Who We Are
(in
alphabetical order)
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Mark Bailey | Ilene R. Berson | Bonnie
Blagojevic |
Warren
Buckleitner |
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Douglas Clements
| Chip
Donohue | Sue Griebling | |
Lynn Hartle
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| Sharon Hirschy |
Candace Jaruszewicz |
Linda Robinson
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Judy van Scoter
|
Jocelynn
Smrekar |
X. Christine
Wang |
Mark
Bailey has been exploring the use of pedagogically powerful technological tools
to support early childhood education for the past 25 years. As a cofounder of
the Oregon Technology in Education Network, he has collaborated on writing and
administering two funded Federal grants: Preparing Tomorrowās Teachers to Use
Technology (PT3), and a Technology Quality Enhancement Partnership (TQEP) grant.
His work has included explorations of collaborative learning tools and he has
written and presented about the manner in which technology should be used with
young children.
Mark did his undergraduate work in ECE and Psychology
at Grinnell College and then taught preschool and kindergarten for 7 years. While
completing his doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin
he worked on the NICHD Study of Early Childcare. For the past 13 years Mark has
been a professor in the Pacific University College of Education. He currently
serves as Director of the Child Learning and Development Center he developed on
Pacificās Forest Grove campus, as well as the ECE specialist for graduate and
undergraduate students.
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Ilene R. Berson, Ph.D., NCSP is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Childhood Education and Literacy Studies at the University of South Florida. She has extensive experience working with children ages birth to eight, and she is a nationally certified and state licensed school psychologist. Her research focuses on prevention and intervention services for young children at imminent risk for socio-emotional challenges associated with child maltreatment and other traumatic events. She leads collaborative reform initiatives, forging linkages between early childhood, child welfare, and health care systems, as well as international studies on the engagement of young children with digital technologies. Dr. Berson has extensively published books, chapters, and journal articles and has presented her research worldwide. She has been the principal investigator on funded grants totaling over $2.1 million. Dr. Berson embodies the characteristics of an engaged scholar who works closely in reciprocal relationships with practitioners and policymakers to develop innovative solutions for emerging and long term issues to promote young children's well being.
Ilene
R. Berson, Ph.D., NCSP
Associate Professor,
Early Childhood Educations,
College of Education,
University of South Florida,
4202
East Fowler Avnue, EDU 162
Tampa,
Florida 33620-5650
(813)
974-7698
Fax (813)
974-0938
iberson@coedu.usf.edu
www.coedu.usf.edu
Bonnie has over 20 years experience as an early education professional working with children in a variety of settings, including a high school lab preschool, a University childcare setting, a family childcare home and a nonprofit childcare center.
Bonnie is currently working as a research associate at The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service: (http://www.ccids.umaine.edu/). She works on a variety of projects, including the Growing ideas Tip sheets.
Bonnie contributed to the development of the NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum web site project "Technology and Young Children" and continues to be involved on the Webmaster team.
Her email address is: Bonnie.Blagojevic@umit.maine.edu
Warren
Buckleitner is the editor of Children's Technology Review. He is a former preschool
teacher and High/Scope Consultant. He teaches at Rutgers and NYU and is a frequent
speaker at teacher conferences. He writes for the New York Times, Scholastic Parent
& Child, Child Care Information Exchange and Parents. He is the father of two
daughters.
Warren@childrenssoftware.com
Dr.
Clements, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Early Childhood, and Computer
Education at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, was a kindergarten
teacher for five years and a preschool teacher for one. He received a Ph.D. in
Elementary Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1983.
He has conducted research and published widely in the areas of the learning and
teaching of geometry, computer applications in mathematics education, the early
development of mathematical ideas, and the effects of social interactions on learning,
especially in computer environments.
He has co-directed several projects
funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), producing Logo Geometry, Investigations
in Number, Data, and Space, and Building Blocks-Foundations for Mathematical Thinking,
Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2: Research-based Materials Development (http://www.buildingblocks.org).
In this last project, Building Blocks, Julie Sarama and Clements have developed
mathematics software and activities for young children published by SRA/McGraw-Hill.
Along with Julie Sarama, he has been funded by a series of projects by
the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to test
first the effectiveness of, and the "scalability" of the Building Blocks materials.
