Lynn McNally (lmcnally@pen.k12.va.us), a technology resource teacher with Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools, has worked in staff development and tech integration support for the past six years. She is a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE), an ISTE Affiliate. In 1998, she was named an Apple Distinguished Educator. Lynn teaches a graduate class on technology integration at Shenandoah University, has written curriculum for the Discovery Channel’s School Page, and recently served as an advisor to America Online’s new AOL@School.

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Cindy Etchison (cetchiso@loudoun.k12.va.us) is a technology resource specialist for Loudoun County Public Schools. She works with 40 technology resource teachers (TRTs) to promote the site-based and districtwide instructional technology program. As a resource specialist, she provides training for the TRTs and assists them in helping teachers to teach with technology. Mrs. Etchison has worked as a TRT, a computer systems analyst, and a teacher of preschool handicapped students.

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Judi Harris (judi.harris@mail.utexas.edu), associate professor in curriculum and instruction and area coordinator for Instructional Technology at the University of Texas at Austin, directs the Electronic Emissary (http://emissary.ots.utexas.edu/emissary). She has authored more than 150 articles and four books, most recently the 1998 books Virtual Architecture: Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing (published by ISTE) and Design Tools for the Internet-Supported Classroom (published by ASCD).

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Kiley Hartshorn is an eighth grader at Washington Middle School in Olympia. She is taking an advanced technology course in the mornings (Gen Did), in which she works with teachers at her school and community members. She is active in sports, playing both soccer and basketball. In her spare time, she likes to surf the Web, make cards on the computer, and even create multimedia presentations. And, she still has time to hang out with her friends, go to the mall, see movies, and talk on the phone. Contact Kiley through Marilyn Piper.

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Elaine Egan (eegan@minet.gov.mb.ca) teaches sixth grade at R. H. G. Bonnycastle School in the Fort Garry School Division. She was her school’s technology leader for three years and now participates on various technology committees at the school and divisional levels. She can be reached at school at 1100 Chancellor Dr., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 4W8; 204.261.9400.

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Duane Duxbury (dduxbury@everett.wednet.edu) is a teacher of music technology and fine arts at Henry M. Jackson High School in the Everett (Washington) School District. The music program has established a unique project-based curriculum in music technology, theory, and production. Duxbury is a leader in the state of Washington in developing Web-based collaborative curriculum tools that integrate the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements. Duxbury currently serves as Music Technology Chairperson for the Washington Music Educators Association and is a Smart Tools Academy Faculty Member for the Gates Learning Foundation. Duxbury holds BA, BM, and MEd degrees from the University of Washington.

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Kendall Hartley (khartley@nevada.edu), PhD, is an assistant professor of educational computing and technology in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He investigates the interaction of students’ beliefs and abilities with the design of instructional materials. He can be reached at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 453005, Las Vegas, NV 89154-3005, 702.895.4982; fax 702.895.4898; http://teach.nevada.edu.

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Laurence Goldberg (lg@abington.k12.pa.us), MEd, is a Certified Network Engineer and the Director of Technology and Telecommunications for the Abington School District (Pennsylvania). Laurence has more than 10 years’ experience working with technology in education and other organizations. He can be reached at Abington School District, 970 Highland Ave., Abington, PA 19001.

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

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Cliff Konold (konold@srri.umass.edu) is a research associate professor at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His current research focuses on understanding and improving students’ abilities to reason about data. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he is heading a team building data-analysis software for middle school students. The tool, Tinkerplots, is structured like a construction set, permitting students to create their own types of plots and analyses.

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Bob Coulter (bob.coulter@mobot.org) is director of Mapping the Environment, a program at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Litzsinger Road Ecology Center that supports teachers’ efforts to enhance their science curriculum through use of the Internet and geographic information systems (GIS) software. He is also president-elect of the Math Educators of Greater St. Louis. Previously, Bob taught elementary grades for 12 years.

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Alan Feldman (Alan_Feldman@terc.edu), PhD, is a principal scientist and cluster leader at TERC. His work focuses on technology integration in K–12 schools and classrooms and exemplary teaching and learning practices. He has worked in schools with teachers and instructional technology specialists and led workshops for district and school leaders throughout the northeast.

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Oregon native Kevin McGillivray (kevin_mcgillivray@eu.odedodea.edu) was an educational technologist for the Hanau Model Schools Partnership where he worked with K–12 teachers in their exploration of technology as a tool for deeper learning. He now directs the project as it is scaled up into the Hessen district’s (DoDDS-Europe) 17 schools. Visit the Hessen Model Schools Partnership at www.hess-dso.odedodea.edu/HMSP/index.html.

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Dr. Dave Moursund (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 Education (IACE) to form ISTE. He currently serves as Executive Officer of Research and Evaluation.

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