A Typical Student in 2016

Dr. David Moursund (moursund@iste.org) 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 currently serves as ISTE’s executive officer for research, development, and evaluation.

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Collaborative Classrooms

Richard Goldsworthy (design@academicedge.net) taught and served as technology coordinator at Woodbridge Academy in Lexington, Kentucky, for six years. He presents and publishes nationally on technologies and their integration into the classroom. He is currently Director of Research and Development at The Academic Edge, Inc., an educational training and multimedia development company located in Bloomington, Indiana. Contact the author at The Academic Edge, Inc., 216 W. Allen St., Bloomington, IN 47401; 812.332.3343.

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Collaborative Internet Tools

Frank Odasz (frank@lone-eagles.com) educated teachers at Western Montana College of the University of Montana (Dillon) for 13 years and directed the Big Sky Telegraph network, which offered online courses to rural teachers from 1988 to 1998. Now president of Lone Eagle Consulting, Frank is teaching online courses to those who aspire to become lone eagles through instructional entrepreneurship. He has delivered Internet workshops to Native Alaskan teachers and students in 11 Alaskan villages and to IDEA (Interior Distance Education for Alaska, www.galenaalaska.org) home schoolers in six major Alaskan cities. All Frank¹s resources, courses, articles, and services are accessible at http://lone-eagles.com.

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The Twelve Days of Christmas and

To Keyboard or Not to Keyboard

Ivan W. Baugh (iwbaugh@mindspring.com) serves as adjunct professor of education at Bellarmine College, in Louisville, Kentucky. He teaches undergraduate and graduate technology in education classes and collaborates with his colleagues to encourage technology integration. Contact him at 9910 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40223-2908, 502.245.9816; fax 502.253.9013.

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Kiss Clip Art Goodbye

Bonnie Meltzer (meltzer@macsolve.com) is an artist and an educator who specializes in computers and creativity. She leads teacher workshops at schools and conferences. She has taught many children at special events, in the classroom, and as an Arts in Education artist. Bonnie uses the techniques and tools she teaches in her own work. Visit http://www.bonniemeltzer.com to see her creations.

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Learn from the Past, Invent the Future

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 this column, is another of Bob¹s "accomplices." She¹s half-dragon and half-human. As Laran is fond of saying, "Reality expands to fill the available fantasies." The DragonFun image is from an original painting by Marcy Kier-Hawthorne.

Paul Davis (ctec1@mchs.srcs.k12.ca.us) is a mathematics teacher at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, California. He was a happy, normal teacher until he met Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake in 1992 and became another one of their accomplices. Since then, Paul has been intertwingling math, science, and technology in his classroom with the help of Bob and George.

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Communicate with Pictures: Using Still and Video Photography in Science

Paula Setters (psetters@kvnet.org) recently retired after 28 years teaching in public schools. She is also an adjunct professor at Campbellsville University. She received her BS in physics and Rank 1 in science education from Western Kentucky University and her MA from the University of Alabama­Birmingham. Paula is a member of the NEA, AAPT, NSTA, and their corresponding state organizations. She lives in a two-story log home in Hodgenville, Kentucky‹Abraham Lincoln¹s birthplace.

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Julio¹s Run: Studying Graphs and Functions

Dr. Azita Manouchehri (manouch@coe.fsu.edu) teaches at Florida State University in the math-ematics education department. Her interests include problem-based mathematics and the effects of technology use on mathematics teaching and learning.

Dr. Lyle Pagnucco (LylePagnucco@medtech.ca) has taught mathematics, mathematics education, and technology courses for more than 20 years. He is currently the director of the Technology Literacy Connection Institute in Calgary, Canada. His research focuses on the effects of technology use on teachers¹ and learners¹ conceptualization of mathematics.

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; 541.737.1818; fax 541.737.1817.

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Electronic Texts in the Classroom: Open Books Online and Find a World of Possibilities

Glen Bull (GlenBull@virginia.edu) is a professor of instructional technology in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Gina Bull (GinaBull@virginia.edu) is a computer systems engineer in the Information Technology and Communication (ITC) organization at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Laura Blasi (Blasi@virginia.edu) is a doctoral student in English education at the University of Virginia. Contact Laura at Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Paula Cochran (Paula@truman.edu) is an associate professor in communication disorders at Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 63501.

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Webcentric … Web What?

Susan Westermark King (susan.king@school.celebration.fl.us) is a computer science teacher at Celebration School. She has a master¹s degree in educational technology from the University of Central Florida. Before becoming an educator, she worked as a computer programmer for high-technology firms for 12 years. Susan and her son, Timothy, presented at the 1998 Florida Education Technology Conference. Their talk "Can Eleven-Year Olds Learn Computer Science?" discussed their experiences as Timothy learned computer science concepts through the Java programming language. Contact Susan at Celebration School, 510 Campus Street, Celebration, FL 34747; 407.566.2300.

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Virtual Learning? Research on Virtual High Schools

M. D. Roblyer (mroblyer@westga.edu), L&L¹s Research Windows editor and chair of ISTE¹s publications committee, is currently a professor of educational technology at the University of West Georgia. She has been an educator, researcher, and author in educational technology for 25 years. Her work includes Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum (Prentice Hall/Merrill, 1998), a technology lesson plan database based on ISTE publications; Assessing the Impact of Computer-Based Instruction (Haworth, 1988); and Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (Prentice Hall/Merrill, 2000).

Bonnie Elbaum (bonnie@concord.org) is a consultant for the Virtual High School (VHS) and has worked for that project since its inception in 1996. Her various responsibilities include research, writing, evaluation, and administrative work for VHS. Bonnie graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1996, where she undertook a project-based concentration in the natural sciences. Bonnie telecommutes to VHS from her home in New Jersey.

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Software Releases

Judi Mathis Johnson (judimj@iste.org) has evaluated educational software since 1979. She has published with ISTE since 1986 and continues to edit their Educational Software Preview Guide. She recently worked at Longwood College, first helping the education faculty learn more about using technology and later as a professor redesigning courses to integrate technology. Contact her at 2749 Birdsong Lane, Powhatan, VA 23139; 804.598.6138.