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Distinguished 2003 Judges
Bonnie
Bracey,
USA |
Yue-Chane
Hsing,
Taiwan |
Janette Toral,
Philippines |
William Chang,
USA |
Peter
Lelong,
Tasmania |
Arun Tripathi,
Germany |
Jacqueline Cheng,
Hong Kong |
Timothy Ngan,
Hong Kong |
Helen Wong,
Hong Kong |
Karen Eini,
Israel |
Don Mitchell,
USA |
Goh Beng
Yeow,
Singapore |
Mary Jean Eisenhower,
USA |
Lukas O
Ritzel,
Switzerland |
Swu-ching
Shelly Young,
Taiwan |
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Name: Bonnie
Bracey, United States of America Position:
Bonnie Bracey is a
teacher-agent of change, working on technology integration projects with
classroom teachers and national organizations. She also works
internationally with Global Information Infrastructure initiatives as a
consultant.
A former Fulbright Exchange Teacher in India and an elementary school
teacher in Virginia, Ms. Bracey was selected as a Christa McAuliffe
Educator by the National Education Association. She is also a Challenge
Center Fellow and an Earthwatch Fellow. She serves on the faculty of the Challenger Center and is a
NEWEST Graduate, Langley, and NEW graduate of Goddard Space Center.
Ms. Bracey is currently involved with two MIT projects: the Games
Project and Media, Education and the Marketplace. Ms. Bracey is a
frequent speaker at educational technology conferences and those
focusing on bridging the Digital Divide. Ms. Bracey serves on numerous
advisory boards including: Technos, The National Urban League, E-School
News, On the Horizon, African Schoolnet, CTCnet, the President's
National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, the White House
Technology Initiative-Cyber Ed., and the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education Task Force. She was the original
network director of the 21st Century
Teacher's Network and serves on the American Association for the
Advancement of Science's Kinetic City Advisory Board. She was co founder
of the Online Internet Institute, an NSF funded grant. She is a member
of the ISTE Minority task force.
She is involved in a digital equity project and a technology resource
project with the National Community Innovations projects which share
content with resources with
PT3
projects.
The National Institute for Community Innovations offers a
Digital Equity
Portal full of on-line resources for educators to increase digital
equity. Resources are organized by five dimensions of digital equity.
Nationally she also works with with the
Imagiverse
Project, and is a student of Ubiquitous Technology.
She was selected as one of the 25 most important women on the web, and
is a webby judge this year in the educational section.
Internationally, she produced the high technology and the indigenous
project for the Third World Summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, and works
with the Med Agora Project. Last year she worked in Africa in several
countries, Italy, Tunisia, Germany, and with the ECIS.
Website:
http://www.bracey-pearl.org/
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Name:
William Chang, United States Position:
Dr. Chang is senior program manager in the National Science Foundation's
Office of International Science and Engineering.
Website:
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Name:
Jacqueline Cheng, Hong Kong Position:
Ms. Cheng is the
CEO of HK Education
City Ltd, a wholly-own subsidiary of HK Education and Manpower
Bureau with its core business in running the largest online education
platform in HK. Its objectives are to support HK’s education and
curriculum reform, foster the use of technology in teaching and
learning, provide a platform for education markets / businesses to
develop online business opportunities so as to help HK moving to become
a learning city. Education City also maintain close ties with the
government, education, business and the community sector so as to
improve the utilization of HK education resource and foster better
knowledge sharing by providing a one-stop, healthy and quality
educational resource platform for the community in Hong Kong.
Website:
http://www.hkedcity.net
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Name:
Karen Eini, Israel Position:
Karen Eini has worked as an EFL educator ,teacher trainer
and educational materials developer in Israel since 1990. Ms. Eini is a
pioneer in telecollaborations and is actively involved in promoting the
benefits of online shared learning projects . She has authored an
Internet Guidebook for EFL teachers and lectures frequently in
technology conferences both in Israel and abroad. Ms Eini's portfolio
includes collaborative community building initiatives between youth
specifically in USA
and ISRAEL as well as
Technology Enhanced
English Language Enrichment Programs for learners in Israel and
Aboard.
