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Distinguished 2004 Judges
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Name:
Pat Corby, Australia Position:
Pat is
currently regarded as one of Tasmania’s most experienced online
educators, delivering courses to students within her own school and as a
teacher within the Tasmanian Online School Campus to students in other
schools using WebCt technologies. She is a regular participant in
professional discussions online as well as a facilitator of
opportunities for both students and teachers to share experience and
resources through forum boards and email exchanges. Pat has mentored
many students towards achieving success through her commitment to the
use of ICT within classrooms. Her work has been recognised for its
flair and innovation within her own Educational Department as well as by
researchers from SOCCI (Schools
Online Curriculum Consultation Initiatives, Australia)
and the ACER (Australian
Council of Educational Research). Her project ‘The Virtual Bridge”
assisting students smooth transition from primary to secondary school
was chosen by ACER as an Australian exemplary project for inclusion in
the Second International IT in Education Study. This research has been
published in Tasmania, on the Australian mainland and online by Webzine
Korea. In 2004 Pat is acting as a moderator in a large International
Course “Teaching and Learning in
Virtual Learning Environments” organised by Saarland University as a
research project funded by the EU.
Pat was also a judge here in 2002. Pat is a hands-on, energetic
committed teacher - ICT is not an “add-on” to her. Rather it is a major
new learning paradigm and she has been able to translate its
opportunities into a range of effective classroom actions over the past
seven years.
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Name:
Arun Tripathi, Germany Position:
Arun Kumar Tripathi (network educator,
philosopher and cyber theorist) is a Director for the World Association
for Online Education (WAOE), holding the Chair of Multilingual Project.
Arun Tripathi is an adjunct researcher for Instructional Systems
Research & Development, inc. (ISRD), working from Dresden, Germany. His
research interests include kinesthetic aspects of cyberspace & Virtual
Reality, phenomenological concepts of embodiment in computer simulations
and educational games, phenomenological implications of e-learning,
ubiquitous learning, A.I. in learning and education, and cognitive
aspects of human-computer interactions. Arun Tripathi is a graduating at
the Department of Philosophy of Technology, Institute for Philosophy,
Dresden University of Technology and working in-collaboration with
Department of Computer Science on a European Project, "Future of
Identity in the Information Society (FIDIS), Network of Excellence (NoE)."
Websites:
http://waoe.org/president/WAOE-founding.html
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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:
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:
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.comtop
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Name:
Joanna
Bialobrzeska, Poland Position:
Joanna Bialobrzeska is a co-owner (with
her husband) and Managing Director of a private elementary school and a
preschool in Warsaw and also co-owner of a publishing house DIDASKO. She
has been an active elementary and preschool teacher for over 16 years as
well as an active author in children's literature. She has published
whole range of schoolbooks for children ages three through ten. Her
schoolbooks have been highly recognized and honored by the teachers and
are also considered exceptional and “cool” by
children. Mrs. Bialobrzeska’s schoolbooks are used in nearly 40% of
Polish preschools and kindergartens and elementary schools. She has a
way of seeing the best in each child and this has an impact on her own
books. Her dedication to kids is the heart of everything she does. She
loves teaching and it shows.
Joanna also works
with children’s and family’s monthly magazines as a consultant. She has
been a consultant and an author of articles for several web sites
dedicated to children, parents and teachers. She is a frequent speaker
at educational teachers conferences and those focusing on active
learning and designing to meet the developmental needs of each child.
Joanna holds a M.A. degree in pedagogic and
education from Warsaw University.
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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: 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. She does outreach teaching with the George Lucas Educational
Foundation. 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 served on
the faculty of the Challenger Center and is a NEWEST Graduate, Langley,
and NEW graduate of Goddard Space Center. She is a longtime advocate of
science, math , engineering and technology learning for children at an
early age. 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 has served 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 and
has several listservs, one for digital equity, one through her
participation with gender equity through teacher tech at Rice
University, and one through the MIT channels on technology outreach.
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
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. She has worked in 17
countries around the world and this year was honored for this work.
Bonnie Bracey, a change agent
and inspirational outstanding advocate for teachers, kids, and teacher
educators was recognized for Outstanding Service to Digital Equity at
the SITE 2004 Conference. Bonnie has been an important contributor to
the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
Symposium on Digital Equity since its inception bringing her passion to
bear on the core of educational renewal: teacher education. Sir John
Daniel, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO presented her
award.
Website:
www.tcp.org
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Name:
Andy
Carvin, United States of America Position:
Andy Carvin is Program Director at the EDC Center for Media & Community,
where he runs the
Digital
Divide Network, an online community for activists working to bridge
the digital divide. He is the author of the pioneering online education
resource EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform. Named by
NetGuide magazine as "One of the Top 50 Places to Go Online," EdWeb was
one of the first websites to advocate the use of the World Wide Web in
education. Andy is also the founder and moderator of WWWEDU, the
Internet's oldest and largest email forum on the role of the Web in
education, and DIGITALDIVIDE, the Internet's premiere discussion group
for digital divide issues.
Andy was named in 1999
by eSchoolNews magazine as a member of the Impact 30, an annual list
highlighting 30 of the most influential people in education technology
today. He is a former board member of the Consortium for School
Networking (CoSN), which advocates policies regarding the role of
information technology in schools. From 1999 to 2001, he sat on the
Board of Directors for the Asia/Pacific Center for Justice and Peace, a
consortium of NGOs that promotes democracy, free speech and freedom of
religion across Asia.
