Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel

The Society of Multi-Ethnic Studies of the United States (MELUS), Modern Language Association, Association of Writing Professionals, Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association, Association of Fundraising Professionals

Basic Writers, Pop Culture, Service Learning, Asian Literature, Literary Journalism, Digitized Audio Commentary (on student essays), media composition

Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel is currently concluding work on her MFA in Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, at CSU Fresno. She is the current Co-Coordinator of Students of English Studies Association. She was the editor for the San Joaquin Review and former President of the San Joaquin Literary Association. Her essay "Mystery Spot" will be aired on local Fresno radio station KVPR's Valley Writers Read, 89.3 FM, on Jan. 7, 2009 at 7 p.m.

Dr. Mel Alexenberg

National Art Education Association (USA), International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology

art, art education, digital art, art & science, art & technology, Jewish studies, kabbalah, consciousness & culture, interdisciplianry learning

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.

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

History, sociology, history of science, literature, epistemology

Jean-Claude Guédon is Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Montréal

michele

AIGA, Cross Cultural Community of interest, Creative Business Enterprise

communications design, visual literacy, critical learning process, integrated design with a global perspective

Joan Vinall-Cox

Education, Technology, Communication

Joan Vinall-Cox focuses her teaching and her consulting business (JNthWeb) on the impact of Web 2.0 on learning and business.

Jo B. Paoletti

American Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, Costume Society of America, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

American Studies, Cultural Studies, Material Culture, Popular Culture, Critical Pedagogy

Jo Paoletti is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland.

Annie Harper

Annie Harper has a multidisciplinary background- education, design, marketing and IT. Annie is a sessional lecturer and is also director of Idea Nation founded on the principles of using designed thinking to generate ideas for people and organisations to create their futures.In 1995, Annie was a key initiator and sessional lecturer of new communication and peak performance subjects at RMIT University. Annie is an allied member and former committee member of the Institute of Store Planners, an international organisation representing professional retail designers and architects; is a former member of the Industry Steering Committee Executive ('86-2004) and Chairperson of the committee ('96-2000) working on Federal Government accreditation of RMIT's Diploma of Arts (Visual Merchandising) throughout the strategy & implementation phases. The RMIT course is now not only the national educational standard, it is also recognised throughout the world as a leading course for Visual Merchandisers. Throughout Annie's career she has been a powerful champion and lobbyist for retail design and visual merchandising to be given professional credence as specialised fields requiring tertiary qualifications. In 2002 she completed a Master of Business (Marketing) focussing on two streams of study – organisational development and transformation and consumer behaviour. Her research thesis subject was an investigation into colour, how it relates to purchase decisions and whether it could be found to impact consumer behaviour. Annie is a regular speaker at conferences and frequently contributes articles to industry publications. She is also a passionate advocate of programs to inspire and empower people, businesses and authorities to think and action potentially new and different ways of thinking.

Parme P. Giuntini

College Art Association, Art Historians of Southern California

Interdisciplinary approaches to fashion, identity, and culture, visual culture

Parme Giuntini is the Director of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design.

Todd Blake Finley

Technology, Social Software, English Education, Secondary Education

Todd Finley, PhD, is an associate professor at East Carolina University. Find out more at eeprof.com

Owen James

I am especially interested in blending online experiences into traditional teaching contexts to support and encourage language acquisition and greater learner motivation and autonomy through enhanced class community and active learner networking.

Susan Sipple

NCTE, MLA, NADE, OADE, OTYCA, OCTLA

Susan Sipple is an assistant professor of English at University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College in Blue Ash, Ohio. Her current research involves several projects investigating the differences between handwritten and audio instructor commentary on student writing in college composition and developmental writing classes.

Greta Vollmer

NCTE (including Council on English Education, College Composition & Communication), AERA, AAAL (AMERICAN Associaton of Applied Linguistics), IRA (International Reading Association)

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

Janet Swenson

NCTE, CEE, CCCC, NWP, IWCA

Writing/Rhetoric, English Education, Civic Engagement

Janet Swenson is director of the Michigan State University Writing Center and Red Cedar Writing Project, MSU's site of the National Writing Project.