Bernie Dodge, PhD (bdodge@mail.sdsu.edu), is a professor of educational technology at San Diego State University. He focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of computer-based learning environments and teaches a variety of courses on that theme. Thanks to a new federal PT³ grant, he'll be spending the next three years developing a new approach to preservice teacher education in a project called “Learning Through Cyber-Apprenticeship.” For more, visit: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/bdodge.html.

Dr. Colleen Swain (cswain@coe.ufl.edu) is an assistant professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. She specializes in the integration of technology into the daily curricula and distance teaching and learning. Dr. Swain has published in journals such as Tech Trends, Intervention in School and Clinic, and Theory and Research in Social Education. She can be reached at the University of Florida, PO Box 117048, Gainesville, FL 32611; 352.392.9191, ext. 264; fax 352.392.9193; www.coe.ufl.edu/Courses/EdTech/et.html.

Steven Moskowitz (stevenmoskowitz@earthlink.net) has worked in technology and education for more than 20 years. A graduate of the SUNY Potsdam, he began his career as a music teacher, has worked as a corporate trainer with Fortune 500 corporations, has owned and operated a LAN business, and has been a certified network engineer. As a certified teacher and administrator, he has worked extensively with school districts. Currently, he is the director of technology for the New York Brewster Central School District.

Micheline Hickenbotham (MichelineHickenbotham@bhsu.edu) is at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. She holds an MS in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in technology from Black Hills State University. She taught nine years on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation at Takini. She won the 1998 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching, sponsored by the South Dakota Science Teachers Association. In 1998, she also received a Certificate of Honor from the National Science Foundation for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. In 1999, she received the South Dakota Technology Leadership Award for the Australian Partnership Project. Reach her at College of Education, 1200 University, Unit 9121, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 57799; 605.642.6073; fax 605.642.6032.

Jane Marn Magni (jane_ magni@mcgraw-hill.com) originally wrote this article as a class assignment for a graduate course, Principles of Curriculum. She is now the technology coordinator for math and science at Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. She has a BA in biology from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, and will complete her masters in education from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, in fall 2001. She is certified to teach biology and general science, and she taught biology and environmental science for several years at Notre Dame Academy in Chardon, Ohio. Contact her by e-mail or at 614.430.4212; fax 614.430.4403.

Bob Albrecht (SSGaia2000@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." The DragonFun image is from an original painting by Marcy Kier-Hawthorne.

Candace Katz (ckatz@neh.gov) is director of the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She received a PhD in English and American literature from Harvard University and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. She has published in Social Education as well as Learning & Leading with Technology.

Jennifer Serventi (jserventi@neh.gov) is a program specialist in the Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She received her BA in history and government from Claremont McKenna College, where she served as a Dunbar Fellow at the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. Reach both authors at NEH, Division of Education Programs, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20506; 202.606.8380.

Dr. Lih-Ching Chen Wang (l.c.wang@csuohio.edu) is an assistant professor of educational technology at Cleveland State University. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in technology integration in the classroom, technology strand, technological change and schools, information and computer technology concepts, and software tools. Her research interests include server applications in education, computer uses for teacher education, Web-based instruction, Web-based surveying and testing, Web-based training, online distance education, use of hypermedia for instructional delivery and curriculum integration, and video streaming. You can contact her at 216.687.4595 or visit her Web site at http://wang.ed.csuohio.edu/.

Judi Harris (judi.harris@mail.utexas.edu), associate professor in curriculum and instruction and instructional technology area coordinator at the University of Texas‹Austin, directs the Electronic Emissary (http://emissary.ots.utexas.edu/emissary/). She has authored more that 150 articles and four books, most recently Virtual Architecture: Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing (1998, ISTE; the 2nd edition is due out in late 2001) and Design Tools for the Internet-Supported Classroom (1998, ASCD).

James Backer, PhD (bjimmy@gadot.org.il), is a member of Kibbutz Gadot, a communal village on the banks of the Jordan River, in the Upper Galilee, Israel. In 1991, he earned his MA in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from the University of Massachusetts‹Boston Campus. His doctorate, earned at the School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in 2000, focused on using Internet-based technology to facilitate second language acquisition. While teaching English at Har V¹Gai Regional School, Dr. Backer has also worked as a Computer-Aided Language Learning counselor for the Israeli Ministry of Education. Contact him by e-mail or at Kibbutz Gadot, D.N. Upper Galilee 12325 Israel.

Dave Moursund, PhD (dmoursund@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 (IACE) to form ISTE. He currently serves as executive officer of research and evaluation. Visit Dave’s Web site at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/.

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