Silvia-Adriana Tomescu

Information Science, Higher education, E-learning, Cognitive Flexibility

Bucharest University Letters Faculty PHD Humanities Magna cum laude

Sandra Holllin Flowers

Academuic writing, digital design, African American literature, African American and American history.

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Diana Chapman Walsh

Diana Chapman Walsh was president of Wellesley College from 1993-2007. Formerly, she was a professor and department chair at the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently she is trustee, director, or member of governing and advisory boards including the MIT corporation, the Broad Institute, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, and the Washington University at Saint Louis Institute of Public Health.

Loretta McGrann

AACU, AAUP, MLA, NAACP, American Studies Association, AAUW

American Literature, African-American Literature, Writing

Dr. Loretta McGrann is the Provost at St. Joseph's College, New York. Her discipline is American Literature, but she has been in administration for the last sixteen years.

Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel

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

Service Learning, African American and Asian Literature, Literary Journalism, Digitized Audio Commentary (on student essays), media composition, postsecondary reading.

Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel recently obtained her MFA in Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and Certificate of Advanced Study in Composition from CSU Fresno. As of fall 2010, she will be teaching English Composition at the University of Nevada, Reno as a term lecturer. While a graduate student, she was the past president of Students of English Studies Association and the San Joaquin Literary Association. She was the creative nonfiction editor for the 2005 issue of the San Joaquin Review. She also served on the Campus Advisory Fees Committee and Task Force for Graduate Culture. Her essay "Mystery Spot" aired on local Fresno radio station KVPR's Valley Writers Read, 89.3 FM, on Jan. 7, 2009 and is available online.

Annie Harper

Color research and theory, Communication, Consumer behaviour

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.

Trent Batson

AAEEBL, Sakai

Discourse analysis, rhetoric and composition

English professor at Michigan State, George Washington University, Gallaudet University, Carnegie Mellon; academic technology director at Gallaudet and University of Rhode Island. Communications Strategist, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, MIT. Editor, Campus Technology web 2.0 newsletter. Chair of the Board, The Open Source Portfolio Initiative. Director, Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning.

Rachel Payne

MLA, TESOL, NERALLT, AATSP, ACTFL

Contemporary Latin American women’s literature, Trans-Atlantic studies, Multi-media in the L2 classroom, Pedagogical Approaches to Immigration, Service-Learning and Spanish acquisition, Contemporary Hispanic Film

Rachel Payne is a Doctor of Modern Languages candidate at Middlebury College

Sheri Edwards

Association for Supervision of Curriculum and Development, National Council for Teachers of English, International Reading Association, Phi Kappa Phi, Choice Literacy, Classroom 2.0

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.

Joan Vinall-Cox

Education, Educational Web Applications, Multi-Modal Communication

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

Ellen L Nuffer

assessment in the classroom, school law, history and foundations of education, developing critical thinking and writing skills in first year students

Ellen L. Nuffer, Ed.D., is a school psychologist and Professor of Education at Keene State College, a public liberal arts college in New Hampshire.

Alexandra Juhasz

documentary, activist media, feminist film, YouTube, AIDS

Alexandra Juhasz is a Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College.

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 Head of the School of the Arts at Emuna College in Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, 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, Jewish Museum in Prague, 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.

Robert Hill Long

Robert Hill Long is a poet and the Assistant Director of Faculty Development at the University of Oregon.

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

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.

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.