Chicago, IL Pre-Proposal Briefing Attendees
Christopher Andersen
Interim Executive Director
Center for Educational Technologies
andersen@cet.edu
www.cet.edu
The Center for Educational Technologies (CET) provides multimedia product development, research and evaluation, teacher professional development, and community outreach through funding from the US Department of Education, NASA, NSF, and other government and industry sources. Our recent interactive DVD (Foundations of Freedom) explores the history of the US Constitution and is being provided to every high school in the US.
Mike Berglund
American History Teacher
Wausau West High School
mberglund@wausau.k12.wi.us
Carol Bolton
Producer
Safron Salon Theater, Inc.
boltonelc@aol.com
John Chalkley
Vice President
TECHPLUS Commercial
jchalkley@winfreeacademy.com
Melody Chalkley
CEO/Superintendent
Winfree Academy
mchalkley@winfreeacademy.com
Steve Cochilla
Chief Information Officer
21st Communications Corp.
cochilla@21stcom.com
21st Communications produces broadcast and web-based documentary and training products on subjects such as social responsibility, urban education and professional development. It has developed an interactive mixed media content delivery system, The Complete Story, that can be utilized for business communications and educational purposes.
James A. Connolly
Associate Professor of History/Director, Center for Middletown Studies
Ball State University; WIPB-TV
jconnoll@bsu.edu
www.bsu.edu/middletown
Ball State offers a number of constituencies that could support an AHCI project, including not only its history faculty but the Center for Middletown Studies, its award-winning Center for Media Design, and a nationally ranked teacher's college.
Deborah Crable
Director of Grants & Outreach
WYCC TV-20 Chicago
dcrable@ccc.edu
www.wycc.org
WYCC is the largest minority controlled television station within the PBS network. It is licensed to the City Colleges of Chicago and it's mission is to produce and broadcast programs that combine a global vision with a local focus while bridging racial, ethnic, class and gender divisions.
Thomas Culbertson
Interim Executive Director
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
tculbertson@rbhayes.org
www.rbhayes.org
The first presidential library and museum in the country opened in 1916, also on the 25 acre site is the 31-room home of Rutherford Hayes. Our library, archives, and museum go beyond president Hayes covering the era from the Civil War to 1900.
James A. DeVinney
President
Green Light Productions, Inc.
greenlightprod@aol.com
For the past ten years, Green Light Productions, Inc. has been developing scripts and programs for national distribution on PBS, the Discovery Channel, The History Channel, A&E, other production companies, museums and the National Park Service. Its president, James A. DeVinney, is an award-winning filmmaker with four Emmys (including three for documentary writing), an Academy Award nomination, four Peabodys and numerous other journalism awards.
Terry Dugas
Manager
NET Learning Services
tdugas@unlnotes.unl.edu
David Feingold
Assistant GM, Content
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
dfeingold@netNebraska.org
netNebraska.org
NET Radio - Nebraska's NPR Station; NET Television - Nebraska's PBS Station; NET Interactive Media
Karen French
Instructional Technology Integration Specialist
Learning Technology Center, University of Texas, Austin
kdfrench@mail.utexas.edu
www.utexas.edu/education/ltc
The Learning Technology Center in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin supports the instructional and research activities of the College's students, faculty, and staff by providing computer, multimedia production, and telecommunications facilities, equipment, and services. The Learning Technology Center also participates in research projects and collaborative activities which advance the use of technology to meet the educational needs of students and teachers throughout the state and nation, and around the world.
Ethan Frenchman
Student
University of Chicago
efrench@uchicago.edu
Michael S. Gaff
Director of Grants & Development
Center for Interactive Learning & Collaboration (CILC)
mgaff@cilc.org
www.cilc.org
A not-for-profit dedicated to being your premier provider of video conferencing services and program content. We work with schools, zoos, museums, and science centers to provide virtual fieldtrips to places across the globe.
Patrick Galligan
Department Chair - Social Studies
Wausau West High School
pgalliga@wausau.k12.wi.us
www.wausau.k12.wi.us/west
Wausau West is a public high school serving 1650 students. Our school district has two high schools, two middle schools, and thirteen elementary schools.
Linda Gerofsky
Station Manager
WKYU-PBS
linda.gerofsky@wku.edu
www.wkyupbs.org
Local PBS station, licensed to Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Gary Greenberg
Educational Services Manager
ThinkTV Network
gary_greenberg@wptd.pbs.org
Bennett Grossman
Producer
Product Productions
bg659@aol.com
Full service production company
Robert Gurrola
CEO
Media Bridge Studios
rez404@tcq.net
www.csilabs.com
Creative Sound & Image, Inc., founded in 1982, is a premier minority-owned provider of professional digital media products and services for the corporate, legal, educational, entertainment, military, and government market sectors. CSI features cost-effective End-to-End solutions in digital media, including content creation, analysis, and customized release formatting.
Linda Hanson
Assistant Admin, Education Dept.
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Lhanson@ecb.state.wi.us
Tari Hodges
Interactive & New Media Producer
KCPT Public Television 19
tari_hodges@kcpt.org
www.kcpt.org
PTV Station
Andrea Isenbarger
Instructional Programs Developer
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Aisenbarger@ecb.state.wi.us
Randal Maurice Jelks
Associate Professor of History
Calvin College, History Department
rjelks@calvin.edu
Sharon Karp
Director, Editor, Documentary Film Maker
Media Monster
mediamonster@sbcglobal.net
www.mediamonster.net
Involved in the production of socially relevant and educational documentary films and other forms of multi-media.
