Alumni & Friends - IT Program

Alumni & Friends

Learn more about our alumni (and the field of Instructional Technology) from these interview excerpts. Click on the audio players below.

	Paula Cochran, '86 Paula, a professor at Truman State U. in Missouri, was the recipient of a technology fellowship established by the Curry School in 1982 and was subsequently recognized as a Curry School Outstanding Doctoral Student for her work in IT. +/- more Her book on clinical computing in communication disorders (2006) summarizes her two decades of work and is receiving recognition as the standard work on this topic in her discipline.
	Judi Harris, '90 Judi is currently the Robert D. & Patricia Lee Pavey Family Chair in Educational Technology at William & Mary. While at UVA, Judi served as field coordinator of TeacherLink, a Curry School initiative that established the nation’s first statewide K-12 Internet system. +/- more She was also recognized as the Curry School’s Outstanding Doctoral Student in 1990. Judi directs the Electronic Emissary, a web-based telementoring service and resource center for K-12 teachers. Founded by Judi in 1993, it is the longest-established initiative of its kind on the Internet. Her book, Virtual Architecture: Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing, established a framework of activity structures for designing and implementing curriculum-based telecollaborative and teleresearch learning activities in schools.
	Bernard Robin, '93 Bernard is a faculty member in the IT program at the U. of Houston. He entered the IT program in 1989, graduating in 1993. +/- more Prior to that he was a medical photographer, and continues to pursue his interest in digital media. He currently serves as chair of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) Digital Storytelling committee, exploring ways in which Digital Storytelling and digital media can be employed in education.
	Adam Friedman, '04 Adam is currently a faculty member at Wake Forest U. Adam Friedman was a graduate fellow in the Curry Center for Technology & Teacher Education. +/- more He received a PhD in IT with a specialization in Social Studies Education in 2004. And, he received the National Technology Leadership Initiative (NTLI) award for outstanding work in this area in 2005. His reflections on his experience in the doctoral program and subsequent work are excerpted from a conversation with Glen Bull.
	Ann Thompson Ann is a professor of Curriculum & Instruction at Iowa State U. She is also the Founding Director of the Center for Technology in Learning & Teaching in the College of Education at Iowa State University and currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Center. +/- more Dr. Thompson served as President of the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) and is a recipient of the SITE Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the editor of the International Society for Technology in Education journal, the Journal of Computing in Teacher Education (JCTE)
	Anita McAnear Anita McAnear is acquisitions editor for Learning & Leading with Technology (formerly The Computing Teacher) and national program chair for the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). +/- more In this excerpt from a conversation with Glen Bull, Anita discusses the establishment of the International Society for Technology in Education and the evolution of the NECC conference.

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