For over 20 years, Peterson has been active in education as a classroom teacher, university instructor, pre-service and in-service teacher educator, program administrator, and researcher. Serving as Western Washington University’s first ”Internet Librarian,” she assisted teacher education faculty and students in the integration of technology into K-12 classroom teaching. She currently serves on the board of TrueChild, a research and action center devoted to challenging and transforming gender stereotypes and their impact on young people so they achieve their full potential. A graduate of the University of Washington, Bothell campus, her Master’s thesis focused on gendered attitudes towards computer use in education.

I can confirm that after the hour we spent with Gary Stager today…he is absolutely, 100% real.

Not that I ever doubted.

#believe

Prior to establishing her own consulting firm, Susan was a teacher, site administrator, and technology specialist in a county office of education in a career that spanned more than 23 years. Since 1986, she has published articles and software reviews in a variety of education journals. She is also author of eight books which focus on education technology and leadership.

Susan works with educators internationally, focusing on practical technology-based strategies for personal productivity and effective technology implementation in schools, including mobile technologies running iOS or Android OS.

Friday, September 30, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

Sal Contes is an Assistant Principal with the Poughkeepsie City School District in New York. Sal joins us on this episode to talk a bit about the recent School CIO forum hosted by TechLearning magazine.

While Julia Fallon is out bass fishing with her buddies, John sits down with Dean Shareski and discusses “busy”, Rough Rider football, and pets.

Friday, September 9, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

Pedagogical Consultant with the Lester B. Pearson School Board, on loan to Simon Fraser University. Working in teacher inquiry with the Field Programs Department. Conseiller pédagogique avec la commission scolaire Lester B. Pearson, en prêt de service avec L’Université Simon Fraser. J’accompagne les professeurs qui poursuivent des enquêtes dans leurs pratique. #opensource #openlearning

Friday, September 2, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

I am an educational experimentalist. My teaching style is an eclectic blend of constructivist pedagogy fused with social learning theory that allows me to facilitate interesting experiences that peak my students’ curiosity and desire to know more. If it involves helping others learn, I love trying it out. In my field, there is no way to be an expert at everything, so I am an expert at learning and at setting up engaging educational experiences. I am great at connecting people to the resources they need and at connecting people to other people. It’s so much more fun that way!

Friday, August 26, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

Jennifer Wagner, creator of ProjectsByJen, has been successfully encouraging teachers since 1999 to use online projects in their PreK-6 classrooms. Using various ideas, Jennifer will help you understand how online projects will help you make the most of your time in a variety of ways. Winning numerous awards for her creative ways in encouraging teachers to collaborate, her teaching style is very user friendly, creative, and personable.

Friday, August 19, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

Jose Luis Vilson is a math teacher, coach, and data analyst for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in mathematics education from the City College of New York. A New York City Teaching Fellows, Jose Vilson spoke at the NYCTF Induction Ceremony in 2007 in Lincoln Center. He has worked on developing professional development for his fellow teachers on such topics as working on goals for the classroom and using educational data systems. Through his work as an educator, he’s developing a citywide and national voice for all teachers, working with groups such as the Teacher Leaders Network and the General Electric Fund to promote new ideas for educators, creating assessment tasks, and developing curriculum maps.

When not working on these occupations, he’s also a committed poet, writer, web designer, and community organizer. He co-authored the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do For Our Students and Public Schools … Now and In The Future with Dr. Barnett Berry and 11 other accomplished teachers. He currently serves as the president of the Latino Alumni Network of Syracuse University, as a board member on the Board of Directors for the Center for Teaching Quality, and has served as board member for Media Make Change, an organization committed to the integration of social justice and social media. He’s part of the first cohort of Acentos Fellows as part of the Acentos Foundation, and a member of LATinos In Social Media (LATISM), the Capicu Poetry Group, BlogCritics, and the AfroSpear.

