2009 TRLD Featured Presenters
Keynote and Featured Presenter
David Warlick, Director & Principal Consultant, The Landmark Project, Raleigh, NC
David Warlick, a 30 year educator, has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has been the director of The Landmark Project, a web development, consulting, and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. A prolific programmer, his attribution tool, Citation Machine receives more than a half million page views a day, and his classroom blogging site serves over 160,000 users. David is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, numerous journal articles, and has spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America.
Featured Presenters
Sheryl Abshire, Administrative Coordinator of Technology, Calcasieu Parish Public Schools, Lake Charles, LA
Sheryl has worked as a school principal, K-5 teacher, library/media specialist, and university professor. She has been involved in diverse staff development programs throughout the nation and Great Britain involving restructuring and funding schools through the infusion of technology and curriculum enhancements. As the first teacher inducted into the National Teachers’ Hall of Fame and as the Board Chair for CoSN, Sheryl has served as a catalyst to initiate the integration of technology throughout the nation and internationally. She serves on numerous national, state and district committees focusing on the role of technology and curriculum in changing educational practice.
Lynne Anderson-Inman Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Education/Center for Electronic Studying. University of Oregon, College of Education, Eugene, OR
Dr. Lynne Anderson-Inman has a Ph.D. in Special Education, with an emphasis on content-area reading, writing and studying. She is Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE) in the College of Education at the University of Oregon and also Director of the National Center for Supported eText (NCSeT), a consortium of research sites at major institutions across the country (http://ncset.uoregon.edu). She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on the use of technology to improve reading, writing and studying, with special emphasis on strategies for using technology to enhance the academic success of struggling learners. Dr. Anderson-Inman has pioneered the concept of "computer-supported studying," conducting research and developing materials on strategies designed to promote effective learning through the use of technology. She has directed numerous federally funded projects investigating (1) computer-based study strategies for diverse learners, (2) digital books with "supported text," (3) collaborative notetaking for ELL adolescents, and (4) online learning environments for sustained study and technology-supported historical inquiry. Dr. Anderson-Inman is a widely published author on effective uses of technology and a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.
Floyd Braid MFA, Chief Learning Officer, i3 Training Services Inc., Cartersville, GA
Floyd Braid has 12 successful years of experience as a middle school and college level educator. He has taught grades 5-8 and various technology integration courses for educators and pre-service teachers. Floyd currently serves as the Chief Learning Officer for i3 Training Services www.i3trainingservices.com a professional development company that focuses on the evolution of technology tools as they support the curriculum in the classroom.
John Fleischman M.A. Education Technology, Assistant Superintendent of Technology Services, Sacramento, CA
John Fleischman is a nationally recognized authority on the use of instructional technology and adult learning. He’s currently employed as Assistant Superintendent of Technology Services at the Sacramento County Office of Education.
Kelly Fonner, MS
Kelly Fonner is a self-employed consultant and trainer in the areas of assistive and educational technology. She has been working with individuals with disabilities since the mid 1970s and with assistive technology since 1983. Kelly speaks internationally on a wide range of AT and related-topics and has consulted with various national companies and universities.
Mike Hall, DMH Consulting LLC
Dr. Mike Hall is one of America’s most sought-after speakers on the subjects of technology education integration and Freshman Transition initiatives. The former Deputy Superintendent of Information Technology for the Georgia Department of Education, Dr. Hall has been a technology visionary featured speaker twice at the National Intel Visionary Conference and has presented more than 250 sessions at local, state, and national technology conferences across the country. His efforts have given him the opportunity to work with schools in numerous states on the transformation of technology across the curriculum as well as Ninth Grade Academy/Freshman Transition initiatives. Dr. Hall was recognized in 2004 as one of the top 10 High School principals in the US and in 2005 as one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers for innovative technology projects in the US by Government Technology Magazine. While serving as a high school principal, Dr. Hall’s school, Houston County High School, was recognized as the most advanced school in the nation for technology integration across the curriculum. The school was also named an Intel Model School (one of only three in the nation). Dr. Hall is the co-author of High School 101, an innovative project-based strategy designed to prepare students to succeed in the classroom as well as the workplace. This progressive ‘real world’ approach to freshman transition has been recognized as a model initiative that teaches students critical 21st Century skills. Still a practicing educator, Dr. Hall currently serves as the Executive Director of Secondary Operations in the Glynn County School District
Kirsten Haugen M.A., Consultant for Educational and Assistive Technology
Kirsten Haugen is an experienced educator, author and trainer on educational and assistive technology, a web designer, and the parent of a child with emotional and learning difficulties. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. She has presented at TRLD since 1995. Learn more at www.kirstenhaugen.org
Sara Kajder Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English Ed, Virginia Tech
Sara B. Kajder is an assistant professor of English Education at Virginia Tech. A former middle and high school English teacher, she received the first National Technology Leadership Fellowship in English/Language Arts. A nationally-known presenter and consultant, she is the author of the Tech Savvy English Classroom (Stenhouse, 2003), and Bringing the Outside In (Stenhouse, 2006).
Scott Marfilius, Education/Assistive Technology Consultant
Scott has been working with individuals with disabilities for the past 23 years. The past 17 years has involved implementing assistive technology at various levels. First within an integrated classroom as a classroom teacher, then implementing a district wide system change within a Public School System by assisting their District Wide Team. He continues to assist teams and individuals in assessing students assistive technology needs. His teaching certifications are in Early Childhood Handicap, Cognitive Disabilities, Emotional Disability, and Learning Disability. He also consults with individuals and businesses to determine adaptations that are needed in work place settings. Scott's focus areas in assistive technology include computer access, and technologies that assist those with cognitive and learning disabilities.
Skip Stahl, Project Director, NIMAS Development Center, Co-Director, AIM Consortium, Director, Technical Assistance, CAST, Wakefield, MA
A nationally recognized expert in accessible digital materials and Universal Design for Learning, Mr. Stahl has extensive experience in providing professional development and assistance to educators in K–12 and postsecondary settings. As project director for the NIMAS Development Center, and Co-Director of the AIM (Accessible Instructional Materials) Consortium, he leads a national initiative implementing the transformation of K–12 textbooks into specialized accessible formats for students with print disabilities. He has consulted with software and curriculum publishers in accessible product design and is a nationally recognized conference presenter. Mr. Stahl is the author of over thirty articles published in peer-reviewed, popular, and trade publications. He received a B.A. in English Literature from Bard College and an M.S. from Bank Street College of Education.
Joy Smiley Zabala, Consultant and Professional Developer
Joy Smiley Zabala, Ed. D., ATP, is the project manager of the AIM Consortium, a fifteen-state project headed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and funded by a grant from the Office of Special Education Programs of the U. S. Department of Education. The goal of the AIM Consortium is to improve the quality, availability, and timely delivery of accessible instructional materials to K-12 students with print disabilities. Dr. Zabala is the developer of the SETT Framework (http://www.joyzabala.com/), a founding member of the QIAT Community and facilitator of the QIAT List (http://www.qiat.org), a past-president and current newsletter editor of the Technology and Media Division (TAM) of the Council for Exceptional Children (http://www.tamcec.org/), and a strong supporter of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and AT as complementary supports for student achievement.