Who We Are:

 

- Karen Kliegman

 

For the past 8 years I have been the library media/educational technology specialist at Searingtown School, a K-5 elementary school in New York. I am also an adjunct professor at Long Island University in their educational technology graduate program. I am a professional development instructor, focusing on educational technology professional development courses, in my school district’s Teacher Center and am the Webmaster for Searingtown School. I am also a teacher/editor for MidLink Magazine.

 

My work on the web has received recognition from Education World, Blue Web’N, The International Association of Webmasters and Designers, SeaWorld, techLEARNING, Inspiration, Teacher's Network, and from ISTE.

Other Highlights:

 

• My project, Walls That Talk, won first place in 2004 in the ISTE SIGtel Online Shared Learning competition.
• 2004 finalist by Global Schoolnet, as an exemplary educator who has made important contributions to the field of online telecollaboration.
• In October of 2005, awarded Computer Logic Group's Innovative Educators Grant for my project, Circle of Rights.
• By way of a 2005 grant awarded by Teaching Tolerance, I co-edited the book, Child Justice: Reflections in Poetry and Paint
• Surfaquarium Top Online Educator in 2006
• Childbridge for Children's Rights, selected as a finalist in the 2007 Global Junior Challenge.
• I was also a recipient of an award from Cablevision's Power to Learn for my project Tell Me A Story.

I have presented at several conferences by myself or with other MidLink Editors, including:

• NSBA (National School Board of Administrators)
• NECC (National Educational Computing Conference)
• NYSCATE (NYS Assocation for Computers and Technologies in Education)
• SLMS (School Library Media Section of the NY Library Association)
• ASSET (Associated Suffolk Supervisors of Educational Technologies)
• Library Connections
• MEGA (Middle Educator's Global Activities)
• SAJES Council for Prejudice Reduction

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  Karen Kliegman
  e-mail: kkliegman@gmail.com
  e-portofolio: webfolio
  blog: Wired Librarian
  class blog: Blogmeister 4th-5th Grade ICT Blog

   

 

 

- Joselyn Todd (FETC Conference)

 

I have been teaching 10 years at Cary Academy and curently teach 7th grade science.  I am also the middle school science department chair and facilitate an innovate health science program called the Advances in Medical Technology Program.

 

Honors/Awards/Publications:

• NC Sigma Xi Award for Oustanding Teacher Award for Science and Math (2006)

• National Asociation of Indendendent Schools Leading Edge Award for Programmatic Sustainability (2007)- "Advances in Medical Technology Program"

• "Classroom Robotics: Case Stories of 21st Century Instruction for Millennial Students" (2007) (co-wrote a chapter with Eric Himburg)

• 2002 NSF-NSTA WebWatchers Program, NSTA Headquarters, Arlington, VA

   

   

 

Recent presentations by myself or with others:

 

• 2007 PLP- Consortium, AmericasMart Atlanta, Ga “Powerful Learning Practice for Teachers and Students Face to Face Celebration”

   

• 2007 NCETC, Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, North Carolina, Presentation:  "Web 2.0- Let's Make Learning a Group Effort"

   

• 2007 MEGA Conference, Friday Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, Workshop:  "Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Innovation in Podcasting"

   

• 2007 Podcasting and New Media Expo, Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California, Presentation: "Podcasting for Teachers: Applications for Teachers and Learners (K-12 Emphasis)"

   

   

• 2007 National Workshop on Stimulating and Sustaining Excitement and Discovery in K-12 STEM Education, Friday Institute, North Carolina University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Presentation: Poster Session-  "Advances in Medical Technology Program"

   

   

• 2007 MEGA Conference, Friday Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, Presentation:  “Engaging Students with Emerging Technologies”

   

• 2007 NAIS Conference, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado.  National Award Recipient: Leading Edge.

   

• 2006 MEGA Future Ready! 21st Century Skills + Technology & Learning Tools, Friday Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, Presentation:  “Robotic Assisted Cardiology Program: An Experiment in Joining Community Health Care Providers with Middle School Health/Science Education”

   

• 2006 Expanding Your Horizons in Math, Science, and Technology Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

   

• 2006 Curriculum Institute: Linking Understanding by Design and Curriculum Mapping, Boston, Massachusetts

   

 

Current Classroom Focus:

• Integration of Web 2.0 technologies into my general science curriculum such as content delivery via RSS feeds, podcasting, screencasting, social networking, and vodcasting. 

• Developing and facilitating the Cary Academy Advances in Medical Technology Program (AMTP) which focuses on robotic assisted cardiovascular surgery as well as other emerging medical technologies in other medical specialties (orthopaedics). 

• Integration of robotics (Lego Mindstorms) into both the AMTP class and general science classes. 

• Assimilation of blogging and wiki use into the classroom curriculum.  

 

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Joselyn J. Todd, Ph.D.

e-mail:  joselyn_todd@caryacademy.org

 

Classroom Blog/Website: http://www.cascience7.com;

MidLink Magazine- "An Online Magazine Created for and by Teachers and the Students that They Teach."- http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/

 

MidLink Blog- http://midlinkemergingtech.wordpress.com/

 

 

- Brenda Dyck

 

Brenda Dyck graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Education degree and received a Masters of Educational Technology degree from the University of British Columbia in 2005. Brenda has taught in both public and private schools and in 2006 became an instructor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. Teaching pre-service teachers, Brenda’s courses focus on Social Studies Curriculum and Methodology and the use of technology to extend thinking and learning. Brenda is the moderator of MiddleTalk, a listserve sponsored by the National Middle School Association (NMSA). Her "HotLinks" column is a regular feature in NMSA's magazine, Middle Ground and she writes a bi-monthly Blog for Education World, an education e-zine. Brenda’s first book, The Rebooting of a Teacher’s Mind, was published by the National Middle School Association in 2004. Brenda travels throughout her home province of Alberta and throughout the United States as a conference speaker and workshop leader covering topics related to middle level education, telecollaboration and the effective integration of technology.

 

Brenda became a MidLink Magazine editor in 2000 and has contributed such telecollaborative projects as We the Children…, Stories from the Streets, Beyond Wild Justice, The Eleanor Rigby Project, Come Fly with Me, Statistics: A Curiosity Factor and most recently, Hidden Stories. “We the Children…” was a winning entry (in the 11-15 year old category) at the 2004 Global Junior Challenge in Rome, Italy and in 2005, The Eleanor Rigby Project won second place in the ISTE SIGtel Online Shared Learning competition. Brenda was listed as one of Surfaquarium’s Top Online Educators in 2005.

 

Some of Brenda's articles and commentaries are linked - MidLink Editors Publishing Section of MidLink Magazine.

 

Brenda's goals as contributing editor continues to be

• To help teachers and students discover how technology can be used as a mindtool to promote deep learning and enhance teaching and learning.
• To expose teachers to various tools that when used will challenge students to implement higher level thinking skills while participating in online project learning.
• To maintain a collaborative project called "Hidden Stories." Through this project students will learn about the power of digital storytelling to share stories from history. Students will develop their ability to search digital archives, cite primary sources, create historically authentic narratives and use technology tools such as Windows MovieMaker, Microsoft Photo Story or iMovie to house these important stories from history. Student work will be posted on the Hidden Stories project web site.

 

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Brenda Dyck

Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta

Alberta, Canada

 

 

 

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