Here are a col­lec­tion of some of the papers I have presen­ted thus far. They are shared as PDF files, hope­fully by now people know what a PDF is and we can dis­pense with the old acrobat reader is avail­able here state­ment. I would how­ever note that you can choose “save to disk if you would rather read the paper off­line or avoid open­ing it with an acrobat-assisted browser window.

Saints, Sin­ners, Brew­ers and Pub­lic­ans: Drink­ing in Guelph Before Pro­hib­i­tion
Lec­ture for the Guelph Museums, Octo­ber 11, 2007
Was Guelph a Drinkin’ Town? Start­ing from this seem­ingly inno­cous ques­tion, we’ll take a look at the evid­ence to dis­cover whether it was indeed more wet than other towns in Ontario, as a num­ber of his­tor­i­ans habe sug­ges­ted.
Present­a­tion File available

The Recipe as a Meta­phor
CaStA 2006 — Uni­ver­sity of New Brun­swick, Octo­ber 13, 2006
The chal­lenge of provid­ing self-guided instruc­tional tools for diverse sets of exper­i­ences, needs and ways of inter­act­ing with com­puters remains a chal­lenge for those pro­du­cing tools. This art­icle describes the way in which the recipe-based method can provide a use­ful meth­od­o­logy for instruc­tion in diverse human­it­ies com­put­ing chal­lenges.
Present­a­tion File