Mary G. Filice

National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Midwest (NATAS), Independent Feature Project (IFP), Association of Women Journalists (AWJ), Convergence Chicago

Researching the impact of media convergence and mutlitasking on student learning and critical thinking. Chosen as a National CASTL Institute scholar (June 2009) focusing on this reserach., Conducting a break-out session at the 29th International Critical Thinking Conference (July 2009): Truthiness, Trust, and Technology: Critical Thinking in the Age of Convergence., Conduct a series of media literacy workshops for Split Pillow, an alternative filmmaking cooperative., Developing a multiplatform "film" based on August Strindberg's one-act The Stronger.

Mary Filice is tenure-track faculty and coordinator of the Media Concentration of the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management Department, Columbia College Chicago. As an independent filmmaker and consultant Mary recently assisted Percolator Films (formerly Reetime Film and Video Forum) on their first film festival, The Talking Pictures Festival, which took place in Evanston, IL May 1-3. Mary is also a media literacy advocate conducting a series of media literacy/filmmaking workshops for middle-school children in conjunction with the alternative filmmaking group Split Pillow. Mary has a MA in Film/Video from Columbia College and BA in Theater from Loyola University.

Bill Ellis, CPA

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, American Society for Training and Development

Clickers and multimedia in accounting education, significant learning, critical inquiry, accounting course design for non-traditional students, course development: governmental accounting, forensic accounting and fraud, accounting ethics

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.

Miriam Unruh

College Reading and Learning Association, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Miriam Unruh is the coordinator of the Learning Assistance Centre at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg).

Scott Simkins

POD, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IS-SOTL, American Economic Association

Investigating adaptability of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) discipline teaching and learning innovations for economics education (National Science Foundation grant DUE #04-11037.

Scott Simkins is Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of Economics at North Carolina A&T State University.