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2005 Participants (H-P)
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James Harold
Director, Information Systems and Technology
Space Science InstituteDr. Harold is the Director of Information Systems and Technology for the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. In a previous life he was a computational space plasma physicist: from there he segued into education technology. His background includes web development, museum exhibit design, and facilitating scientist involvement in education. Current projects include the MarsQuest Online and Space Weather Center web sites, and the Alien Earths traveling exhibit. He has a particular interest in taking lessons from the informal education world (particularly science centers) and applying that knowledge to the online environment.
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Sherry Hsi
Director of Research, Center for Learning and Teaching
Dr. Sherry Hsi is the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Center for Learning and Teaching at the Exploratorium. Her interests lie at the intersection of learning, design, and technology. Her research focuses on understanding how to design social contexts for science learning, facilitation, and deeper reflection mediated by new media, online environments, and networked technologies. At the Exploratorium, she is studying online audiences, designing a digital library of informal learning resources, and studying how mobile web content, handhelds, and wireless technologies can be instructionally-designed to scaffold the process of explanation and nomadic inquiry. Before joining the Exploratorium, Sherry helped other organizations developing effective eLearning experiences and online communities. Sherry is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley's SESAME program and continues to reside in Berkeley.
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Sonja Hyde-Moyer
Manager of Web & New Media
Museum of ScienceSonja Hyde-Moyer is the Director of Advanced Technologies at the Museum of Science in Boston. Her responsibilities include overseeing all web operations, including the core Museum website, educational and exhibit related sub-sites, e-commerce and intranet sites. Her work also involves providing support and leadership on advanced technology projects at the Museum, such as piloting the use of PDAs in the exhibit halls.
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Guillaume Iacino
Quicktime Developer
Macaulay Library - Cornell Lab of OrnithologyGuillaume Iacino is a world renowned interactive QuickTime developer. He has worked, consulted and provided training for many Fortune 500 companies including Apple, L-3 Communications, Walmart, Disney, WGHB, and BMW. He is currently working with the Cornell - Lab of Ornithology assisting them with an online deployment of the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video.
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Brad Johnson
Co-founder and Creative Director
Second StoryBrad Johnson is the co-founder and Creative Director of Second Story, a studio dedicated to inspiring, educating and entertaining audiences through innovative, interactive storytelling. The studio has collaborated with many outstanding museums, media and cultural institutions, employing teams of artists, writers, illustrators, and programmers to blend stories and technology at such organizations as The National Archives and Records Administration and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. After studying philosophy and pursuing a career in the arts, Brad has focused on exploring new forms of interactive media since 1994, and his work has earned him and his company many of the top interactive design awards.
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Julie Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
Johnson is currently on loan to NSF by the New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences (NJAAS). At NSF she works to fund innovative projects that support the public understanding of science and have an impact on the field of informal science education. She has been with the New Jersey State Aquarium (run by NJAAS) since its opening in 1992 starting in the education departments and moving up to the COO position which she now occupies. Johnson has been project director and principal investigator for a number of grant funded programs of which the PISEC Family Science Learning Study, and Families Exploring Science Together projects are most notable. She serves on the board of the NJ Association of Museums and is a member of several professional organizations including NSTA, AWIS, AAM and ASTC.
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Tricia Jones
Senior Research Associate
University of Michigan / Animal Diversity WebOver the past 15 years, Tricia Jones has been involved in many different aspects of instructional software at the University of Michigan, and was one of the original designers of the Animal Diversity Web. For many years, she consulted with faculty in the conception and design phases, helping them define their pedagogical goals and see how technology could support those. Over time, her focus shifted more to evaluation. She currently works as a research associate for the ADW and the associated BioKIDS site. As a grad student focused on ed tech, she spent many hours discussing what it really meant to be "interactive".
Her Ph.D. dissertation included analysis of an extensive collection of individual user log files for a Macintosh-based introductory chemistry application. Most recently, she has explored what insights might be gained from similar analyses on web server log files.
