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 the Research and Evaluation Group.

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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. She has presented at state and national conferences; conducted numerous workshops; and received local, state, and national grants. 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 (Virginia) 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 helps plan and provide training for the TRTs and helps them help teachers teach with technology. Mrs. Etchison has worked as a TRT, computer systems analyst, and teacher of preschool students with special needs.

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Sean Connolly is an eighth grader at Hudson Falls Middle School in Hudson Falls, New York. He enjoys swimming, inline skating, and computer games, and he plays trumpet in the school band. He is on the cross country, swimming, and track teams. Sean is a gradute of the Generation www.Y program (a Gen Did) and helps teach Gen Y with David Perkins. Contact Sean through David at Dperkins@hudsonfalls.k12.ny.us.

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Dennis Harper (dharper@genwhy.wednet.edu), column editor for Student Voices, is the project director for Generation www.Y. He has been teaching for 32 years in such diverse locales as Australia, Singapore, east Los Angeles, and Finland. He has served on the faculties of the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Malaysia; and the University of the Virgin Islands. He can be reached at the Olympia School District, 1113 Legion Way SE, Olympia, WA 98501; 360.753.8835; 360.664.0745.

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Marilyn Piper (mpiper@osd.wednet.edu) is the co-editor of the Student Voices column. Her teaching career began 28 years ago in New York City. For the past 16 years, she has taught at Washington Middle School, one of the first schools in the nation to implement Generation www.Y. Marilyn is the Generation www.Y Curriculum Coordinator as well as the Technology Coordinator for Washington Middle School.

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Marcia J. Pastorek (mpastorek@hotmail.com) is the Lower School French Coordinator at Trinity Episcopal School, 1315 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, LA 70130; 504.525.8661; www.trinityno.com.

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Lisa Craig (wptx@aol.com) is the Lower School Science Coordinator at Trinity Episcopal School, 1315 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, LA 70130; 504.525.8661; www.trinityno.com.

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Jane Chenuau (jchenuau@trinity.nschool.com) has been teaching middle school French at Trinity Episcopal School in New Orleans since 1988. She completed an undergraduate degree at Loyola University in New Orleans and earned a graduate degree at the Université de Paris in Créteil, France. She can be reached at Trinity Episcopal School, 1315 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, LA 70130; 504.525.8661; fax 504.523.4837.

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Dr. Rose Reissman (rreissman@yahoo.com), L&L’s language arts editor, is currently president of the Association of Computer Educators, New York; R&D consultant for FutureKids Technology Literacy Training Center; president of NYCATE; educational consultant for the Museum of the City of New York; and language arts standards consultant for CityLore/Multimedia Cultural Resource Center. She has developed media and technology courses for the reading and writing master’s program at Manhattanville College. Contact her at 110 Seaman Ave., 5C, New York, NY 10034.

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Elizabeth Gil (gileliza@hotmail.com) is the Title VII Coordinator/Technology Staff Developer at Community School 211 in the Bronx, New York. As a staff developer, Elizabeth conferences with and instructs teachers to facilitate integration of technology with their curriculum themes and teachings. In teaching students and parents at the bilingual school, she promotes the use of computers as tools in all aspects of life. She is a member of the Association of Computer Educators (ACE), the New York City Association of Teachers of English (NYCATE), and an alumna of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers.

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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 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.

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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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Cheryl L. DeVincentis (cdevincentis@fc.fcps.k12.va.us), television communications teacher at Westfield High School, teaches television production and integrates video across the school’s curriculum. Contact her at 4700 Stonecroft Blvd., Chantilly, VA 20151; 703.488.6300.

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Patricia A. King (pking@herndonhs.fcps.k12.va.us), MEd, is a social studies teacher and technology team chair at Herndon High School. She teaches government and is Assistant Director of Student Activities. Contact her at Herndon High School, 700 Bennett St., Herndon, VA 20170; 703.810.2200.

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Charles S. White (cswhite@bu.edu), L&L’s social studies editor, is president of the Social Science Education Consortium (Boulder, Colorado) and associate professor of social studies education at Boston University. His most recent book (with Joseph Braun and Phyllis Fernlund) is Technology Tools in the Social Studies Curriculum (published in 1998 by Franklin, Beedle Associates). Contact him at the School of Education, 605 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215.

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An 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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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 system (GIS) software. He is also president-elect of the Math Educators of Greater St. Louis, an NCTM affiliate. Previously, Bob taught elementary grades for 12 years.

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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’ ability to reason about data. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he is heading a team building data-analysis software for middle school students.

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Alan Feldman (Alan_Feldman@terc.edu), 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. Dr. Feldman is the senior author of the research monograph, Network Science, A Decade Later: The Internet and Classroom Learning (published in 2000 by Erlbaum).

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Ken Kwajewski (KentheQ@aol.com) has been a teacher since 1971 mostly in Massachusetts. He has used computer technology since 1981. He has held technology coordinator positions for the Massachusetts systems of Dedham, Harvard, and Andover. Currently, he is technology education teacher at West Middle School in Andover. Ken has coached computer teams to finish nationally ranked, conducted workshops throughout the country, published several articles, and taught graduate-level courses for Fitchburg State College. He can be reached at 6 Northfield Rd., Amherst, NH 03031; 603.673.5974.

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