Disciplinary Interests: Social media

Amy E. Hays, Texas A&M University - Texas AgriLife Extension

Amy E. Hays

Emerging Technologies Specialist

http://irnr.tamu.edu

eXtension (www.extension.org)

Emerging technologies and the Cooperative Extension Model, SoME - Social Media for Education

Lena Henderson, York St John University

Lena Henderson

YSJ CETL Co-ordinator

MSc in Multimedia and e-Learning, Huddersfield

Students as Researchers, Collaborative projects for YSJ practitioners

Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Sue Beckingham

Educational Developer

Associate Fellow of the Staff and Educational Developers Association - http://seda.ac.uk

Sue Beckingham is an Educational Developer at Sheffield Hallam University

Christopher D. Sessums, University of Florida

Christopher D. Sessums

Post Doctoral Associate

http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog

AERA, ISTE, ALT

Investigating the adoption of new digital media strategies and tools in the classroom from both teacher and administrator perspectives

Christopher D. Sessums is a post doctoral associate in educational technology in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida's College of Education.

Sean Nash, Saint Joseph School District

Sean Nash

Instructional Coach

http://nashworld.edublogs.org

BS Biology, MAEd

NSTA, ISTE, STOM

My school's professional learning network for staff: http://virtualsouthside.ning.com, A network for biology/ life science educators worldwide: http://thesynapse.ning.com, My high school biology course network for: http://mwsu-bio101.ning.com, My marine biology program network: http://stjoeh2o.ning.com

Sean Nash is currently a generalist instructional coach leading a community of learners at Benton High School in Saint Joseph, Missouri who are exploring learner-centered constructivism through emerging technologies. He is also a classroom instructor of Marine Biology and Principles of Biology (Dual-Credit Biology).

Michael Galvin, George Mason University

Michael Galvin

Dir. Electronic ULife Services

BA Human Communications, UW-Madison, '83; MAIS Higher Ed Admin./Student Affairs, '08

Academic Commons is a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology and networked information support the current project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated? Learn more.