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Jeffrey Barlow, Director of the Berglund Center, is the founding editor of The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, Past President and current Webmaster of the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), and Director of the Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning (MCEL). He is Professor of History and holds the Matsushita Chair of Asian Studies at Pacific University. Professor Barlow's web page.
Dr. Jerald Block is a Board-certified adult psychiatrist. He earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and did his residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital & New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was initially trained at Columbia University as an industrial engineer and worked for several years as a computer consultant before going into medicine. In 1999, Dr. Block opened a private practice in Portland, Or. He also worked as an attending in the Crisis Triage Center and as a consult/liaison psychiatrist in St. Vincent's Hospital. Currently, Dr. Block is an advanced candidate at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. He is also on the clinical teaching faculty at Oregon Health & Sciences University. In 2003, Dr. Block co-founded SMARTguard Software, a firm that developed a tool to track and limit certain types of computer use. Dr. Block is a leading authority on compulsive computer use, pathological computer use, and "Internet addiction." In addition to numerous lectures and papers on computers and pathological computer use, Dr. Block has testified before the FCC and the California Senate on issues ranging from illegal file downloading to pornography and the Internet. He has also recently published a psychiatric forensic analysis on the shootings at Columbine High School.
Glee is a writer and technologist who now works in enterprise risk management for a financial services firm. She is the co-author (with Pat McGregor) of four books intended to help consumers manage their use of technology. Their digital privacy book is on the reading list for the privacy professional certification course offered by the Interational Association of Privacy Professionals. By training a journalist, she worked in developing library automation systems, in corporate marketing for a large mainframe computer manufacturer, and then was an early advocate for internet working. Representing first an Internet service provider and then a privacy software development company, she contributed to the discussions regarding digital information and privacy in the state, federal, and international policy arena. She was a private sector advisor to the Departments of State and Commerce at the OECD and her deposition explaining how the Internet works is quoted in the Reno v. ACLU Supreme Court decision overturning the Communications Decency Act. As a speaker at conferences, in Congressional testimony, and on television, she is particularly known for explaining complex technical systems and concepts to non-technical audiences.
Jeff Cain, EdD is the Director of Education Technology for the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Pharmacy. In addition to a doctorate in instruction and administration, he obtained an MS in instructional design and a BBA in finance from the University of Kentucky. Prior to his current position, Dr. Cain worked as a staff engineer for OshKosh B'Gosh, Inc., as a technology trainer for Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky, and as a manager of instructional technology at the UK Medical Center Faculty Academic Computing and Technology Support Center. His roles and responsibilities for the College of Pharmacy have run the gamut from Information Technology Director to teaching pharmacy management to leading faculty development efforts.
Dr. Cain's research interests revolve primarily around technology in education. He has recently written numerous articles and delivered several presentations on the issues of online social networks in higher education. He is at the forefront of publishing and speaking about the emerging concept of "e-professionalism". Web 2.0 applications are changing the communication and information aspects of our culture and Dr. Cain is busy studying those changes.
UKCOP webpage located at: http://pharmacy.mc.uky.edu/depts/education/jeffcain.php
D. Antonio Cantù, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Southern Illinois University, Ed.S. in Community College Education, M.A. in History, and B.S. in Social Science Education from Arkansas State University.
Prior to his appointment as Chair of the Department of Teacher Education, he served as Professor and Dean of Education at Indiana University Kokomo; Professor of History and Director of Social Studies Education, as well as editor of the International Journal of Social Education, at Ball State University; and Social Studies Department Chair and History Teacher at Ste. Genevieve (MO) High School.
Professor Cantù is the author of a number of research articles and books on history education and technology integration, including most recently History Education 101: The Past, Present, and Future of Teacher Preparation (2008) and Teaching History in the Digital Classroom (2003). He has also served as a curriculum writer for various national organizations, including The History Channel, The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition and PBS Frontline.
Tom has a bachelor degree with honours from Leicester University, an MBA and doctorate in Management Education from the University of Wales as well as professional qualifications gained from the University of Wolverhampton, the UK Institute of Learning and Teaching, the Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand and the EdExcel Foundation in London. In addition, he has held corporate membership of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and the UK Institute of Management. He retains connections to the UK through his work with Henley International Management College in the MBA programme and more recently, with the M.Sc programme in the department of International Business at the University of Ulster.
Since arriving in New Zealand Tom has lectured at the Waikato University Management School in Management Communication and at the Teaching and Learning Development Unit of the university on teambuilding. He has also lectured on personal development and creativity in the Action Learning Leadership MBA programme at the University Centre for Executive Education. Tom has also taught at the Waikato Institute of Technology School of Communication and currently is Associate Head of the School of Education and Social development. He is about to take up a position at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia, as Academic Learning and Teaching Fellow in the Australian Business School.