Friday August 5, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

As FableVision’s Co-Founder & President, Gary Goldberger is torchbearer of the company’s mission, setting strategic goals and building cross-industry partnerships and alliances, with a special focus on digital gaming – including PBS/PBS Kids, MIT Education Arcade, Nickelodeon/Noggin, Scholastic/Weston Woods, and Jim Henson Productions. Gary is a strong believer in the possibility and potential of digital media to help solve the worlds’ most pressing problems, along with using media & technology to making learning more engaging for young and old alike.

One of the leaders of Games for Change-New England, Gary speaks nationally about positive uses of gaming in education and other pro-social applications. In Boston, he has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office and the Governor’s Office to identify resources and programs that will help establish Boston as the hub of digital gaming.

Friday July 29, 2011 – 11:30am CDT

Melanie McBride is a Toronto-based early adopter, educator and digital culture specialist exploring emergent learning, literacy and play. In 2010, she joined Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab where she is researching and writing about autonomous learning and play in situated, informal gaming and digitally-mediated social environments and affinity spaces. Melanie is also at work on a book about the hidden curriculum of emergent learning, literacies and educational paradigms (spring 2012). Melanie has taught secondary (high school), post-secondary, industry, alternative, at-risk and adult education. When she is not writing and researching she can be found raiding and pvping in World of Warcraft or flooding things in Minecraft.

Interactive New Media

Prior to becoming a teacher, Melanie was an active participant in online life and culture and worked for over a decade as an interactive new media storyteller. Her research, writing and ideas have contributed to award-winning e-learning and interactive new and trans-media projects with government, national media and educational clients including: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Trapeze Media, Phantom Compass, Learning Agents, Mystus Exhibits and distinguished museum clients in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Melanie’s interactive histories for the CBC Archives projecthave repurposed by teachers for use in Canadian classrooms and are cited as primary sources in histori.ca and wikipedia. Melanie has written about technology and culture forMindjack Magazine, Howard Rheingold’s Smartmobs and her blog at melaniemcbride.net. Her ideas and blog posts are frequently cited by leading technologists, educators, educational press and included many course syllabi and presentations.

Education and Teaching

Melanie holds a Specialist degree (BA Hons) in English Literature from University of Toronto and an Intermediate/Secondary teaching degree (B.Ed) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Melanie has also attended Ryerson University for media studies and received a post-graduate certificate in online writing and information design at The Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College. Melanie will begin an MA in York/Ryerson University’s joint graduate program in Communication and Culture in 2012.

From 2005 to 2009, Melanie designed and taught post-graduate professional courses in interactive writing, social and participatory media and online publishing as a part-time faculty member at Centennial College’s Centre for Creative Communications. In 2009, Melanie joined the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) as an Intermediate/Secondary Media Arts teacher working with at-risk youth aged 18-20.

Speaking and consulting

As a speaker, Melanie has appeared at The National Inner City Educators conference, The Canadian Association of Communicators in Education (CACE), Trillium Lakelands School Board, Magazines Canada’s Web Weekend series, The Atlantic Magazines Association conference and various industry and PD workshops. As a consultant, Melanie has provided social and participatory content and learning strategies for education, online publishing, advocacy and entertainment media.

Research Interests

Social justice, situated informal learning, gaming/game culture, MMOs and multiplayer games, virtual and persistent worlds, transmedia, remix and maker culture, Open technology, Open education, critical pedagogy, critical theory, hidden and null curriculum, privacy

Jen Orr, a first grade teacher from northern Virginia, will be joining us to talk about being a first grade teacher, parent, and “edtech” person.  Her blog, “Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It” can be found at http://emdffi.blogspot.com/.  We’ll be bugging her about her takeaways from ISTE 2011 and her recent experiences at the Northern Virginia Writing Project Summer Institute.

Justin Baeder is a public elementary school principal in Seattle and a doctoral student at the University of Washington.

His professional and research interests focus on principal performance and productivity, and are guided by the belief that one of the most effective ways to improve student learning is by empowering principals to become more effective in their core work.

Justin writes about educator performance at Education Week, and speaks on principal performance and productivity at conferences and professional development sessions for school leaders.

To get in touch with Justin, please use the contact form or send an @ reply on Twitter to@eduleadership.