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Sesh Kannan
Principle and Producer
Flaneur MediaSesh Kannan is principle and producer at Flaneur Media in Washington, DC. His latest production is the ITVS funded interactive documentary BEYOND THE FIRE on the experiences of teen war refugees from seven conflict zones. It has been selected for the 2005 Sundance Online Film Festival. He is currently producing a one hour public radio documentary, Young, European and Muslim, on the integration of European Muslim youth in the European Union.
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Steve Kelling
Director of Information Technologies
Cornell Lab of OrnithologyLinks
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Bryan Kennedy
Internet Developer
Learning Technologies Center, Science Museum of MinnesotaBryan Kennedy is an educator, researcher, and developer in the Learning Technologies Center at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Bryan's main passion is connecting real world spaces and experiences with the unique beauty of the Internet. He is currently trying to build a bridge between the active world of science research and the Science Museum's exhibit spaces through a series of mini exhibits linked up to a fledgling online community called Science Buzz. In several alternate/imaginary existances he is also a fiber artist, a geochemist, and the owner of a record store.
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Ted Koterwas
New Media Director
ExploratoriumTed Koterwas directs multimedia and web development in the Center for Public Exhibition at the Exploratorium. He created exhibits and associated web-based activities for the Seeing and Traits of Life exhibit collections, the Microscope Imaging Station facility, and the Finding Significance research project. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator for the Outdoor Exploratorium, an NSF-funded project developing exhibits in a variety of public places around San Francisco. He has created New Media art installations for over ten years, and has taught digital art and design to adult and college level students.
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Toby Levenson
Sr. Research Associate
WestEdToby Levenson is a Senior Research Associate for WestEd's Science and Mathematics Program. She is currently evaluating educational technology and curricula for grades K-12, developing a Teacher's Guide and technology tools for teachers of struggling middle and high school readers, and conducting research on school reform. She recently co-authored a book and related article that evaluates and reviews Technology Education curricula in light of the Standards for Technological Literacy. Previously at WestEd, Levenson managed the development of several professional development Web sites dedicated to improving student academic performance. She designed the information architecture and interface for the sites.
Prior to joining WestEd, Levenson worked in both the nonprofit and for-profit education sectors as a producer, manager, and educational designer. She designed literacy software and curricula, produced technology related ancillaries to textbooks, created math software and curricula, and developed educational technology and edutainment products for The Learning Company, Scholastic Inc., Harcourt, D.C. Heath Publishers, Education Development Center, and CAST, among others. 
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Jennifer Logan, Ph.D.
Manager of Strategic Communications
The Brain Institute at the University of UtahFrom 2000-2004, Logan co-directed the Genetic Science Learning Center, an outreach education program at the University of Utah. In this role, she led the development of the Learning Center's genetics education website, which was honored by Scientific American magazine in 2003 and 2004 as one of the top 50 science sites on the Internet. Logan and the Learning Center conducted two previous national conferences for science education website developers in 1999 and 2000. A molecular biologist and journalist by training, Logan now directs online and offline communications for the newly established Brain Institute at the University of Utah.
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Brent Lowrie
Games and Animation Director
Rare Method> With over fifteen years in the graphic arts and animation industries, including a stint at Walt Disney Animation Canada, Brent is Rare Method's creative force driving development of award-winning projects like Wonderville.ca. As Games and Animation Group leader, he fills many roles; from art direction, copywriting, character design and animation to project management and business development. Brent and his team at Rare Method have been successfully applying lessons learned in the entertainment and marketing industries to interactive education for over four years.
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Cheryl McCallum
Director of Education
The Children's Museum of HoustonCheryl McCallum holds a Texas teaching certification in secondary education. After receiving a masters degree in education, she taught elementary students through outdoor education programs for five years before accepting a position with The Children's Museum of Houston in 1993. She is currently Director of Education for the Museum and in May 2005 completes her coursework in pursuit of a doctorate in Instructional Technology.
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Cathy McEver
Bureau of Common Sense
Catherine McEver is an independent consultant with a background in program design, staff training, group problem solving, strategic planning, and creative documentation. McEver's expertise in innovative approaches to education has encompassed curriculum design, teacher training, and program development, including design of a series of award-winning national demonstration projects for inner city youth for the Department of Labor, the U.S. Office of Education, and the National Alliance of Business. Over the past decade Catherine McEver has applied her writing, graphic, and design skills to creative documentation for museums, science centers, and educational nonprofits.
