Joyce Johnston   Adjunct Professor   George Mason University   Fairfax, VA, USA

Office: 4220 Horizon Hall                     Email: jjohnsto@gmu.edu            Website:  http://mason.gmu.edu/~jjohnsto

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  Intellectual Property     Computer Assisted Instruction     Open Educational Resources     Net Neutrality     Online Civility     Plagiarism and Copyright in Electronic Environments

COURSE MATERIALS

SPRING 2025

Course Policies and Procedures Engh 302 - N07

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Course Schedule Engh 302 - N07

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Course Schedule Engh 302 - N29

UNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONS

    Founding member, Phi Beta Kappa of George Mason University, 2012 - present

    Innovations in Teaching and Learning Annual Conference. George Mason University, Fall 2024

• Weeklong Plan for Cultivating Classroom Respect (full session), Sept. 20, 2024
  
• An Interactive Tool to Promote a Positive Class Atmosphere (Teaching Talk). Sept. 20, 2024
  
• Presenter, Leading for Change: A Customizable Writing Experience.  Sept. 21, 2021
  
• Invited Panelist. Survival Tips for Teaching Online. Sept. 15, 2020

  Featured in  "Composition Faculty Publications: Recent Creative and Scholarly Works by Allen, Johnston, Goldenthal, and Paul,"
Composition Faculty Newsletter, Nov 2, 2020

  Instructor, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University

• Vanishing Worlds, pt. 2: Light Grows as Life Fades Above the Arctic Circle.  Sept. 13, 2024
• The Mysteries and Glories of the Moors in Spain. April 3, 3024
• The Enduring Enchantment of the Alhambra. March 27, 2024
• Rollicking Reconciliations.  Oct. 16, 2023
  
• This Thing of Darkness I Do Acknowledge Mine: How Anger Rules The Tempest.  Oct. 5, 2022
• Can Facebook Steal My Stuff? Your Intellectual Property Right on Social Media.  Oct, 15, 2020
• Vanishing Worlds, pt. 1: The Baltic Minorities: Bright, Beautiful and Almost Gone.  July 29, 2020
•  Facing the Dragon: Learning about Aging from Beowulf.  April 2018. Repeated by request July 2018 and March 2019.

   Member, Campus Learning Communities 

• Multimodal Composition (2020)
  
• Threshold Concepts (2019)
  
• Wellbeing (2018)

Three-year grant project for teaching research skills in English 302 using curated Open Educational Resources. Funded by Mason-4VA and

        The GMU College of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2018-2020

   Mental Health First Aid certificate, Spring 2019

CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS

    Can Facebook Steal My Stuff? Your Intellectual Property Rights on Social Media.  Virginia Siociety for Technology in Education.  Dec. 8, 2024.

    What’s a Librarian to Do When AI and Copyright Collide? Virginia Association of School LIbrarians. Nov. 6, 2024.

    Cultivating Respect in the Classroom.  EduLearn: 16th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. Online.  July 1-3, 2024. 

    What’s a Librarian to Do When AI and Copyright Collide? (Invited). Loudoun County Public Schools’ 2023 Librarians’ and ELA Professional Development. August 17, 2023.

    Training Students to Take Leadership in Social Change.  Council on Undergraduate Research’s ConnectUR 2023 Annual Conference.  Duquesne University,  Pittsburgh, PA. June 22, 2023.

    Is Blockchain the Future of Your Library? Internet Librarian 2022. Monterey, CA. Oct. 22, 2022.

Electronic Explosion: Five Crucial Copyright Changes since 2020. 2021 Virginia Association
           of School Librarians Fall Conference. Williamsburg, VA. Nov. 3-5, 2021.  Based on a presentation a
           Internet Librarian 2021, Monterey, CA. Oct. 26-28, 2021.

    “Leading for Change: A Customizable Writing Experience.” Proceedings of the Innovations in Teaching and Learning Annual Conference.  Vol. 13.

              Based on  presentations at ITL on Sept. 23, 2021, and  at EduLearn: International Conference on Education and New Learning
             Technologies.  Online.  July 5-6, 2021.

    Leading for Change on a Social or Professional Issue of Choice: A Customizable Writing Experience. Teacher to Teacher Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication.
              Online.  April 10, 2021.

    Keynote speaker. "Staying Legal in a Pandemic: Crucial Copyright Issues for Instruction."  Virginia Association of School LIbrarians Annual
        Conference.  Williamsburg, VA. Nov. 6, 2020.

Executive Committee member and Co-Chair,  Emerging Scholar Stream. EdMedia + Innovate Learning Annual Conference. 2012-present

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