Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Contributors
The wonderful team who works to bring you Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears includes Regular Contributors, Guest Contributors, and a Technology and Graphics team.
| Kimberly Lightle, Principal Investigator | |
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Dr. Kimberly Lightle is the Director of Digital Libraries in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. She has supported the professional growth of K-12 science and math teachers over the last 15 years by building collections and services that meet the needs of those teachers. Dr. Lightle is the Principal Investigator on the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears project. |
| Jessica Fries-Gaither, Project Director | |
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Jessica Fries-Gaither is an Elementary Resource Specialist in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. Jessica has taught at the elementary level (grades 4-6) and middle school (grades 5-8 math and science) in Memphis, TN and Anchorage, AK. Her work with Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears involves creating and managing content for the magazine and blog. |
| Carol Landis, Education Outreach Specialist | |
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Carol is a retired science teacher who serves as the Education Outreach Specialist for the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University. She went to Antarctica for a month in December, 2003. Carol is a co-Principal Investigator for the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears project. |
| Robert Payo, Education and Outreach Specialist | |
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Robert Payo is an Education and Outreach Specialist with the National Science Digital Libraries. Robert specializes in informal science education through professional development programs for NSDL and formerly through outreach education programs for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Stephen Whitt, Director of Experience Programs | |
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Stephen Whitt is the Director of Experience Programs Teaching and Learning at the Columbus Museum of Science and Industry. Stephen has been with COSI since 1993, performing shows and demonstrations, writing exhibit signs and show scripts, and co-directing COSI's floor faculty. He has written over 40 articles for children's science magazines. His first book, The Turtle and the Universe, was published in summer 2008. |
| Carol Minton Morris, Communications Director and Research Associate | |
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Besides being a popular culture afficionado, Carol Minton Morris is a research associate in the digital libraries research group in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University and the communications director for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and Fedora Commons. |
| Carolyn Hamilton, Editor | |
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Carolyn Hamilton is the editor for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. She has edited print and online magazines for different education audiences, including school board members, teachers, administrators, and K-12 media specialists. |
| Kate Hastings, Youth Librarian | |
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Kate Hastings (MLS Indiana University, 1998) is a youth librarian at the Upper Arlington Public Library near Columbus, Ohio. She writes the monthly Virtual Bookshelf column for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. |
| Lois McLean, McLean Media | |
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Lois is co-owner of McLean Media (Grass Valley, California), creators of the Content Clips web site. She has been a producer, instructional designer, and writer for numerous educational publishers, museums, and NSF-funded projects. She began her career in education as an elementary classroom teacher and reading specialist. |
| Rick Tessman, McLean Media | |
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Rick is co-owner of McLean Media in Grass Valley, California, where he is a producer, graphic artist, and Flash programmer. He began his career in multimedia as a producer/director for public television. He helped develop the Content Clips web site and creates Flash-based e-books and interactives for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. |
| Stephanie Chasteen | |
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Stephanie is an education/outreach consultant and also researches student learning at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has a PhD in physics, is a podcaster, writer and teacher, and worked at the Exploratorium Museum of Science in science education and outreach. Visit her webhome and blog at http://www.sciencegeekgirl.com. |
| Mille Porsid | |
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Mille Porsild owns NOMADS, a leader in the development and implementation of adventure learning programs for the K-12 classrooms. Committed to Arctic education she is program director of the GoNorth! adventure learning series at the University of Minnesota and has traveled in the circumpolar Arctic every year on extensive 2-6 month dogsled expeditions since 1992. | Rita Oates |
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Dr. Rita Oates taught high school in Kansas. After more than seven years as director of ed tech in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, she was chair of the Computer Education and Technology graduate program at Barry University. Now VP of Education Markets at ePals, Rita presents workshops and webinars on using ePals for 21st century learning, data collection and analysis, and literacy practice. |
| Larry Ferlazzo | |
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Larry teaches English and social studies to English-language learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. His ELL book,Organizing To Learn: The Art Of Teaching English Language Learners, will be published by Linworth Publishing next year. His first book from Linworth, Building Parent Engagement in Schools, will be available September 30. He also has a popular resource-sharing blog. |
| Eleanor Lynette Rayle, Technology Lead | |
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Lynette has worked with software development and systems design for 18 years. She is currently part of the research team for the National Science Digital Library at Cornell University exploring interoperability of collaborative tools in the production of digital resources. |
| Angela Jones, Graphic Designer | |
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Angie is a graphic designer living in Sarasota, Florida. She specializes in visual design for web using XHTML and CSS technology standards and also designs for print such as brochures, trade show graphics, business cards and stationery. She has been designing and implementing attractive websites since 1997. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in 2003. |
Copyright October 2009 - The Ohio State University. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0733024. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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