Dr. Ludmila Smirnova

AACE, Kappa Delta Pi

Innovation, Web 2.0 environment, teaching with technology

Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y. Prior to coming to the U.S., she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. She played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools” in Southern part of Russia. A number of her Ph.D. students and scores of Masters students worked with her to produce comparative studies of successful innovative efforts in education. Dr. Smirnova has been a Montessori trainer, and has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia, Holland and the U.S. Moving to the U.S. in 2000, she brought this focus on innovation into the realm of emerging Web technology, where she quickly became recognized for her leadership in Web applications to education. She has used her own teaching to drive her learning, regularly offering such courses as Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching, Nature of Schools and Society and Teaching with Technology.

Greg Smith

Educause, NWACC

Greg Smith is the Chief Technology Officer at George Fox University beginning in June of 2004. Greg came to the Northwest from the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology in Indianapolis, IN. where he served as the Director of IT for 8 years. Prior to the IT career in Academia, Greg was a Systems Consultant with Hewlett-Packard primarily with the Analytical Group working out of San Francisco, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Other jobs included IT activity in the Oil Shale and Coal Mining industries of Colorado along with owning a computer store in Steamboat Springs, CO. Prior to the IT careers, Greg was a Chemist for various electric power generating companies.

Michael McLeod

Michael McLeod is an online trainer and Academic Technical Support Specialist at Trinity Western University

Annelie Rugg

educational technology, social computing, technology literacy, language of advertising

Paula Lackie

IASSIST, ICPSR, CODATA, Educause, NMC, NITLE, Campus Technologies

political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, religion, learning and teaching, data use

Paula Lackie is a long time social science data advocate and social science and humanities technologist at Carleton College.

Aaron Kerr

Aaron Kerr is the Supervisor of Web and Database Services at Alma College