Nationally known keynote and featured speakers will appear each day of the Institute, providing a global perspective to many key issues for educators.
John Kuglin
Peter Reynolds
Leslie Fisher
Doug Adams
John
Kuglin
Vice President of Education and Training Programs,
Comchoice Inc.
Keynote Monday
After nearly 21 years as a teacher and administrator in Montana, John was recruited to join Telecommunications Inc. (TCI) as the founding Director of the Sparkman Center for Educational Technology in Denver, Colorado. Later, John served as Senior Director of Technology for McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) and also as the University of Montana’s Associate Dean of Continuing Education where he initiated the first complete online course environment and served as Executive Director for a multi-million dollar NASA research grant. After retiring from the University in 2001, he accepted the position of Vice President of Education and Training Programs for Comchoice Inc., an LA-based DVD authoring company.
Concurrently, John serves as an educational consultant and keynote speaker. He has delivered keynote addresses at national and international conferences, and has addressed conferences in over 40 states. He brings 30 combined years of experience in education, telecommunications, television production, and Internet technology to these efforts.
Among John’s many awards and honors, he was named one of the Top 25 Education Technology Advocates in the United States by District Administrator magazine. He was featured on CNN for his innovative uses of technology in his classroom. USA Today selected him, as one of ten teachers nationwide, as a USA Today Power Teacher.
Peter
Reynolds
Author and FableVision Founder
Keynote Tuesday
For two decades, Peter Reynolds has made his mark in
media and technology-delivered learning for children.
Peter, along with his identical twin brother Paul Reynolds, founded the
award-winning children’s media company, FableVision, in 1996. FableVision’s
mission is to use media, storytelling and technology to reach, support
and inspire ALL learners. This has led to partnerships and co-development
relationships with a wide range of museums, publishers, and broadcasters.
Peter H. Reynolds’ award-winning career includes his most recent book, Ish, released in September 2004 by Candlewick Press. Ish is the sequel to Peter’s book, The Dot (2003), which has won a number of prestigious awards, such as the Oppenheim Platinum Toy Award, Borders Books’ Original Voices 2004 Award, and the Christopher Medal. Reynolds’ other work includes his cornerstone work The North Star, the best-selling Judy Moody series written by Megan McDonald, Eleanor Estes’ The Alley and The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode, Judy Blume’s Fudge series, and Ellen Potter’s Olivia Kidney.
Peter travels throughout the country and world to help create wonderful classrooms using his “North Star Approach,” and to inspire educators, parents, business leaders and children to make their mark. As one teacher shares, “I heard you at our NETA conference in Omaha, Nebraska and you were inspirational! I will be a better teacher because of you.”
Leslie
Fisher
Consultant, Fisher Technologies, Inc.
Featured Speaker
Leslie Fisher’s interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. After graduating from USC with a Business and Marketing degree in 1989, she went to an Apple Computer Inc. subsidiary where she was in charge of the education marketing and training program. She later joined Apple Computer Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer in K-12 education, providing technology solutions to school districts across Southern California.
When the Internet took off in 1994 and Leslie was one of the first Apple employees assigned to study Internet growth and implementation. Due to her knowledge of web design, server implementation and Internet Resources, she became the Internet resource in the Educational Western Region. In 1997, Leslie was road kill on Apple’s road to recovery as part of their massive lay off. Leslie planned to spend most of her huge severance package golfing and waiting a few months to look for a job, but the day after her layoff, her phone began to ring with Apple customers requesting consulting. Before she could say “fore,” Fisher Technologies Inc. was created to help educators with their technology implementation and decisions.
Fisher Technologies Inc. is now a nationwide corporation providing web design, consulting, training and presentation services to school districts and companies.
Doug
Adams
High Plains Regional Technology in Education
Consortium (HPR*TEC)
Featured Speaker
Showing even more new Internet tools and strategies with each visit, Doug Adams is an Educational Technology Specialist at the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium (HPR*TEC). He has six years of experience in the higher education classroom, teaching classes in human learning and educational technology. His work at HPR*TEC involves helping educators across the country integrate technology into their classrooms. Doug is the editor of Edlines, a biweekly, online newsletter highlighting educational technology news.