Ms Eini has won several prestigious awards for the development of an
international network of thousands of educators and students through her
multi-cultural project Friends
and Flags. Ms Eini awards include Global
Junior Challenge, Rome 2003, Presidential Award for Reading and
Technology from International Reading Association ( 2003) and Global
SchoolNet Online Shared Learning Award in April 2002.
Website:
http://www.gsnaward.org/nomineeinfo/narratives/eini.html
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Name:
Mary Jean Eisenhower,
USA Position:
Mary Jean Eisenhower
was born in Washington, D.C. during her grandfather, Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s first term in office as President of the United States. As
the Executive Director of People to People International, Mary has
traveled extensively throughout US, Africa, Europe and Asia. She also
traveled through the lands of the D-day invasion during the centennial
anniversary of her grandfather’s birth. There she had the privilege of
traveling with and meeting many of the European veterans who served with
her grandfather. Over the last 4 years she has left US soil 31 times and
visited over 34 countries. Missions have included everything from
meeting first families to distributing food stuffs in developing
countries to cultural and humanitarian exchanges. .
In 1999 she started
the People to People International Friendship Fund inspired by an
orphanage she visited in Morocco. The fund is designed as a way for
people to help the friends and facilities they visit throughout the
world and to help the PTPI Chapter network to assist each other. To
date the fund has been able to provide assistance to causes such as
Children’s Mercy Hospital in London, England, Earthquake relief in
India, disaster relief to victims of September 11, 2001 and their
families, support of an underprivileged school in China, a home for
leukemia victims and their families in Cuba, a library project in Viet
Nam, among many others. One hundred percent (100%) of all funds
received through the International Friendship Fund go to the efforts and
projects as specified by the donors. Funds received for the IFF that
are not donor designated serve as applied and matching grants for relief
efforts throughout the globe. All IFF funds are distributed by means
of the People to People network, ensuring their distribution to the
proper recipients.
Website: http://www.ptpi.org/
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Name:
Yue-Chane
Hsing, Taiwan Position: Ms. Yue-Chane has been devoting herself to Children's
education for fifteen years. She has been an active author in Chinese children's
literature and has published eight books for kids. She was chief editor of science section
for the Chinese Children's Encyclopedia and for Kid's Monthly magazine. She was chief
editor of information page for the only children's newspaper in Taiwan, Mandarin Daily
News. She is currently the president of the
Dragon
Book Co. Ltd., as well as the producer of Digital New Education program, for the
Educational Broadcasting System
in Taiwan. She is also in charge of several internet based projects namely, the
Taiwan Schools Cyberexchange program, the 2000 Taiwan Schools CyberFair
program, the Kids Care for Kids program, and
the Bancroft and Arnesen Expedition
curriculum in Taiwan. She is currently a country coordinator in Taiwan
for
IEARN.
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Name:
Peter Lelong, Tasmania
Position:
Peter has been a teacher for twenty five years working in both Western
Australia and Tasmania teaching in the State Education, Catholic and
Independent school systems. Peter has taught for many years in both the
primary and Secondary school ages groups. For the past ten years Peter
has also worked part time as a computer consultant for the Non
Government schools sector in Tasmania developing Professional
Development programs for teaching staff to use with their students.
Peter's activities have included:
- Project Manager for the
installation of computer networks of Regional Catholic and Independent
schools in Tasmania
- Training teaching staff in
the use of Macromedia Web creation software
- Setting up Schools net (My
Internet) in all Catholic Primary and some Secondary schools
- Setting up of 24 web sites
based on five templates for schools wishing to have their own Internet
presence
- Member of the OPEN IT
committee charged with securing Commonwealth funding of 3.5 million
dollars to produce online learning objects. This board comprised
representatives from the Department of Education, TAFE, Non Government
and Catholic Education, Libraries and the University of Tasmania
- The Steel Boat yacht race
where students in Years 5 and 6 emailed the sailors sailing around the
world
- Creating an email link with
Mike Craven, a glaciologist sampling ice-cores as he trekked for three
months around the Lambert Glacier from Davis to Mawson
- Collaborative learning
via email with students
in Malang, Central Java, Indonesia
Website:
http://www.fahan.tas.edu.au
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Name:
Don Mitchell, United States of America
Position:
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.
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.
