Board of Directors
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Dr. Yvonne Marie Andres, President
Encinitas, California
Dr. Yvonne Marie Andres is Global SchoolNet's executive director, co-founder and
visionary. A former classroom teacher and educator for two decades, Andres
taught pre-school through university and is passionate about demonstrating the
power of Internet-based collaborative learning. Ms. Andres has been champion of
telecollaboration since 1984 as a project director for various networks
including the AT&T Learning Network, CORE (California Online Resources in
Education) Network, and CERFnet (California Education and Research Federation).
She is co-creator of the Global Schoolhouse and producer of International
Schools CyberFair and the US State Department’s Doors to Diplomacy program. She
designed a pilot Internet-television video project with ABC World News Now.
Andres has been a keynote and featured presenter at the ISTE conference and provides leadership at
conferences and workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia,
South America and Africa. Ms. Andres was named one of the 25 most influential
people worldwide in education technology and was invited to meet with President
Bush to launch the Friendship Through Education initiative. Andres was also
awarded the International Soroptimist Making a Difference Award, for advancing
the status of women and children. Andres serves as the US education chair for
the Russia-US Civil Society Partnership. Yvonne is a co-founder
of GSN and iPoPP: International Projects or
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John St. Clair, Vice President
Ontario, California
John is one of the founding
members of the Board of Directors of the Global SchoolNet Foundation.
John has been teaching for over 27 years and is currently teaching
computer programming with MicroWorlds (a version of Logo) at Vina Danks
Middle School in Ontario, California. John also is in charge of keeping
the classroom computers and the school network running at Vina Danks.
He also is a district Technology Trainer, teaching after school
computer classes at the district technology center. He is a moderator
of an international Logo discussion forum on the Internet at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LogoForum. Past jobs include 12 years as
the FrEdMail SysOp of the OMSD node. John taught 12 years of computer
credential classes for UCR Extension. He was trained to be a Telementor
in the California Telemation Project and served one year as the Region
10 Lead Telementor, organizing and teaching Internet classes throughout
the 4 counties in Region 10. He served 4 years as a District Technology
Leader for Ontario-Montclair School district in the California
Technology Assistance Project. John was awarded a Gold Disk by California's CUE
(Computer-Using Educators, Inc.) for his contributions to educational
technology.
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Lorna Pasos, Secretary
San Diego, California
Lorna Pasos has almost 30 years of teaching
experience in elementary school and Special Education. She has also
served as the coordinator for the School Improvement Program for seven
years. She served on the Computer Using Educators (CUE) Board of
Directors for 4 years. As a coordinator for the GeoGame project, Lorna
has been instrumental in making this collaborative online event a
success. She has also been a FrEdMail sysop and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Global SchoolNet Foundation. As a retired teacher,
she volunteers in the computer program at a local elementary school,
working with the kindergarten teachers and the Site Technology Leaders.
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Al Rogers, Treasurer
Bonita, California
As Chief Operations Officer and Chief Technology Officer at GSN,
Al Rogers oversees all aspects of day-to-day operations of GSN and
product development. With over 20 years of classroom teaching
experience, Rogers is one of the earliest pioneers in the use of
computers in teaching. Al’s work has influenced educators for two
decades and he has received many awards for his contributions to
technology use in America's schools. He was the author of FrEdWriter,
a free teacher and student-friendly word processor and the FrEdMail
(Free Educational Mail) Network, an Apple-based pre-internet
telecommunications network developed to exchange student writing.
His "Harnessing the Power of the Web" CD-ROM was distributed as part
of NetDay and the Thinkquest Competition to over 500,000 teachers
around the world. Al is a co-founder
of GSN and iPoPP: International Projects or
Partners Place.