Tom has current research interests in emotional regimes in teams, communication and tacit knowledge in a range of contexts, including virtual environments. He has presented at many international conferences and published in academic journals in the UK, USA and EU on a range of management and leadership topics for over 20 years. He has contributed chapters on teams and action learning in three books on management and has authored or co-authored over 30 papers in academic, practitioner and professional journals. He is currently a reviewer for three major academic journals. Tom has been an invited commentator on BBC radio and BBC digital television on several occasions. He is at present carrying out some research on material for a book, provisionally titled 'Communities of Commitment'.
Shawn Davis is an Assistant Professor in Pacific University's School of Professional Psychology wherein he teaches the Psychometrics, Cognition, and Lifespan Development courses. Dr. Davis is a recent addition to Pacific University having come from Texas where he earned an MA degree in Experimental Cognitive Psychology from Stephen F. Austin University and his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Houston. His research interests center around ways to maximize the effectiveness of information presented online. In particular, he has focused on the development of highly individualized online health promotion programs.
Duboff's practice areas include Business, Art, Intellectual Property (Copyright, Trademark, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Patent Litigation, Licensing), Corporate, Real Estate & High-Tech Law, Commercial Litigation. He attended Brooklyn Poly Tech (AAS, 1964), Hofstra University (BES, magna cum laude, 1968), Brooklyn Law School (JD, summa cum laude, 1971), and his bar admissions are New York (1972) and Oregon (1977). http://www.dubofflaw.com/.
Michael Geraci is an assistant professor in Pacific University's Integrated Media program, a major he helped to design and implement for the university in 1998. Mike also teaches online courses in Information Design and Communication for the University of Oregon's Applied Information Management Masters program, the program from which he earned his Master of Science degree in 2002. Prior to teaching, Mike spent eight years managing Pacific's department of Educational Technologies where he developed web and multimedia applications to support teaching and learning. In addition, he has a number of years experience working as an independent web developer, graphic designer and video production specialist.
Pat McGregor was educated as a journalist and a student of medieval history, but took a left turn somewhere around 1982 and ended up in network technology and Internet security. Most recently, she has spent time working with multi-national corporations as a security and privacy architect and government affairs specialist. She is now working as a private consultant. With her co-author, Glee Harrah Cady, she has written four books on the Internet, and their most recent book, Protect Your Digital Privacy. She is currently working both on security consulting projects, and the third edition of her popular medieval cookbook.
Before moving to Northern California in 1993 to help found an Internet start-up, Pat worked for the University of Michigan and MichNet, who had the contract to develop the modern Internet backbone from the ARPANET. In her lifetime she's managed a resume writing business, did typesetting and keylining in the era before word and text processors, managed a print shop, was an English TA at Michigan State University, and a news stringer for several radio stations and newspapers, including The Boston Globe. Her history includes founding a cooperative day care and spending time as a DJ, a trial balance bookkeeper, the required term as a waitress, and a school bus driver.
Chris Pruett is a software engineer at Google. Before joining the internet monolith, Chris was a senior engineer in the video game industry for a number of years. His credits include Spider-Man 3 for Playstation 2 and Wii and two Crash Bandicoot GameBoy Advance games, among several others. In addition to writing code, Chris spends a lot of time studying Japanese and playing horror games. He maintains a horror game research blog at http://www.dreamdawn.com/sh/.
Steve Rhine, Ed. D. is a Professor of Education in the School of Education at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Dr. Rhine was part of the writing team for the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers in 2000. He directed the Oregon Technology in Education Network (OTEN), from 2001-04 which was then funded by the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) program. He has been instrumental in the Teacher Quality Enhancement Partnership grant that currently funds OTEN. He has taught courses in Educational Technology, Educational Psychology, Action Research, and Mathematics Education. His current research includes work on conducting online dialogue with student teachers based on digital video clips of their teaching, the role of Web 2.0 in classrooms, and the transition of Mexican and Ukrainian im/migrant students into Oregon schools. He has recently published two books. The first, "A Brilliant Teacher", an engaging account of his year-long trip around the world with his wife and three children. The second, "Integrated Technologies, Innovative Learning: Insights from the PT3 Program", an edited book of stories of efforts by institutions to integrate technology in the development of preservice teachers.
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.
Deborah L. Wheeler holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. Her areas of research interest are technology and social change; IT and international development; and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. She has published more than 20 articles on the diffusion and impact of Information Technology in the Arab World and has most recently published a book entitled The Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations/Local Imaginations in Kuwait (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005). She has held many fellowships and awards including a Fulbright Post-Doctoral research grant to Kuwait, a Center for Internet Studies Fellowship from the University of Washington, a Berglund Center for Internet Studies Fellowship, and most recently, an Oxford Internet Institute Research Fellowship. Dr. Wheeler has conducted field work on the impact of the Internet on society, economy and politics in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Oman, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Presently she is finishing a book for Lynne Rienner Press on the Meaning of Information Society in the Middle East. Prof. Wheeler is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.
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