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JACQUE EWING-TAYLOR
University of Nevada Reno
College of Education #285
Reno, NV 89557
P: (775) 784-4921 x2366
F: (775) 784-4997
jacque@unr.edu
PT3
Position: Project Coordinator
Project
Learning Links |
Jacque
is the Project Coordinator for Project Learning Links and has taught
technology-heavy courses at the University of Nevada for the past seven
years. She has conducted numerous faculty development workshops for
those interested in incorporating technology into their courses and
operated a web design consulting business for five years. She brings
extensive management experience to the project and one of her goals is
to use her communications background to help demystify and simplify
technology for faculty and students. She acted as team leader for the CE
site visit at Old Dominion University and hosted the Learning Links
visit in Reno last February. She is looking forward to returning to
Denton to play with Theresa...and oh yeah, to see the totally cool stuff
Gerald and Rhonda do. |
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MIKE MUIR
University of Maine - Farmington
252 Main Street
Farmington, ME 04938
P: (207) 778-7179
F: (207) 778-7157
mmuir@maine.edu
PT3 Position: Project Director
Electronic
Guild Network
UMF's PT3 Project |
Mike is a professor of Middle
Level Education and Educational Technology at the University of Maine at
Farmington. He directs UMF's PT3 project, “The Electronic Guild
Network,” which created a new field based course for teacher
candidates, placing them with technology using teachers in the May Term
prior to their student teaching. Mike also works closely with the Maine
Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), Maine’s ambitious plan to give
schools enough wireless laptops for each of their 7th and 8th grade
students and teachers. Different from many other large scale technology
initiatives, MLTI is keeping the focus firmly on creating engaged
learning experiences using the wireless laptops and on providing
teachers with quality professional development. When not involved with
educational technology, Mike works with educators all over the country
on motivating underachieving students. Mike has written several
books and numerous articles on middle level education, educational
technology, or motivating underachievers. Mike is a former Middle School
Computer Integrator and refers to himself as a “recovering High School
Math teacher.” He has lived in Maine for 23 years and is married to a
middle school teacher. They have four children and a cat. |
NEAL TOPP
University of Nebraska/Omaha
Kayser Hall 208
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68182
P: (402) 554-2435
F: (402) 554-3491
topp@unomaha.edu
PT3
Position: Project Director
UNOmaha: Preparing Technology- Using Teachers |
Dr. Neal Topp is a
Varner Professor in the Teacher Education Department at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha. His professional activities focus on effective use of
technology in classrooms. He
has been involved with numerous research, development, and evaluation
projects, and teaches College of Education graduate courses dealing with
the topic. He is the
director of the UNOmaha Palm Research Hub, director the UNOmaha
Preparing Teachers to Use Technology project, co-director of the UNOmaha
Office of Internet Studies and is a leader in research and evaluation of
technology innovation, as he was the evaluator for two U.S. Department
of Education Challenge Grants and two PT3 projects.
Dr. Topp has collaboration efforts with Omaha area schools and
teachers, Nebraska Department of Education, the University of Virginia,
Iowa State University, and the University of Michigan.
He has presented at many conferences, including National
Educational Computing Conference (NECC), the Society for Technology in
Teacher Education (SITE), Iowa Technology & Education Connection (ITEC)
as well as several presentations to U.S. Department of Education
meetings, staff, and committees. His
publications list includes over 20 articles and he was named the UNOmaha
Varner Professor and the Nebraska Technology Professor of the Year.
He was an Iowa middle school educator for 20 years and has his
bachelors and masters degrees from Drake University and his doctorate
from Iowa State University.
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LEE VARTANIAN
Old Dominion University
151 Education Building
Norfolk, VA 23529
P: (757) 683-6459
F: (757) 683-5862
lvartani@odu.edu
PT3
Position: Site Coordinator/Director
ACTT Now: Aligning Certification with Technology Training |
Lee Vartanian is a doctoral candidate in
the Urban Studies program at Old Dominion University. For
the past two years, he has worked with the College of Education's ACTT
Now PT3 Grant program as a program coordinator. He has worked closely
with ODU methods faculty and their students in order to help involve
them with ACTT Now initiatives as well as recruiting, training, and
supervising ACTT Now student teachers. Lee received his master's degree
in early childhood education in 2001, from ODU, and his bachelor's in
social work, from Auburn University, in 1997. |
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