In the current large scale research project, Scaling Up TRIAD: Teaching Early
Mathematics for Understanding with Trajectories and Technologies, Sarama and Clements
are using technologies at three levels: research, professional development for
teachers, and the Building Blocks software for young children. He is a member
of President Bush's National Math Panel and the author of the technology component
of the report of that Panel. Active in the NCTM, he is editor and author of the
NCTM Addenda materials and was an author of NCTM's Principles and Standards for
School Mathematics (2000) and NCTM's Curriculum Focal Points (2007). He was chair
of the Editorial Panel of NCTM's research journal, the Journal for Research in
Mathematics Education.
His e-mail address is clements@buffalo.edu;
additional information can be found at http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/FAS/Clements/index.htm.
Chip
Donohue, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Early Childhood Professional
Development & Leadership in the School of Continuing Education at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he teaches face-to-face and online courses leading
to a Certificate in Child Care Administration. He is currently developing an online
early childhood bachelor's degree completion program at UWM, an online director
credential with the McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership, and
is consulting with Erikson Institute. With Selena Fox of New Zealand Tertiary
College, he is co-hosting the Working Forum for Teacher Educators and developing
ecelearn, an innovative online approach for early childhood teacher education.
His email address is: cdonohue@uwm.edu
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Susan
Griebling is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University
of Cincinnati. Sue has 10 years of teaching experience in early childhood and
12 years of administrative experience at Head Start. Sue teaches early childhood
courses both online and on campus, for UC Early Childhood program. She is currently
enrolled in the Special Education doctorate program at the University of Cincinnati
and is a facilitator with an Ohio Department of Education study group of the Reggio
Approach. She has an added interest in the use of technology in the early childhood
classroom.
Her email address is: grieblsj@ucmail.uc.edu
Lynn
Hartle
Remember Commodore 64 computers? Š our preschoolers
used these back in early 80ās with LOGO! Remember, the first MacIntosh computers?
- thatās where our school management and finances was processed! After 10years
of teaching young children in both Michigan and as a Directress, teacher, founder
of a Montessori Childrenās House in Cookeville, TN, the families provided much
support for me to continue my terminal degree and pursue higher education. I have
enjoyed teaching undergraduate and graduate Early Childhood and Early Childhood
Special Education courses in every area. My research areas include teaching diverse
learners and my service work with community agencies leads me to other research.
In the past 20+years, I have gone through many computer upgrades and every electronic
toy, I can buy. Rarely do the college students call; they email and I lead them
through their needs and around their busy schedules. As of this year, I rarely
see the students and feel more connected than ever through my online or partially
online, field experience-based classes.
Lynn Hartle, Ph.D. (check out these websites for great info about EC at UCF)
Early childhood teacher education: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~eceucf/
Infant Toddler Developmental Specialist: ~http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~eiucf/
Associate Professor, Program Coord.
Early Childhood Teacher Education,
University of Central Florida
hartle@mail.ucf.edu
Sharon
Hirschy is Professor of Child Development and Education at Collin College in Plano,
Texas. She has worked with children for over thirty years. She has been a child
care consultant, social worker, public school teacher, child care administrator
and teacher, and parent educator. Her main areas of interest and research have
been technology and parent education. She is a Certified Family Life Educator
and has authored many materials for parents and educators on children's development.
She teaches courses online as well as in the classroom, and serves on
the Online Advisory Board at Collin, which reviews and approves online courses
for the college. She has a particular interest in training early childhood educators
in the use of technology for themselves and the children in their classroom.
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I have been an early childhood teacher educator and off-and-on campus child development center program director since 1987 and did my Ph.D. work in Curriculum and Instruction at Kent State University. My interest in technology has been ongoing since the 'pre-mouse' days when we used to struggle with commands and I used to have to entice students with all kinds of rewards to get them to even try to use the web! I quickly realized the benefits of electronic communications and was one of the first faculty members at my university to use online courseware. I am currently the director of a campus demonstration/lab preschool that is Reggio-inspired. My focus now is ways in which digital technologies and Web 2.0 tools can be used for (a) visual documentation of student learning and teacher professional development, (b) communicating information about our curriculum and program initiatives, and (c) managing the assessment and folio development processes for NAEYC re-accreditation of our program.