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Ralph
Genang
Founder of eLanguages
Zurich, Switzerland
Ralph Genang is the founder of eLanguages.org, one of the first
multilingual collaborative platforms for educators. eLanguages has
20,000 teachers from 144 countries connecting and collaborating on
projects from all over the world. Ralph has been a speaker at many
international conferences since 1997. He is an expert in the field
of Collaborative Learning, Online Learning Communities, and Creation
and sharing of Open Education Resources. Ralph is a co-founder of
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Sara
Armstrong
Berkeley, California
Dr. Sara Armstrong has been an educator for 30
years. Her classroom experience included integrating technology and
telecommunications into the curriculum in the early '80s. More
recently, Sara worked as an independent consultant on a variety of
projects, including professional development, curriculum design, issues
of information literacy, and storytelling and technology, and as the
Director of Content at The George Lucas Educational Foundation. She is
the author and co-author of several books, including "A Pocket Tour of
Kidstuff on the Internet," and "NetSavvy: Information Literacy in the
Communications Age." She contributed a piece to "Future Courses: A
Compendium of Thought about Education, Technology, and the Future,"
(Technos Press, Jason Ohler, ed., 2001), and is the editor of
“Snapshots! Educational Insights from the Thornburg
Center” (Starsong, 2003) and "Edutopia: Success Stories for
Learning in the Digital Age” (Jossey-Bass and The George
Lucas Educational Foundation, 2002). Sara also serves on the boards of
the National Storytelling Network and the Center for Accessible
Technology. She is an Associate of the Thornburg Center for
Professional Development, and a frequent national and international
speaker. Sara has been awarded a Gold Disk by California's CUE
(Computer-Using Educators, Inc.).
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Tom Greaves
Chairman of the Greaves Group
San Diego, California
Tom Greaves, Chairman of the Greaves Group, is a
highly regarded visionary with over 30 years experience in educational
technology. As a pioneer of technology in schools, he built a
prize-winning mechanical computer in the seventh grade and went on to
develop and market a diverse set of innovative products for IBM,
including desktop computers, personal science laboratory, curriculum
and network management products. Tom was
a leader of IBM’s dominance in distributed networking in
schools, and later co-founded NetSchools Corporation, which set the
standard for comprehensive, high performing1:1 e-learning solutions in
K-12 schools. He has participated in the development of over
100 award winning educational software and hardware products and holds
multiple patents and patent disclosures for educational products. Tom has
been the CEO of two educational companies and has served on the boards
of many others. He is a well-known keynote speaker and
panelist at national and state education conferences, particularly on
topics related to the future of technology in education. He
is the author of numerous articles and is often quoted on topics
related to future educational technology trends and strategic planning. Tom has
worked for over 20 years with school superintendents around the country
and has done considerable work at the policy level in public and
private meetings with governors, members of Congress, and their
staffs. He is widely connected in the educational technology
community
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Dan Lau
President and CEO of DANKA Enterprise
Orange County, California
With over 30 years of computer industry
experience, Dan serves as a technology consultant to school districts
and corporations in the acquisition and implementation of technology.
This service includes marketing technology based products, in the
design and implementation of hi-tech training and education solutions.
Functions include the recommendation and implementation of
hardware/software products as well as the development of specific
applications to solve user problems. Dan co-founded the SHARE
(School and Home Access to Resources for Education) consortium, a
collaborative project consisting of four unified school districts, a
two campus community college district, public libraries, the Orange
County Marine Institute, and the twenty-one campus California State
University system as well as a number of business partners formed to
connect learners to instructional, and informational resources wherever
it may reside. Some of Dan’s
clients include; Jostens Learning, Edunetics Inc., The California
Educational Technology Planning Commission (State of California),
William C. Norris Institute, Arthur Andersen & Co., Saddleback
Unified School District, Hueneme School District, GTE, Northern
Telecom, Dallas Independent School District, Mount Edegcumbe School
(Sitka, Alaska), Beverly Hills School District, San Diego DOE,
Capistrano Unified School District, Saddleback College, Newport Mesa
and Orange County DOE.
