Who We Are
(in alphabetical order)

| Mark Bailey | Diane Bales | Ilene R. Berson | Bonnie Blagojevic | Warren Buckleitner |
| Douglas Clements | Chip Donohue | Sue Griebling | Lynn Hartle|
| Sharon Hirschy | Candace Jaruszewicz | Gail Lovely | Linda Robinson |
| Dina Rosen | Emily Jackson Sanborn | Jocelynn Smrekar | X. Christine Wang |

Mark Bailey

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 Tomorrowâs 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 Pacificâs Forest Grove campus, as well as the ECE specialist for graduate and undergraduate students.

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Diane Bales

Diane Bales is an Associate Professor of Child and Family Development and an Early Childhood Specialist with Cooperative Extension at the University of Georgia. Diane has mor than 15 years of experience in early childhood development and education in a variety of settings, including directing a drop-in weekly child care program, teaching community-based training workshops to child care providers and parents, teaching child development and creative activities to undergraduate students, and co-leading the Georgia Better Brains for Babies initiative. She is co-leader of a national Extension team developing the Better Kid Care America web-based resource for child care providers. She is interested in using social bookmarking sites such as Diigo as a tool to identify and share early childhood resources, and has integrated technology use into her creative activities courses.

Her email address is dbales@uga.edu.

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Ilene R. Berson

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

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Bonnie Blagojevic

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 (CCIDS), a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service, and is offering tech integration support for "Early Literacy for Every Child" classrooms, an Early Reading FIrst Project in Maine. She has contributed to the Tech Integration & Early
Childhood Education web page content and the Growing ideas Tip sheets. and is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Class of 2007.

Bonnie was involved with the development of the NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum web site "Technology & Young Children", is a member of the Webmaster team, and contributes to the Diigo group ECETECH and the ECETECH Wiki projects.

Her email address is: Bonnie.Blagojevic@umit.maine.edu

Warren Buckleitner

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

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Douglas H. Clements

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.

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Chip Donohue

Chip Donohue, PhD, is the Director of Distance Learning at Erikson Institute. At Erikson he is developing an online Master's degree for experienced early childhood teachers as well as online certificate and professional development programs. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the innovative use of technology and distance-learning methods to increase access, enhance learning, and improve teaching practices. He is a Fellow of the Fred Rogers Center for early learning and children's media. With Selena Fox of New Zealand Tertiary College, he has co-hosted eTeaching events at the World Forum in New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, and Northern Ireland, the Working Forum for Teacher Educators in New Zealand, and has developed ecelearn, a learning management system for the early childhood profession.
His email address is: CDonohue@erikson.edu

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Sue Griebling

Susan Griebling, EdD, is an Academic Director for the Early Childhood Online Education program 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. She is a facilitator of the University of Cincinnati's study group of the Reggio Inspired Approach to ECE. She has an added interest in the arts in early childhood and the use of technology in the early childhood classroom.
Her email address is: grieblsj@ucmail.uc.edu

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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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Gail Lovely

Gail Lovely is a former classroom teacher of students 4 to 13 years old. Gail believes that teaching is her calling and a deep part of who she is. She earned her Master’s Degree in Educational Computing from Pepperdine University and was an Adjunct Professor there for many years, teaching technology integration courses.

Along the way Gail has hosted an online community for teachers on Scholastic Network, founded the K2 Email List for Classroom Connect, and written ongoing columns in Learning and Leading with Technology, Instructor Magazine, Electronic Learning, and Curriculum Administrator Magazine. Gail has provided content and interface development support and advice to several educational publishers and companies, and more recently to the educational versions of several Web 2.0 tools

Gail has facilitated professional development through ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), Harcourt Learning Technologies, Classroom Connect and others. She works with schools, school systems and private companies to design and deliver professional development sessions. Gail focuses on the implementation of technologies, teaching strategies and the application of powerful learning models. Gail was honored to be named the Trainer of the Year in 2006 for Texas AEYC.

Gail is known for her practical approach to education, her appreciation and admiration for teaching and learning and her skill at making the complex understandable and the difficult manageable.

More information can be found on Gail’s online Curriculum Vitae or she can be reached at Gail@GailLovely.com.

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Linda Robinson

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/

Dina Rosen is an Assistant Professor at Kean University. A graduate from New York University (Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, Administration and Technology) and Wagner College (M.A in Special Education), she has made important contributions to the fields of teacher education, education and technology education. Applying her instructional experience at the middle school, elementary, and early childhood levels, she has directed and evaluated sponsored research projects. Dr. Rosen holds many important leadership positions that have allowed her to steward the Early Childhood field toward inclusion of technology. She has publishing many peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conducted more than 80 presentations at professional
conferences. Dr. Rosen has provided keynote addresses in the United States as well as abroad for the Organization of American States (OAS). Her work has been published in important journals such as Action in Teacher Education, Young Child, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Early Education and Development, and Computers in the Schools. Her research on case-based multimedia instruction earned the honor of NAECTE Dissertation of the Year Award.

Dina can be reached at drosen@kean.edu.

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Emily Jackson Sanborn

Emily Jackson Sanborn has been a classroom teacher for grades 4-6, and a university reference librarian at Duke University Libraries.† With a Masters in Teaching and Learning from the University of Southern Maine's ETEP program, and a Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, technology in teaching situations has always been a cornerstone of her research and work. Emily's research has included website accessibility, website usability and design for college-aged students, power searching for college students, and using technology in classroom teaching settings. She co-authored an award-winning article in a peer-reviewed journal on website accessibility, and has presented at numerous regional and national conferences.Now at home with her two young children, she has been exploring the use of technology in preschools and home situations.

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Jocelynn Smrekar

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 twelfth 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 twelve 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.

X. Christine Wang

X. Christine Wang is an Associate Professor 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. She has been investigating 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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