Disciplinary Interests: science
Linda Sue Nelson
Information Literacy, Building ecollege website, Building wiki and social bookmarking for students, Pathfinders, Administrate library blog
Reference Services and Bibliographic Instruction at Scott Community College Library.
Dr. Mel Alexenberg
National Art Education Association (USA), International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Writing book 'How to Photograph God' based on student work in Israel (see blog www.photographgod.com)., Creating Facebook group 'Aesthetic Peace' (see blog www.aestheticpeace.blogspot.com)., In the tradition of Picasso's Guernica, creating and disseminiating webart to prevent genocide (see web artwork www.futureholocaustmemorials.org archived by Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York), Writing paper for the International Journal of Education through Art and a chapter in the book 'Digital Visual Culture' being published by the National Art Education Association
Mel Alexenberg lives in Israel where he is Founding Dean of a new School of Art and Multimedia at Netanya Academic College, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, Head of Programs in Art and Design, Emunah College in Jerusalem, and formerly Professor at Bar-Ilan University. In the USA where he was born and educated, he was Dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Associate Professor of Art and Education at Columbia University, and Research Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide, including: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Baltimore Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Malmo Museum in Sweden, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museo de Art Contemporaneo in Caracas, and Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He is author of the books: 'Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture' (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2008), 'Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art' (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass House, 2008) in Hebrew, 'The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness'(Intellect Books 2006), 'Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process' (Bar Ilan University Press), 'Light and Sight' (Prentice-Hall), and with Otto Piene, 'LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age' (MIT/Yeshiva University Museum). He was art editor of 'The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics', and has written numerous interdisciplinary papers.
Richard J. Urban, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Richard J. Urban
Richard is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a graduate research assistant for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project and as project assistant for the Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata. Previously he worked with the ECHO DEPository Project. Prior to returning to his graduate studies, Richard served as the Operations Coordinator for the Collaborative Digitization Program (aka Colorado Digitization Project), which assisted libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organizations providing online access to their collections.
David Bogen
American Association of Colleges and University, American Council on Education, American Sociological Association, International Communication Association, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, National Communication Association, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Society for the Social Study of Science
David Bogen received his B.A. in philosophy from Macalester College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. Since 1997, he has been the Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. He is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation(SUNY Press: 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews that explore the intersection of language, technology, and everyday orders of social practice. His most recent work focuses on social, organizational, and perceptual issues in the design of computer mediated interactive environments.
Wendy Gem
I recently completed research on using Geographic Information Systems, GIS in education., I am just beginning to study the negative impacts of using technology in the classroom and the marketing hype behind it.
Faculty of New Media
10 years experience in an academic environment including six in Information Technology
Janet Simons
-investigation of multimedia literacy and its relationship to learniing, -scholarly multimedia communication, -investigation of academic support models at the course level
Janet Simons is an instructional technologist at Hamilton College supporting the scholarship of teaching and faculty development programs. Janet specializes in tailored course designs that integrate technology and learning theory to achive specific learning goals.
Paul Richardson
Paul Richardson is E-Learning Asviser at the JISC Regional Support Centre Wales (UK)
Michael McLeod
Michael McLeod is an online trainer and Academic Technical Support Specialist at Trinity Western University
Jean-Claude Guédon
Canadian federation for the Humanities and the Social Sciences - VP (Dissemination of research), SDH/SEMI Society for Digital Humanities - Former co-chair
Jean-Claude Guédon is Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Montréal
Andrew R. Bonamici
American Library Association, EDUCAUSE, New Media Centers, Oregon Library Association, Frye Institute
Academic Support Partnerships, Learning Commons, Undergraduate Research Initiatives, Library Website Development, Disability Services
Andrew R. Bonamici is Associate University Librarian for Instructional Services at the University of Oregon
erica brownstein
Association of Science of Teacher Educators, National Science Teachers Association, American Educational Research Association, International Society for Technology in Education
Erica Brownstein is an associate professor of science education at Capital University and is also the Preservice Accreditation Coordinator for NSTA.
Steven John Thompson
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC), National Communication Association (NCA), Semiotic Society of America (SSA), The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism (SSSI)
Steven John Thompson teaches English 314: Technical Writing at Clemson University.
Liz Evans
Liz Evans is the Academic Computing Coordinator for the Natural Sciences at Swarthmore College.
Gary Wells
Gary Wells is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Ithaca College.
Sean Pollack
Sean Pollack has worked as a technologist at campuses in California while teaching writing and literature part time. He is now on the faculty of Pomona College as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Robert Lake
Paula Lackie
Outreach to data librarians in developing economies for IASSIST (social science data archives, delivery and support), Educational outreach for professional development for IASSIST members, ICPSR executive council member, Moodle implementation, ...
Paula Lackie is a long time social science data advocate and social science and humanities technologist at Carleton College.
Diane Klare
American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Library Instruction Group, Special Libraries Association
Diane Klare is the Head of Reference at Wesleyan University
Mark Gura
Senior Fellow - Center for Digital Education
