Disciplinary Interests: literacy
Jeremy Hoffman
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Kirstin Bratt
Kirstin Ruth Bratt is Assistant Professor of language arts and literacy at Penn State Altoona.
Jeremy W. Donald
Jeremy Donald is a reference/instruction and GIS/Government Documents librarian at the Trinity University Coates library in San Antonio, TX. He serves as the library liaison to the departments of Communication, Political Science, Economics, and Urban Studies.
Della Curtis
American Library Association, American Association of School Librarians, Internation Society for Technology in Education
Della Curtis is currently the Coordinator of the Office of Library Information Services for the Baltimore County Public Schools, the 24th largest school district in the United States. She is also a part time instructor at Towson University in the College of Education, Department of Instructional Technology and developer of many Maryland State Department of Education inservice courses for library media specialists and teachers. She received a B.A. degree from Salem-Teikyo University in Library Science, Secondary Education, and English (1968) and a M.S. degree from Towson University in Instructional Technology (1981). She has received many awards among which are: the 1998 Towson University's College of Education Dean's Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education; named by eSchool News as one of the top 30 technology leaders in the United States (Impact 30, 1999); the CyberAngels Distinguished Librarian (1998); Wired Kids Internet Safety Award (2002); the Baltimore County Public Schools' Outstanding Contributions Award (1996 an 1998); and, the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges (1964).
Among her many accomplishments as the leader of 166 school library media programs in Baltimore County Public Schools, she has provided the vision to launch school libraries into the Information Age. As early as 1981, she envisioned "libraries without walls" by connecting all secondary school libraries to online networks where students could located full text magazine and newspaper articles and other information for class assignments and research. By 1991, all school libraries were connected to the Internet, and, she along with a colleague, conducted a 30-hour staff development training program for 175 librarians to teach the technical aspects as well as how to utilize this powerful new technology for teaching and learning. In 1996, she provided leadership in the design and development of the county's first website - onLINE: The Librarians' Information Network for the Essential Curriculum < www.bcps.org/offices/lis >. She developed another comprehensive website to support school library media specialists in their roles as teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, and program administrator is the Baltimore County School Librarians' Online Procedures Manual < www.bcps.org/offices/lis/office >. In the July 2003 issue of School Library Journal, she was recognized in the Innovator's Spotlight feature article.
Celia Rabinowitz
M C Smith
American Educational Research Association, International Reading Association, National Reading Conference
M Cecil Smith is a professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University.
Annelie Rugg
Barbara Joseph
*Improving Literacy in Creole-influenced secondary students" also, **Child chat (conversational) skills of creole-influenced children as a base for Literacy learning**
A teacher who has worked throughout the education system in Trinidad and Tobago.
Research interests: Language and Literacy
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Lisa Bickmore
I teach writing at Salt Lake Community College.
Tony White
Art Libraries Society of North America, American Library Association, College Art Association, American Printing History Association, Visual Resources Association.
Steering Committee for the College Book Arts Association, Exhibition research on offset printed artists books, new course research and development.
Tony White is Assistant Professor and Art & Architecture Librarian at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
Edward H. Teague
Art Libraries Society of North America, Visual Resources Association, American Library Association, Society of Architectural Historians
Edward Teague, Head, Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon
Suzanne M.
Suzanne M. Risley, MLS, is the Vice President for Library and Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut
Mark Gura
Senior Fellow - Center for Digital Education
Ryan Cannon
Diane Graves
Diane Graves is Professor and University Librarian at Trinity University, San Antonio.
Diane Fulkerson
American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu, Phi Alpha Theta, American Historical Association, Georgia Library Association, Organization of America Historians
Diane Fulkerson is an Instruction Services/Special Collections Librarian at the University of West Georgia
Anne Balsamo
Managing Director, The Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC, "Science Mobilized" w/Onomy Labs Inc. (Menlo Park): Installation for the Liberty Science Center on the public communication of science news
ANNE BALSAMO serves as the Director of Academic Programs of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. She is also a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies. In addition to her academic positions, Anne has been a technologist and new media designer for more than a decade. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She held the rank of Principle Scientist, and served as project manager and new media designer for the development of RED's interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Prior to joining the research staff at PARC, Balsamo was an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she directed the graduate program in "Information Design and Technology.� Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new book project, Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination examines the relationship between cultural theory, the design of new media, and the ethics of technology development.
Richard Edwards
Podcasting: "Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir" http://outofthepast.libsyn.com, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Digital Literacy, Remix Culture and the Moving Image
Richard L. Edwards received his Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Saint Mary's College of California.
Leanne M. VandeCreek
Leanne M. VandeCreek is a Social Science Reference Librarian and the Ask-A-Librarian / Authentication Coordinator at Northern Illinois University.
