Contributors to March AE-Extra
[Issue 3/2010]
Susan Jones, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), College of Education. She was Co-Principal Investigator of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant. She has worked with a major multimedia software development company. Her primary research interest is effective technology integration in the teaching and learning process. Currently, Dr. Jones is writing her first technology text.
Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Education Centre, Quesnel, BC. He is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His writing has been published in 19 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow and England's D. M. Thomas. He also studied under USA's novelist Paul Bagdon. Since 1978, he has edited the literary journal CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters, and serves as an elder in a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Quesnel.
Nicholas D. Hartlep, M.S.Ed., is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he is pursuing a degree in Urban Education and Social Foundations of Education. His research focuses on urban educational reform as it relates to race, equity, and the improvement of education, especially at the collegiate level. Hartlep is a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools, the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin. Before entering the doctoral program, he held leadership positions at the national level. He led seven states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin) while he served as a Regional Vice President in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Gloria Jean Rodman, Ph.D., completed her doctoral degree in Educational Administration in 2000 after thirty-one years as a secondary English teacher, school counselor, associate school psychologist, and campus administrator in two school districts. Since that time, Rodman has served as professor and coordinator of various areas of the teacher preparation program at Texas A&M University – Kingsville- System Center in San Antonio, Texas. This upper level campus is on track to develop into Texas A&M University – San Antonio by the close of 2010. While Rodman has taught a variety courses in the teacher certification programs, she currently is teaching undergraduate educational psychology and graduate counseling courses. She also supervises the school based programs for the San Antonio program. Her research interests include P-16 and community involvement programs, reflection utilization in teacher preparation, and professional development programs for teachers.
Ernest Williamson, III, is a Ph.D. candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher Education. Williamson is an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University and an English Professor at Essex County College. He holds a BA and a MA in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. He has published poetry and visual art in over 180 online and print journals and has been nominated twice for the Best of the Net Anthology. Williamson is also a self-taught pianist and painter.
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