Charter Schools

Dr. David Moursund ( moursund@oregon.uoregon.edu) has been teaching and writing about information technology in education since 1963. In 1979, he founded the International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE). In 1989, ICCE merged with the International Association for Computing in Education to form ISTE. He has been the executive officer of ISTE since its founding.

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The Problem Cycle
A Model for Computer Education

Margaret Lloyd ( mm.lloyd@qut.edu.au) is a lecturer in technology education at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She has had lengthy experience as a secondary teacher of art and computing and is currently studying educational computing in terms of its enactment of the cultural myths of technology.

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Get Moving!

Have you ever wondered about the true identity of the two authors who speak to you as “we” in the Power Tools column? Bob Albrecht (dragonfun@aol.com) is a writer and developer of science, math, and technology curricula. George Firedrake is his alter ego and takes the form of a dragon. Laran Stardrake, whose quotes sometimes lead off the column, is another of Bob’s “accomplices.” She’s half dragon and half human. As Laran is fond of saying, “Reality expands to fill the available fantasies.”

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Catch Your Students with MicroWorlds Games

Dotty Gonsalves ( gonsalves@impresso.com) is a computer teacher and tech coordinator at All Saints School in Hayward, California. She became interested in computer education, particularly Logo, after volunteering with her children’s computer teacher, Patt Kell, in 1983.

Joan Lopez ( jlopez@impresso.com) is a computer teacher at All Saints School in Hayward, California. She has presented sessions about LogoWriter and MicroWorlds with Dotty Gonsalves at Northern California CUE conferences.

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Using Computer Spreadsheets to Solve Equations

Margaret L. Niess ( niessm@ucs.orst.edu), L&L’s mathematics editor, is a professor at Oregon State University. In 1993, she received OSU’s Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research. Contact her at the Dept. of Science and Mathematics Education, OSU, Corvallis, OR 97331; 541.737.1817; fax 541.737.1818.

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Internet Investigations
Mixing Talent with Teachers and Telecommunications

Mark Brown (M.E. Brown@massey.ac.nz) is a lecturer in educational technology in the Department of Learning and Teaching, Massey University, New Zealand. He specializes in linking contemporary learning theory to the application of new educational technologies in schools.

Tracy Riley (T.L.Riley @massey.ac.nz) is a lecturer in gifted education in the Department of Learning and Teaching, Massey University, New Zealand. She specializes in developing programs and policies appropriate for educating children with special abilities.

Dr. Joan Thormann ( thormann@mail.lesley.edu) is L&L’s special needs editor and professor in and codirector of Lesley College’s innovative technology in education program. She taught students with special needs in public and private schools. She wrote Literacy in a Science Context (ASCD, 1996), a technology-based curriculum for inclusive classrooms. Phone her at 617.349.8387 or fax her at 617.349.8169.

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Technology-Transformed Dictionary Compilation
Drudgery into Desired Desktop Lexicographer Enchantment

Rose Reissman ( maskin@voyager.bxscience.edu or maskin@cnct.com) is currently president of the Association of Computer Educators, New York; resident director of R&D and curriculum design for FutureKids Technology Literacy Training Center; and New York City education liaison for the Program for Social and Emotional Learning at Columbia Teachers College. Contact her at 110 Seaman Ave., 5C, New York, NY 10034.

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Listserv Learning

Kathleen Martin ( kdam@homer.u.washington.edu) is a professor and director of the education program at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is currently exploring the viability of listservs as modes of professional connectivity. Please send or e-mail suggestions to her at University of Washington, Bothell, 22011-26th Avenue SE, Bothell, WA 98021.

Donna Bearden ( ldbear@swbell.net) is an educational psychologist employed in the Research and Evaluation division of the Dallas Public Schools. She has several technology-related publications to her credit and has trained teachers and administrators in problem-solving approaches to learning.

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Educational Teleresearch
A Means, Not an End

Judi Harris ( jbharris@tenet.edu) is an associate professor in curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas-Austin and directs the Electronic Emissary. She has written more than 130 articles and four books, most recently Virtual Architecture: Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing (1998, ISTE) and Design Tools for the Internet-Supported Classroom (1998, ASCD).

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Technology Staff-Development and Support Programs
Applying Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Dr. Gerald D. Bailey ( jbailey@ksu.edu) is professor of educational administration and leadership in the College of Education at Kansas State University. He recently coauthored Planning for Technology and Staff Development in Technology with Dr. Dan Lumley for the National Educational Service.

David Pownell (dwp4231@ksu.edu) received degrees in computer science education and educational technology and taught high school computer studies for four years. He is currently a doctoral student in educational administration and employed by the Educational Technology Consortium as an educational technology specialist at Kansas State University.

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Software Reviews
Powerful Visual Tools: Helping Students Become Scientists

Judi Mathis Johnson ( 73517.2107@compuserve.com) has edited software reviews for 10 years and the Educational Software Preview Guide for six. She is Virginia’s higher-education representative to the SEIRTEC advisory board, and she directs the ENC Access Center for Southside Virginia. Contact her at 2749 Birdsong Ln., Powhatan, VA 23139; 804.598.6138.

Marc Dolbier (wgms1@ erols.com) is the technology coordinator for the Fredericksburg City Schools in Virginia. He graduated in 1991 from Boston University, has been a middle school science teacher, worked for the Boston Museum of Science, and had a short career at the New England Aquarium involving a large fish costume.

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Worldwide Genealogy
Using the Web to Complete Your Family Tree

Fred D’Ignazio ( dignazio@msen.com) has written 25 books on science and technology and conducted multimedia training workshops in school districts in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is currently principal of MUD Pie School (“Multimedia U Design”) ( www.mudpie.org/mudpie.htm). Contact him by phone at 517.332.8896 or fax at 517.332.9378.

Catie D’Ignazio ( catiedig@ix.netcom.com) is a Web developer for Ivy Productions, Inc., and moonlights as a free-lance Web designer, visual artist, and consultant in educational technology with her father, Fred D’Ignazio. In the past year, Catie and Fred have conducted workshops from Washington, D.C., to Avalon, Australia.

Laura D’Ignazio ( dignazio@msen.com) has spent most of her nine years making multimedia with her dad, Fred. She currently travels with her dad doing workshops around the country on HyperStudio and Web-page authoring. Inspired by her third-grade teacher, Pam Andrews, Laura wants to be a teacher when she grows up.