David Kleeman
President
American Center for Children and Media
dkleeman@atgonline.org
The American Center for Children and Media is a professional development center, resource center and executive roundtable, guided by children's TV and digital media leaders, and supported by their companies. It seeks out and promotes the best practices in children's media worldwide, through seminars, workshops, consulting and advising services
Darren La Shelle
Director, TV Broadcast Services
WGTE Public Broadcasting
darren_lashelle@wgte.org
www.wgte.org
WGTE is a 70th Market, Joint Licensee, serving Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Broadcasting for over 50 years, our mission is to educate, enlighten and entertain through the use of mass and personal media of all platforms.
Matt Lauterbach
Program Associate, College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
matt79@uic.edu
VJ McAleer
SVP Community Partnerships, Prod. & Outreach
WTTW
vjmcaleer@wttw.com
www.wttw.com
Richard McCluney
Vice President of Productions
Publications and Learning Ventures
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
lrandulfe@cwf.org
www.history.org
Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia, is the world's largest living history museum, dedicated to interpreting the origins of the idea of America and how diverse peoples evolved into a society that valued liberty and equality. For seventy-five years, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has supported history education in the nation's schools, through electronic field trips broadcast on public television stations across the country, teacher development programs, and classroom resources-to help teachers enliven their classrooms with primary sources, artifact study, and engaging teaching strategies that bring excitement and vitality to the study of history.
Nancy Montoya
Digital Futures, Amphitheater School District
Executive Producer & Project Director
nmontoya@amphi.com
www.digitalfutures.org
Digital Futures is a partnership between several southern Arizona highschools and International Media that teaches middle and highschool students broadcast journalism using the latest digital technology and utilizing new media. Digital Futures is housed in the Amphitheater School District with support from Raytheon Missle Systems and Texas Instruments.
Lee Ann Nelson
Producer
Flamingo Productions, Inc.
lnelson@stchas.edu
Sydney Nelson
Production Assistant
Flamingo Productions, Inc.
lnelson@stchas.edu
Gordon Quinn
Producer
Kartemquin Films
joanna@kartemquin.com
www.kartemquin.com
Kartemquin Educational Films is one of the longest operating documentary production companies in the country. It has brought the study of humanity to film for almost 40 years by making documentaries that investigate and critique society through the lives of real people.
Josh Radinsky
Researcher
University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Ed.
joshuar@uic.edu
Debby Reagan
Grant Finder
K12, Inc.
dreagan@k12.com
www.k12.com
K12, Inc. is an education company committed to excellence in education and is currently delivering its comprehensive, standards- and research-based K-9 curriculum including American History integrated with Civics, Economics and Geography to over 20,000 students. The K12 program uses the most effective interactive technology and the Internet, in combination with offline materials and time-tested and research-based methods of instruction to open young minds to learn about the remarkable story of the world's longest-lived republic, the United States of America.
Elizabeth Richter
Principal
The Richter Group
erichter@alum.wellesley.edu
Elizabeth Richter helps clients deliver compelling educational content via multiple media platforms to target audiences. With executive experience in public and commercial television, theater, print, and the Internet. Ms. Richter is uniquely qualified to guide clients in how they create, package, distribute and promote educational content and build vibrant brands.
Zoe Samels
Student
University of Chicago
zsamels@uchicago.edu
Ann Savage
Director of Development
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
asavage@rbhayes.org
www.rbhayes.org/hayes
Frederick Schneider
Partner
Epoch Communications
fred.schneider@comcast.net
Douglas Seefeldt
Assistant Professor, History
University of Nebraska-Linocln
dseefelt2@unl.du
Bill Siegel
Director
The Free History Project
billis@rcn.com
The Free History Project is a non-profit, film production, distribution and educational outreach organization. Its mission is to help lifelong learners effectively engage with media, history, and humanities based-subjects, through independent documentary film and professional development for educators.
Angee Simmons
Producer
KCPT Public Television 19
angee_simmons@kcpt.org
Jon Siskel
Executive Producer/Co-owner
Siskel/Jacobs Productions
jsiskel@ameritech.net
Randall Smith
COO
Media Bridge Studios
rez404@tcq.net
Angela T. Spinazze
Independent researcher/information architect
Independent
ats@atspin.com
www.atspin.com
I work with museums, libraries, archives, and government agencies. My experience includes feasibility studies and strategic planning for new technologies; the design of metadata schemas, information standards, and databases; professional development workshops and seminars; project management and research about mobile and ubiquitous computing in informal learning environments.
Bill Wagner
Director of Productions
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
wwagner@cwf.org
www.history.org
Privately funded living history museum with a Video Production Unit. The Unit produces 14 live broadcast hours per year to K-8 audience via PBS and other educational satellite delivery systems on American history and life between 1607 and the Civil War. In addition, we also produce DVDs and audio CDs for sale to visitors. All of our content is based on history or how the museum displays the colonial time period to modern visitors.
Sarah Warner
Community Partnerships & Outreach Assistant
WTTW
swarner@wttw.com
Warren Watson
Director
J-Ideas
wwatson@bsu.edu
www.jideas.org
J-Ideas is an organization devoted to excellence in scholastic journalism. It focuses on First Amendment awareness and media litreracy. Ball State is a university of some 21,000 students located 60 miles north of Indianapolis in Muncie, Ind.
Janis Watson
Curriculum Developer
Agency for Instructional Technology
jwatson@ait.net
www.ait.net
Since 1962 the Agency for Instructional Technology has been a leading nonprofit U.S. and Canadian educational organization. Our learning resources, including more than 2,400 individual educational titles, are used on six continents and reach nearly 34 million students each year, making AIT one of the largest providers of instructional media and digital content preparation services in North America.
Susan Wunder
Associate Professor
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Linocln
swunder1@unl.edu
www.unl.edu
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research Extensive University. Representatives from the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education , the Department of History, and NET attended the Chicago informational meeting.