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Kathy McLean
Consultant
ExploratoriumKathleen McLean is principal of Independent Exhibitions, a museum consulting firm specializing in museum design, programming, and strategic planning. From January 1994 through September 2004 she was the Director of the Center for Public Exhibition and Public Programs at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. For 30 years, she has designed and developed a wide range of exhibitions for public audiences in museums of history, art, and science, as well as interdisciplinary and childrens' museums.
McLean is co-editor of the NSF-funded book, Are We There Yet? Conversations about Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development, the author of Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions, the exhibition review editor of Curator: The Museum Journal, and has widely published and spoken on museum design, informal learning, and exhibitions. She has served on panels and committees of the American Association of Museums, the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Science Foundation, among others.
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Jason A. Mobley, PhD
Acting Director of Education
Cornell Lab of OrnithologyJason is currently serving as the Acting Director of Education at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where he helps supervise Project Leaders of Urban Bird Studies and Classroom BirdWatch. Jason also directs the instruction and development of the Lab's enormously popular Home Study Course in Bird Biology and helps coordinate and develop the annual Spring Field Ornithology course. Jason came to the Lab of Ornithology in September 2002 after completing his PhD in the Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California (Berkeley) on the phylogenetic relationships and evolution of a group of Tyrant Flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae) generally referred to as the Kingbirds (Tyrannus) and their Allies. Jason has years of experience working in both laboratory and natural history museum environments and has conducted fieldwork on birds in numerous localities throughout North, Central, and South America. One of Jason's current initiatives in the Education Program at the Lab is to combine his background in the practice of formal scientific inquiry and classroom based education with his newer interests in interactive learning techniques to transform the Home Study Course in Bird Biology into a model web-based distance learning experience that more effectively engages participants.
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Will Morris
Program Manager
Cornell UniversityWill Morris is Program Manager for Cornell University's central web site. With a background in studio art, he has been managing, designing, and building web sites and web-based applications since 1996. He is co-creator and former senior designer for explore.cornell.edu, an award-winning interactive web magazine that presents Cornell University research, outreach, and collections, to the general public.
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Erica Olsen
Interface Designer
Macaulay Library - Cornell Lab of OrnithologyErica Olsen and her fellow geeks are currently working to make the world's largest collection of animal sounds available online. Erica came to Cornell from the University of Michigan's School of Information, where she earned her Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction. Before that, she worked for the Michigan State University Library's Special Collections department, where she cataloged comic books and helped organize a massive digitization project. Erica has a strong interest in making museum and library services attractive and accessible to everyone. She believes information should be free, and that public good organizations shouldn't get the short end of the design stick just because they are broke. Her website, Librarian Avengers, has been defending the librarian community from the ravages of acronyms, buzzwords, and unpleasant websites since 1997.
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Amy Pertschuk
Director of Operations
EnatureAmy pertschuk is the co-founder and Director of Operations for eNature.com, an educational outreach program of the National Wildlife Federation and the web's premier nature discovery resource. Pertschuk has pioneered eNature's partnership program, reaching out to like-minded agencies and organizations to develop programs that support a broad range of education efforts. These programs leverage off of eNature's searchable database of 7000+ species with online tools and resources including customized wildlife guides and personal field guides for young naturalists. Prior to eNature, Pertschuk co-founded Communication Wave. As C-Wave's president and creative director, she attracted major museum clients, aquariums, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations by offering long-term online development strategies.
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Kevin Pompei
Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah
Since 1997, Kevin has worked exclusively in managing web application development projects. Kevin joined the Genetic Science Learning Center in 2001 as the Senior Web Architect and engineered a transition of the GSLC website to a state-of-the-art database-driven standards-compliant design. In 2004, he became the Center's Associate Director, and is now having fun leading the Centers website and curriculum development in exciting new directions. He is a graduate of San Jose State University and a native Californian who transplanted to Utah in 1994.
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