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Janine
Maletsky
Teacher and Trainer, New Jersey
Janine currently is the Computer Education
teacher at Lakeside Middle School in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
Students at Lakeside are learning how to use ClarisWorks, MicroWorlds,
HyperStudio, Claris HomePage, and more under Janine's supervision and
in correlation with the classroom teachers. She is active in both
district-wide technology training as well as serving as the instructor
for many ClarisWorks and HyperStudio workshops for the New Jersey
Educational Computing Consortium (NJECC).
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Don Mitchell
East Coast Liaison, Virginia
Don Mitchell entered civilian federal service in
1970 as a management intern at the Department of Agriculture. In 1972,
he moved to NSF, and began a career in contracting. In the mid-70s, he
developed a system for motion picture production which was adopted in
1977 for government-wide use, pioneered the use of support contracting
(before) and cooperative agreements (after) the inception of the Grant
and Cooperative Agreement Act and managed the first civilian agency
SBIR solicitation, as well as the first procurement which put a
microcomputer on the desk of every employee in a federal agency. In
1987, he left NSF's Division of Grants and Contracts to join the newly
formed division of Networking and Communications Research and
Infrastructure (NCRI) shortly before the beginning of the NSFNET
Program.
After joining NCRI in 1987, he applied the
experience gained from his previous activities to the networking
infrastructure programs in that organization. His personal experience
includes broad involvement in the programs and projects of that
activity (which many credit with changing data networking from an
arcane technology used by a small research community to the global
Internet we know today). He is also coauthor, with Kimberley Claffy and
Scott Bradner, of "In
whose domain:name service in adolescence."
In
addition to his role in NSFs major infrastructure activities, he was
personally responsible for the Global Schoolhouse Project, Cornell
University's (CU-SeeMe) Conferencing Software development and
Cells-in-Frames projects, the InterNIC, the
Internet Scout Project, Dave Hughes Wireless Field tests,
the National Laboratory for Applied
Networking Research, the
Internet Caching Project, the
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, the
National Center for Data Mining,the
very high performance Backbone Network
Service, and the High
Performance Wireless Research and Education Network.
During the period from June 1, 2000 through December 32, 2002,
he served on an IPA assignment to the National Computational Science
Alliance as Visiting Associate Director for Strategic
Collaborations. Located at
ACCESS, in Arlington, Virginia, he was
instrumental in moving the US-Russian High Performance Network project
to NCSA and establishing a formal partnership agreement with the Kurchatov Institute (the premier research institution in Russia). He
was also actively involved in the development of the
Multi-Sector
crisis Management Consortium.
Don retired from NSF in January 2002 and enjoys
fishing and reading. He remains active in projects involving
networking, wireless systems for field science, and education and has
recently joined the Board of the Global SchoolNet Foundation.
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Lisa
Stokes McBride, Ph.D.
Louisiana
Lisa McBride has experience teaching at the elementary, middle, high school, and university levels for over 28 years. She began working in online collaborative learning in the 1980’s with GTE WorldClassroom and AT&T Learning Network. Through grant writing efforts, she started the SOuthWEstLouisianA (sowela) Free Educational Mail Network node and served as a volunteer sysop and facilitated online learning projects for seven years. Elected to the Global SchoolNet Foundation Board of Directors in 1998, Dr. McBride is proud to continue to help provide quality online learning opportunities to teachers and students. Her special interest is in serving as an ambassador for Global SchoolNet and learning more about learning with technology around the world. McBride loves teaching and learning. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Leadership and Research with a minor in Educational Technology from Louisiana State University and is a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Mathematics. She currently serves as a facilitator for the Skills for Life Project and as a Visiting Lecturer at McNeese State University. The Skills for Life Project which is a collaboration between the St. Gobain Corporation which is the parent company of Certainteed, Training Resources of America, and Calcasieu Parish Schools provides technology-mediated instruction to math-delayed middle school students. When she’s not in the classroom, McBride enjoys travelling with her husband, Adam, and spending time with her family.
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