Projects: blogs
Todd Bryant
Language Program Administrator
Dickinson 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 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.
Laura Blankenship
Laura is Senior Instructional Technologist in Information Services at Bryn Mawr College. She is completing her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition with a focus on using technology in writing instruction this May.
Bryan Alexander
Ourmedia Advisory Board, New Media Consortium Horizon Project Advisory Board member, Rheingold Associates, MLA (sporadically)
Bryan Alexander is Director for Emerging Technologies at NITLE, where he researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts colleges. His specialties include digital writing, weblogs, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, wireless culture and teaching, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Tech News and Smartmobs, when not creating digital learning objects. A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he has also taught English and information technology studies at Centenary College.
Alan Levine
Since 1992, Alan Levine has been an Instructional Technologist in the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, located at the district office for the Maricopa Community Colleges in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. With degrees in Geology (none in computers!), he is completely a self-taught techie and has managed to teach computer animation classes as well.
He coordinates system wide technology task forces, such as "Ocotillo", consults with faculty on integrating technology, and develops special projects in multimedia and web technologies. His projects include on-line tutorials such as "Writing HTML", online application/review systems for internal faculty grants and faculty professional growth programs, web resources such as "Community College Web", "Multimedia Authoring Web", and "Director Web" and innovative projects such as the Maricopa Learning eXchange, Feed2JS, and the "Hero's Journey" storytelling web site.
Back in October 1993, Alan launched the first web server in Maricopa running on a humbler Mac Se/30. A more recent project is the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), online virtual warehouse of innovation at Maricopa as well as recent experimentation with weblogs, wikis, RSS, podcasting, connecting learning objects with trackback, "rip-mix-learn", "small technologies loosely joined", digital storytelling, and "social" technologies.
Cyprien Lomas
Educause, Association Computing Machinery, Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Educause Learning Initiative
Cell Biology, Science, Teaching and Learning, Educational Technology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Emerging Technologies
Cyprien Lomas is an Educause Learning Initiative Fellow and the Director of The Learning Centre in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
Suzanne Aurilio
Chris Kimball
Chris Kimball is Provost and Dean of Augsburg College.
Thomas Pitre
Online News Association, Clallam and Jefferson Counties Science Technology and Manufacturing Association (STMA), Sequim PC User's Group, World Future Society, Sequim Retired Scientists Club and PC SIG, Strait Macintosh User's Group, California Council for Adult Education, Club of 1000 Center for Futures Research, USC, Los Angeles CA, Office of the Future Panel BSI New York, Director Education SeniorNet San Jose CA, Society of Automotive Engineers, Educational Futurists ASCD Portland OR, Phi Delta Kappa Educational Fraternity Berkeley CA, International Society for Technical Education, American Society for Training and Curriculum, Quality Distance Education Coordinator University of Wisconsin QDE Program, Advocates for Remote Employment and the Virtual Office (AREVO), Association for Corporate Computing Technical Professionals (NASPA), Brain-Based Education Network St. Paul MN, Member IDC Mobile Advisory Council, Volunteer Technology Industry Cluster Economic Development Council Clallam County, The Fovea Group Sequim WA
Computers, Graphics, Technology, Communications, Creativity, Business Education, Business development
Retired professor of business and education, City University, National University, et. al.
Former Master Instructor, City University, Santa Clara office, Silicon Valley.
Adult Education Instructor in San Francisco Bay Area, 1975-1995. Subjects included: electronics, statistics, fiber optics installation and troubleshooting, communications, design, programming, etc.
