April-May 2004 - Volume 4, Issue 3

  • Kevin Kawamoto <kawamoto@u.washington.edu>

    Kevin Kawamoto is the author of Media and Society in the Digital Age (Allyn & Bacon, 2003) and has taught digital media and global communication courses at the University of Washington. He was a technology studies manager at The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York City and currently works as a Seattle-based communications consultant, writer and researcher. He is editing a second book called Digital Journalism: Views from the Horizon (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).

  • Kristy Smolenski-Nelson <smoskall@hotmail.com>

    Kristy Smolenski-Nelson currently teaches online for two colleges, Westwood Online and Barstow College.  She has helped developed online classes for both colleges.  She also teaches ground classes at Riverside Community College.   Her success as a writer ranges from numerous aspects, including winning the President's Award for Literary Excellence twice for her poetry.  She currently freelance edits and ghostwrites for published writers.

    Mark Szymanski, Ph.D., Education and Learning Editor, is a former Berglund Fellow and Assistant Professor in The College of Education at Pacific University where he teaches Human Development and Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Technology Across the Curriculum classes. Mark's past includes time high school teacher and community college instructor. His research interests involve designing learning environments informed by psychology and facilitated by technology. His most recent Berglund Center project involved developing and facilitating HIV education in Soweto, South Africa. http://bcis.pacificu.edu/southafrica. Mark's website can be found at: http://myweb.pacificu.edu/szym0933/marks.