and Other Categories
- Does Perception = Reality?
- PR vs. Propaganda
- Preparation for “The F Word”
- The Last Class
Institute of General Semantics Marketing and Promotional Materials