Professional Organization: Reading

Paul T. Henley, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

Paul T. Henley

Membership Director

http://www.nitle.org

Engaging the Liberal Education community in thinking big.

Education, Future, Technology, Creative, Creativity, Higher Education, K-12, Unions, Administration, Liberal Arts, NITLE

See http://www.nitle.org/about/staff.php#henley

Dr. Preston VanLoon, Iowa Wesleyan College

Dr. Preston VanLoon

Associate Professor

EdD Northern Illinois University

Interpersonal Forgiveness, Curriculum, Alternative Educastion, Educational Psychology

Preston VanLoon is a Professor in the Education Division of Iowa Wesleyan College

Sheri Edwards, Nespelem School

Sheri Edwards

http://askwhatelse.wordpress.com/

Masters, Curriculum and Instruction; Eastern Washington University

Wiki Collaboration with Distant School, Preservice Teacher Mentors for Student Writing, Collaborative VoiceThreads

Collaborative Online Networks, Ethical and Responsible Networking Curriculum Development, Language Arts, Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Education Reform

Sheri Edwards, Middle School Teacher at Nespelem School, Washington State.

Amanda French, New York University

Amanda French

Digital Curriculum Specialist

http://amandafrench.net

M C Smith, Northern Illinois University

M C Smith

Professor of Educational Psychology

http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~smith

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

STEM Education teacher professional development

Adult literacy, Adolescent identity formation, STEM education, Teaching educational psychology, Adult development

M Cecil Smith is a professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University.

Miriam Unruh, University of Manitoba

Miriam Unruh

Coordinator, Learning Assistance Centre

http://www.umanitoba.ca/u1/lac

Working on Thesis in M.Ed. (Post-secondary Education)

Academic Writing, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Commons (primarily Learning Commons), Student Learning

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

Tatjana Chorney, Saint Mary's University

Tatjana Chorney

B.A. University of Belgrade; Hon. B.A. York University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Toronto (2003)

Cross-Cultural Communication and the WWW, Interactive reading, integrative learning

Assistant Professor of English at Saint Mary's University; researching 16th and 17th century English commonplace books in manuscript, the phenomenology of reading and the impact of hypertext on contemporary reading and learning habits; written essays on Donne and satire, Milton, multiculturalism and globalization, Shakespeare, Textual Criticsm and Reader-Response Theory.

Greta Vollmer, Sonoma State University

Greta Vollmer

Assistant Professor

PhD, 2000 UC Berkeley School of Education

Genre based pedagogy in secondary schools, esp content areas, Information technology in teacher education, National Writing Project

Genre studies, Composition theory and pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Narrative and new technologies

Linda Blatt, Central College

Linda Blatt

Associate Prof. of English and Director of the Center for Academic Excellence

Masters plus additional coursework

The teaching of reading and writing, the teaching of freshmen

Linda Blatt is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Academic Excellence at Central College in Pella, Iowa.

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.