Website:
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/about/bio/donmitchell.htm
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Name:
Timothy Ngan Position:
Timothy Ngan is a Member of Professional Staff of Hong
Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI). He has
extensive knowledge and solid experience in developing and delivering
eLearning solutions for different sectors and target groups. His
expertise is mainly in the areas of multimedia application, Internet
technologies and system development. He was a Creative Production
Officer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he
managed a production team for online courseware development as part of
the School's Web-based Teaching project. He then joined eEd Vision Ltd,
a technology venture startup established under the University's
Entrepreneurship Program, as the Director of Technology. Hem joined
ASTRI in 2002 and is currently engaged in a R&D project to develop an
Internet-based phonics learning software for primary school students.
The software, titled "Sonic Ranger", is featured with voice recognition
technology that allows children to record their pronunciation and get
instant feedback from the computer on each phoneme of the recorded word.
Timothy has been invited for various speeches and teachings to share
his experience in eLearning with school teachers and the industries. He
received a BSc in Computer Science with Electronic Engineering from
University College London and a Certificate in Graphic Design from
SPACE, HKU. He is currently pursuing a Master degree in Technology
Management.
Website:
http://www.astri.org/home.html
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Name:
Lukas O Ritzel,
Switzerland Position:
Lukas Ritzel is a consultant for with
his own global consulting company
www.prasena.com.
With Prasena, Lukas fulfilled his dream of building his own company
covering academic,
business,
educational as well as
social aspects of the new
economy. He is involved in many
eLearning, Creativity
as well as Knowledge Management
related projects and is consultant and active speaker at various
Universities. Lukas is right now based in Thailand but will move within
the year 2003 back to his home country of Switzerland.
Rather than seeing himself as a Swiss or Thailand based professional,
Lukas sees himself as a virtual
cyber-citizen. However Lukas has lectured and contributed to
workshops in over 50 countries
and has worked with people from more than 80 nationalities. Lukas
has always been in education - for students at different schools as well
as for the corporate world; physically as well as virtual using
different virtual Internet collaboration tools. Lukas is famous for
flamboyant presentation style and his on-the-edge presentations with
lots of creativity and multiple usage of different media and inclusion
of his 'students'.
Right now, Lukas is part of the core team of
Global Learn Day
initiative, is an active part of NiceNet, represents South East Asia on
Creativity and
Innovation Day as well as is
working on various larger online proposals as a external consultant for
various universities in Bangkok such as Assumption, Thammasat and
Bangkok U.
His most recent larger teaching programs have been with Bangkok U on
a semester assignment for under-graduates on "Organizational
Behavior " and in collaboration
with the
Asian Institute of Technology
was giving a ten days customized workshop on "Managing
Organizational Change" for the
National Family Planning Coordination Board of Indonesia. Much more on
the more recent teaching projects Lukas was involved in can be visited
on the
Virtual U pages! Lukas'
ultimate goal in life is to contribute to a Global Free
university using multiple media to reach every single person in need of
education and transfer passive students to active and critical
investigators - read his latest
white paper and visit his latest
online presentation.
He speaks French, English, German, Thai
and some Laotian
Website:
http://www.prasena.com/public/cvlor.htm
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Name:
Arun Tripathi, Germany Position:
Arun Kumar Tripathi (network educator, philosopher and
facilitator) is a Director for the
World Association
for Online Education (WAOE), holding the Chair of Multilingual
Project. His research interests include e-learning, ubiquitous learning,
bodies in cyberspace & Virtual Reality, phenomenological concepts of
(bodies) embodiment in computer games, embodiment and its relation to
the world, phenomenological implications of e-learning, AI in learning
and education, and cognitive aspects of human-computer interactions.
Since August, he has been working in the Technical Philosophy
department, Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology.
Websites:
http://waoe.org/president/WAOE-founding.html
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$ Name:
Janette Toral,
Philippines Position:
Janette Toral is the
site owner of DigitalFilipino.com, an e-commerce, outsourcing, and
wireless research site that started in September 1999. The site was a
launch pad of her book, The DigitalFilipino: An E-Commerce Guide for the
eFilipino. She pushed for e-commerce development in the Philippines as
she founded the
Philippine Internet Commerce Society last September 1997. She lead
the organization as president from 1997 to 2002.