Candace Jaruszewicz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, College of Charleston
Director,
N.E. Miles Early Childhood Development Center
http://www.cofc.edu/~child/
jaruszewiczc@cofc.edu
(843) 953-5606
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Linda Robinson has worked in early childhood and assistive technology since 1983. she is the Assistant Director of the Center for Best Practices in Early childhood at Western Illinois University and an adjunct member in the Instructional Design and Technology Department. She has been a director; coordinator, technology trainer, and curriculum specialist on a number of federally funded projects at the Center and has a Masters of Science in Early Childhood Education degree. Linda has worked directly with children; birth to six years, and families on technology applications and as a technology assessment team member. She has contributed to three curricula, a technology assessment manual, resource manuals, instructional videotapes, software, CD-ROM products, and web-based training materials. She has been a presenter at national and international conferences and has conducted technology workshops for early childhood personnel throughout the country.
Linda
Robinson,
Center
for Best Practices in Early Childhood,
WIU, 32 Horrabin Hall,
Macomb,
Illinois 61455,
309-298-1634 ext. 250,
L_Robinson1@wiu.edu
Center's website is http://www.wiu.edu/thecenter/
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Judy van Scoter
Judy
has been involved with education for more than 20 years in a variety of positions.
In many years of working with children as a classroom teacher she learned firsthand
the power of technology in the hands of children, and the opportunities it offers.
Judy has extensive experience providing professional development for educators,
and has written on effective and appropriate use of technology with young children.
Jocelynn is an Associate Professor of Education and teaches early childhood education classes at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. from Penn State in Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in Early Childhood Education (1994) and a master's degree from Penn State in Bilingual-Early Childhood Education (1990). Her areas of expertise in early childhood include creative activities, language and literacy development, particularly in English Language Learners.
The 2006-07 academic year marks her ninth year at Clarion. While at Clarion she has worked extensively with the NCATE and NAEYC Accreditation Standards as both a faculty member and committee member. As a committee member, she has been involved in redesigning Clarion's early childhood degree programs to be aligned with the standards. As a faulty member, she has taught the standards on a daily basis, as they are imbedded in the coursework in both the Early Childhood Associate's Degree Program and in the Early Childhood Bachelor's Degree Program.
Jocelynn has continued to develop professionally through attendance at Early Childhood Governor's Institutes in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and she served as a facilitator at the Early Childhood Governor's Institute at Juniata College in 2003. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Alliance of 2-Year and 4-Year Colleges, PA Affiliate of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, and PennAEYC. She is well acquainted with other early childhood professionals in Pennsylvania and currently serves on the Board of PennAEYC as an At-Large member. She will serve PennAEYC in the coming year as Vice-President of Membership.
In addition to nine years teaching at Clarion, her other experiences include three years as a preschool teacher at Penn State's Cedar Child Development Center, one year as Executive Director of Siler Children's Learning Complex, and one year as assistant chair of the Education Department.
Prior to coming to Clarion, she was an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University--Kingsville 1994-1998 where she was the Coordinator of both the Graduate and Undergraduate Early Childhood Programs and a successful technology grant writer. While at TAMUK she laid the foundation for and established the $1,000,000 King Ranch Family Trust Early Education Center, as well as, serving as the center's first Coordinator.
She has a husband and three grown children. Her hobbies are birdwatching, gardening, growing orchids, and singing with a contemporary choir.
Dr. Wang is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education (ECE) at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received her Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003.
She is interested in technology in young children's learning and social development, and ECE teacher education. For her dissertation, she investigates young children's social construction of their computer experiences in the classroom.
She is also involved in several other projects, such as evaluating children's websites, providing training and support to teachers in a high-need local elementary school, and teaching pre-service teachers to evaluate educational software and to develop electronic teaching portfolio. In the past, she participated in several online educational technology projects while working as a research assistant with the Technology Research Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications from 1998 to 2000.
Christine is the current webmaster for the NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum web site project, "Technology and Young Children" and the Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association
She can be reached at wangxc@buffalo.edu; additional information can be found at http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/fas/wang/
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