John Bailey - Friday Luncheon

John Bailey is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology in the US Education Department, responsible for implementing educational technology policy at the national level. Prior to this appointment, Bailey was director of educational technology at the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In that position, he developed an online planning tool called eTech Planner that assisted all the school districts in the state in developing long-range technology plans. Bailey also spearheaded Pennsylvania's Link to Learn initiative, which increased funding for educational technology in Pennsylvania schools.

Dr. Stan Silverman - Thursday Opening Session

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Dr. Stan Silverman is the Director of the Technology-Based Learning Systems Department of the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). He is also director of a not-for-profit consortium named the Educational Enterprise Zone® (EEZ® ), a partnership of NYIT with Verizon and the Hitachi Foundation (www.nyiteez.org). The consortium members are content providers who create programming for K-12 classrooms and learning environments that receive the programming, as well as corporate facilitators who assist with hardware and software needs for the various programs. Content providers come from a variety of educational, public and private sector arenas including cultural institutions, museums, research centers, hospitals and small businesses, which offer member schools a wide range of curricular programming.

Dr. Ken Klingenstein - Friday Opening Session

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Dr. Ken Klingenstein serves on the Senior Staff of Internet 2 and is Project Director for the Internet 2 Middleware Initiative. In that role, he is responsible for disseminating middleware developments, fostering interoperability through standards and workshops, capturing best practices, working with corporations and vendors to create products for use in higher education, and being a liaison to national and international organizations interested in the development of middleware. On loan to Internet 2 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, he continues to provide strategic leadership for information technology for the campus where he was Director of Information Technology for 14 years. Dr. Klingenstein has served as chair of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, Chair of Westnet and Colorado Supernet, and in other roles in national and regional networking.

Scott R. Sharer - Thursday Luncheon

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Mr. Scott Sharer is the Vice President for Educational Development at Logical Transitions Inc., Tybee Island, Georgia (www.logicaltransitions.com). In addition to a range of training and staff development services in videoconferencing for organizations, LTI is well known for their commitment to schools via the Virtual Videoconference Fieldtrip Program, offered to K-6 public schools via dialup videoconference connection. Through his extensive use of personally developed methodologies when training for LTI, Scott's special insights into the deployment and use of videoconferencing technologies for distance learning applications have become widely recognized by many in professional training and education.

Dr. Michael G. Moore - Friday, Research Session

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Dr. Michael G. Moore is the editor of the American Journal of Distance Education, and a member of the faculty of the College of Education of The Pennsylvania State University. He founded the American Center for the Study of Distance Education at Penn State in 1986, and was the Director of the Center from its inception until 2002, recently retiring from that post. The Center conducts research, teaching and conferences, and is recognized as a clearinghouse for information and research on developments in distance education. He has also been the editor of the Journal for the same period of time, and continues in that capacity. Dr. Moore is well known internationally for his work as an academic and consultant in the field of distance education.