Andy holds a
bachelor of science in rhetoric with a minor in religion and a master of
arts in telecommunications from Northwestern University, where he
received the prestigious Annenberg/Washington Graduate Fellowship. While
living in Illinois, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Chicago
area arts weekly, Art+Performance magazine. In his free time, Andy has
traveled extensively around the world and has written about his
adventures in popular online travelogues, most recently through his blog,
Andy
Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. Andy is an avid amateur genealogist;
his successful use of DNA testing to explore his family's lineage was
profiled in a January 2001 cover story of US News and World Report. And
in 2002, he and his wife completed production of "Thai Boxing: A
Fighting Chance," an independent documentary that has aired in more than
140 countries on the National Geographic Channel.
Website:
www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog
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Name:
Janet
Feldman, United States of America
Position:
Janet Feldman is the founder/director of two
HIV/AIDS-related organizations--KAIPPG/International, an HIV/AIDS
nonprofit whose parent organization is in Kenya, and ActALIVE, an
international arts coalition composed of groups and individuals who use
the arts to address HIV/AIDS--and has also been the co-creator of
several ICTs-related projects in the areas of health, nutrition,
education, women's empowerment, and poverty alleviation. Her background
is in the arts and international diplomacy--with a specialization in
conflict resolution--and she has worked in a mediation program, been
the director of a public arts space, and been an arts consultant. She is
a volunteer for several educational endeavors in Haiti, has recently
finished a stint as news director for the international music festival,
One World Beat, and has served as an adviser/ally to youth-related
organizations such as the II IYSCA and AIDS2004Youth.
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Name:
John Hibbs, United States
of America
Position: John Hibbs is the Founder of the Benjamin Franklin
Institute of Global Education. John has spent nearly 20 years abroad in
Asia, Europe and the Middle East. John became the Managing Partner for a
highly unusual American magazine which was published in six languages in
45 countries. He then built "United Amusements," an import/export
company specializing in software distribution for the video game
business into the leading firm of its kind the industry.
John holds a History degree from the University of Oregon, an MBA in
Finance from the Golden Gate University, and was a member of Special
Forces while serving in the U.S. Army. In Prague from 1991 to 1995, John
developed an Export Management Course and Curriculum which was
subsequently taught by Americans in the Czech Republic, Hungary,
Slovakia, Poland, the Baltics and parts of the former Soviet Union.
Website:
http://www.bfranklin.edu/
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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:
Bob Pearlman, United States of
America Position:
Bob Pearlman has been
a key leader of educational reform efforts nationally in a unique
30-year career as a teacher, Co-Director of Computer Education, teacher
union leader and negotiator, Foundation President, and Director of
Education and Workforce Development. Pearlman’s experience and expertise
includes Whole District Reform, New School Development,
Business-Education Partnerships and coalitions, School-to-Career and
Workforce Development, Union—School District Negotiations, School
Restructuring and Technology, Project-Based Learning, Professional
Development, Educational Finance, and School-site Assessment and
Accountability.
Pearlman is currently the Director of Strategic Planning for the
New
Technology Foundation in Napa, CA, which supports the replication of
New Technology
High School in twenty-four sites across Northern California,
Southern California, and the United States. Additionally Pearlman is a
Strategy Consultant for education reform, assisting key reform
initiatives around the country. Among these are
Sacramento's e21 high
school reform initiative, and
LINC 2 the
Future, Boston's new 5-year technology plan for the schools and the
community. He is the former President of the
Autodesk Foundation
and former Director of Education and Workforce Development at
Joint Venture:
Silicon Valley Network.
Pearlman previously served as Coordinator of Educational Reform
Initiatives for the Boston
Teachers Union. As the former National Consultant on Educational
Technology for the American
Federation of Teachers and as a founder of the
Co-NECT School New
American School Design Team, Pearlman has been a pioneer in
designing new schools, integrating project-based learning, work-based
learning, and technology into the schools, and in training teachers,
administrators, and parents in the application of new technologies and
their role in restructuring schools.
Pearlman has been a leader in building coalition organizations that
bring together educators, business, labor, and community leaders to
support education reform. Key coalition organizations have included the
Bay Area
School-to-Career Action Network (BaySCAN), the
California
School-to-Career Action Network (CalSCAN),
Business and
Education for Schools and Technology (B.E.S.T.), and the
Boston
Compact. The National Alliance of Business named BaySCAN its 1998
Local Coalition of the Year.
Website:
http://www.bobpearlman.org
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Name:
Steve Wolff, United States of America Position:
Stephen Wolff is Stephen Wolff is Technical
Manager for Extramural Research Programs in the Academic Research and
Technology Initiatives group at Cisco Systems. Before joining Cisco in
1995, he was Division Director for networking at the National Science
Foundation (NSF). In this position he was responsible for NSF's program
of basic research in networking and communications, as well as for the
development of NSFNET, the nation's first computer network open to the
general academic community for the support of research and education.
Dr. Wolff is a member of AAAS and ACM, a Pioneer Member of the Internet
Society (ISOC), and a Life Member of IEEE.
Website:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/arti/
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