In 2002, she is the
chairman of the 1st Philippine E-Government Awards. A recognition given
to Philippine government agencies who came up with projects in
compliance with Republic Act 8792 or the E-Commerce Law. She
currently heads the initiative of coming up with the Philippine
E-Commerce Skills Standards Project using the APEC Tel E-Commerce Skills
Standards as a kernel. She's a recipient of the CyberFair Ambassador
Award, given by the Global SchoolHouse last June 1, 2002 in Taiwan,
recognizing the effort of bringing CyberFair in the Philippines.
CyberFair is an annual competition among students of primary and
secondary schools around the world.
As an IT
practitioner, she has more than 13 years of combined experience in the
areas of training, management, sales, technical support, web
development, event management, media relations, and project management.
She's also a freelance writer since 1995 writing about e-commerce and IT
developments in the Philippines. She has written articles for
international publications such as
Business Online,
asia.internet.com, and World Executive Digest. Since September 1997
to the present, she has been frequently invited to various IT
conferences in the country to talk about e-commerce developments in the
Philippines.
She is currently engaged in research, consulting, and working on a book
project documenting 10 years of the Internet in the Philippines to be
launched on March 2004.
Website:
http://www.digitalfilipino.com
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Name:
Helen Wong, Hong Kong Position:
Helen Wong is one of the Unit Heads of the
Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT) of
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). CELT is an
academic support unit dedicated to advancing the quality of learning and
teaching by fostering a continuous quality improvement culture within
HKUST and the wider education community. Internally, CELT strives to
nurture a collaborative and creative learning environment through
partnerships with departments, faculty, other teaching staff and
students at the University. Externally, the center strengthens
interactions with other education sectors through partnerships in
innovative teaching and learning projects.
Headed by Ms Wong, the
Programs
Unit
is responsible for planning, developing and organizing institutional
learning enhancement and teaching development programs for the
University and the wider education community. In the area of learning
enhancement, the Unit focuses its effort in programs concerning
creativity and life-long learning skills. For example, in addition to
offering
General Education Courses to university students, the Unit has been
running projects for both schools and university students. Currently,
the Unit leads a
University Grants Committee (UGC) funded project named “Interactive
Media Art Gallery” which aims to enhance students’ creativity
through media arts creation and involves over 1,400 school and
university students. In 2000-2002, the Unit led an online Mathematics
learning project named “MathVenture”
which is funded by the
Quality Education Fund. The Unit also runs self-financed programs
for school students in “Creative Thinking and Expression”. It also
manages a "Professional
Certificate in eLearning for Schools" program with the objective to
provide the latest knowledge and skills in the application of eLearning
strategies and technologies in school settings.
Prior to joining CELT, Ms Wong was involved in commercial businesses in
senior management level in manufacturing, finance and education. In
1997, she co-founded a private consulting company dedicated to promoting
Internet learning to parents, teachers and students. In 1998, she
initiated National Partnership with the International ThinkQuest Program
and led promotional effort in Hong Kong with endorsement by the then
Education Department resulting in participation growth of 95% within a
year of launching.
Website:
http://celt.ust.hk
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Name:
Goh Beng
Yeow, Singapore Position: Whether it
is the role of Student Leader, Ambassador or Technopreneur, Goh Beng
Yeow has fitted into these roles with ease and fulfilled his
responsibilities beyond the call of duty. At the age of 17, Beng Yeow
was appointed student ambassador of the International Schools CyberFair,
an International Webpage Design Competition with official entries from
more than 550,000 students from 3,500 schools in 85 countries around the
world.
Beng Yeow founded PDALive.com Pte Ltd in 2000 amidst the dot.com
boom, a start-up specializing in handheld and mobility solutions. The
company currently runs a PDA resource website for PDA users as well as
custom handheld and mobility Enterprise solutions. Today, three years
since his establishment of PDALive.com Pte Ltd, Beng Yeow is a seasoned
player in the Singapore IT industry, having weathered the dot.com fervor
and consequent crash while juggling between Singapore National Service
and the operations of his company. In order to meet new challenges in
the rapidly changing environment, Beng Yeow has undertaken a revamp of
his business and rebranded PDALive.com Pte Ltd, as XinDesign Pte Ltd.
XinDesign Pte Ltd specializes in Web, Mobile and Handheld Solutions
Development and integrates the latest technologies with corporate
marketing expertise in order to provide a new business solution for
valued clients.
