Presentations
| Birmingham Literary Council, Birmingham, AL (October 2010) | |
| ESOL Educator Conference for Volunteer-Based Programs | |
| Keynote Speaker, People on board: Handle with Care | |
| Southeast TESOL Regional Conference, Miami, FL (September 2010) | |
| Spiraling Up Oral Presentation Skills: From First Introduction to Elevator Speech | |
| TESOL Denver, CO (March 2009) | |
| Creating Communities of Confidence: Designing Individualized Curricula for Postdoctoral | |
| Researchers. Colloquium with S. Tipton, D. Braasch | |
| Southeast TESOL Regional Conference: Birmingham, AL (September 24-27, 2008) | |
| Higher Education Roundtable: Issues in Graduate Level Testing | |
| Higher Education Roundtable: 1) Writing Assessments and Support Classes, 2) Oral | |
| Language Assessments and Support Classes | |
| Higher Education Roundtable: Discussion Groups on Classroom Practice | |
| Using Literature to Connect to Commonalities in Multicultural Experiences | |
| TESOL Conference, Seattle, WA (2007) | |
| Expanding Chinese Physicians' English Presentation Skills | |
 Dr. Olmstead working with small groups to develop skills in English speaking and problem based learning. |
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| Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Writing Series: 2-hour workshops | |
| Writing with Style(s), November 2006 | |
| Constructing an Academic Argument, February 2007 | |
| Analyzing and Producing Appropriate Discourse, March 2007 | |
| Using Sources Effectively and Avoiding Plagiarism, March 2007 | |
| Writing and Citing Right, April 2007 | |
| Presenting the Professional Self, August 2007 | |
| Washington Area TESOL Conference, Catholic University of America (2006) | |
| Literature as a Pathway to Excellence in Multicultural Education | |
| South East Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), Auburn University, AL (2006) | |
| How Code-Switching in Mandarin and English Contributes to a Situated Definition of | |
| Ethnicity and Race | |
| The Writing Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville (2006) | |
| Issues in Second Language Writing for Writing Center Consultants | |
| World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Madison, WI (2005) | |
| Code-Switching in Mandarin-English Family Conversations: Constructing Sociability | |
| Together | |
| Alabama-Mississippi TESOL Conference, Florence, AL (2005) | |
| Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Teaching Tolerance in ESL | |
| South East Conference On Linguistics (SECOL), Roanoke, VA (2004) | |
| Language and Identity Section, Constructing Sociability through Code-Switching in | |
| Mandarin-English Family Conversation | |
| South East Conference On Linguistics (SECOL), Memphis, TN (2002) | |
| Issues in Developing English Medical Writing Skills | |
| Alabama-Mississippi TESOL Conference, Gadsden, AL (2001) | |
| Empowering Students to Recognize and Produce Features of English Intonation | |
| Medical English Workshops | |
| Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan: | |
| Presenting the Professional Self, July 14, 2007 and July 4, 2008 | |
| Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan: | |
| 35 hour workshops, 25-30 bio-medical researchers and physicians attendees | |
| Professional Bio-Medical Writing for Publication, January 3-7, 2007 | |
| Using English to Teach Medical Subjects, July 12-17, 2007 | |
| Writing for Publication; Teaching in English, January 14-18, 2008 | |
| Language Coaching; Writing for Publication, June 26-July 2, 2008 | |