Website:
http://www.xindesign.com
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Name:
Swu-ching Shelley Young, Taiwan Position:
Dr.
Shelley Shwu-ching Young is associate professor at National Tsing
Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. She received her M. A. degree in 1986 and
the Ph. D. degree in 1996, both in instructional design and technology
from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, U.S. A. After
returning from the States, in addition to fulfilling the requirements of
her primary post at the Center for General Education, because of her
expertise in cutting-edge multimedia and information technologies in
education, she has been also invited to assist in the establishment of
the Center of Teacher Education (since 1996), the Program of Information
and Mass Media Communications (since 1997) and the Institute of
Information Systems and Applications (since 2000). Currently she holds
joint appointments at the Center for General Education and the Institute
of Information Systems and Applications. Moreover, she held an
administrative position, division director, at the Computer and
Communication Center (CCC) of NTHU and was responsible for the setting
up of a new Multimedia and Learning Technology lab and a digital TV
studio from September 2001 to July 2002.
Since the 1990s she has
been engaged in research and teaching in the areas of instructional
technology and web-supported/web-based distance learning (e-learning)
with a special interest in the use of the Internet in higher education
and life-long learning and the integration of information technology in
teacher education. She has led numerous research projects, implemented
the
ALICE system (Asynchronous Learning in Interactive
Computer-network-supported Environments) and has been involved in the
well-known
Tsing Hua Web-based Science Museum and
Tsing Hua Virtual Knowledge Park since 1997. In addition, since 2000
she has participated in a significant national project entitled
“Four-year Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities”
with various universities, such as National Tsing Hua University--Advanced
Technologies and Applications for Next Generation Information
Communication Networks—A
Web-based Educational Park; and National Central University—EduCities
(A
Web-mediated School for People of All Ages). Since 2001 she has been
involved in the e-learning national project primarily funded by the
Ministry of Education (MOE) and the National Science Council (NSC). She
has published more than 40 journal and conference papers in the fields
of multimedia, educational technology and computer mediated lifelong
learning. She received Research Awards from the National Science Council
of Taiwan in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
She successfully
organized the joint
ICCE/ICCAI2000 Conference--International Conference on Computers in
Education/ International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction
held in Taipei, Taiwan, from Nov. 21-24, 2000 with 360 paper
presentations and the participation of over 500 scholars and educators
from 30 countries. Moreover, over the past years she has been invited to
give talks at many international conferences and local universities and
institutes/organizations, such as the keynote speaker of
GCCCE2003--Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education to be
held at Nanking, China, from May 16 to 18, 2003; invited speakers at the
Learning Technology Conference and Expo 2001, Taipei, September
27-30, 2001;
ICCE2001--International Conference on Computer in Education, Seoul,
Korea, being held from November 12-15, 2001;
SITE2001--Society for Information and Technology and Teacher
Education, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., March 5-10, 2001; and keynote
speaker at the SchoolNet2000, Pusan, Korea, August 4-5, 2000.
In addition, she is the
Subject External Examiner of Information Technology for a university in
Hong Kong for the 2002 to 2005 academic years and she has served as
consultant to many organizations, including the Computer Center of the
Ministry of Education (Master Plan of Information Technology in
Education); Education Department of Taipei Municipal Government
(Information Technology Advisory Committee); Hsin-chu Information
Software and Web-based Learning Resource Center; and
International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF),
Taiwan &
World Links, Washington, D. C., USA, on reviewing an international
e-learning joint project 2002. She has been on the Review Board of
Taiwan School CyberFair, serving as the School Fair judge in 2001,
2002 and 2003 and was also on the Review Board of Taiwan National
Webpage Contest on Charity, Technology and Humanity organized by the
Chinese Professional Management Association of Hsin-chu, Taiwan.
She has been active in
local and international professional associations. Since 1999 she was
elected Executive Committee member of the Asia Pacific Chapter of the
Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE-APC).
She is currently on the Editorial Board committee of the Journal of
Technology, Pedagogy and Education (JTPE), UK, since 1992 (formerly
Journal of Information Technology in Teacher Education (JITTE).
Website:
http://alice.gec.nthu.edu.tw/Shelley/
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