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The
Guest Speakers and Facilitators:
Steve
Burks is
located at the Library & Information Services
at Saint Michael's College Durick Library in Vermont.
He works in the areas of Library Reference and Instruction
and as a Library Web Developer. The majority
of his 'working life' has -- and we quote -- been
"as a railroad brakeman/conductor on freight
trains in
Wyoming and
Vermont. [He's] worked
as a gandy-dancer, 'pearl diver,' rough neck, doodle
bugger, ranch hand, amongst other long and short
term solutions to making money and experiencing the
western
states." He has written an online guide to
Citing Internet and Electronic Sources,
which we needed to read
to cite the quote about his work experiences! [top] |
Karine
Durgaryan is
the country coordinator for iEARN
in Armenia and has participated in the iEARN "Holocaust/Genocide Project" and "Nature
through the eyes of generations Project." She also works as the Head of
the Computer Educational Center at the National Children's Library of Armenia. [top] |
| Celia
Einhorn is
a consultant for iEARN's online Creative Arts and Writing
classes and face-to-face workshops. Her nickname is the
Computer Fairy, given to her by a young student. She
resides in the mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico,
USA. She was educated at the University of Massachusetts
and the University of New Mexico where she received a
degree in Literacy. She wears many facilitator hats ranging
from early literacy assessment to computational science
projects. She enjoys engaging five to fifty year olds
in active learning. [top] |
| Larry
Frates has
joined iEARN this year as a co-facilitator for the online
Creative
Arts Course and brings with him 32
years of experience as a watercolorist, educator, storyteller,
caricature artist, puppeteer, magician, children's television
host, actor, and creative consultant. His educational
background includes a Bachelor of Science in Art Education
with a minor in printmaking from the Massachusetts College
of Art in Boston, Massachusetts and a Master of Education
in Applied Aesthetics from the University of Massachusetts
in Amherst, Massachusetts. He focused his studio interest
in watercolor at the Art Students League of New York
and continued to expand his knowledge of technology at
Indiana's Ball State University, before becoming active
in the area of integrated arts. [top] |
| Simon
Norton is
the Program Director for the School for International
Training's Youth Peacebuilding Programs. He has over
10 years'extensive experience teaching global issues,
politics
and leadership to young people from all over the world,
and directing international education programs. Simon
has a Bachelors in World Issues from SIT,and a Masters
in Global Education from the Harvard Graduate School
of Education. Simon has traveled to many countries,
and includes sea kayaking, farming, and storytelling
among his many interests. [top] |
| Maud
Seghers is
a Professional Development Intern at iEARN US for the
iEARN/Project Harmony Armenia project. You will enjoy
her Flemish accent
as she talks to you about her graduate studies in Comparative
and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia
University in New York City,
her vision of education as a site for social and political
activism and her passion for learning languages. Before
coming to NY, she worked
at the
English
Departments
of
the universities
of Da
Lat
and Can Tho in Vietnam for three years, where she co-designed
and implemented a professional development program for
the teaching staff. [top] |
| David
Shiman is
one of the founders of the Center for World Education
at
University of Vermont. The Center was created to help
teachers and prospective teachers develop a multicultural
and global perspective. The Center helps teachers and
students see the world as a whole and how each individual
fits into that whole. Areas such as human rights, social
and economic justice, cross-cultural understanding, multiculturalism,
ecological harmony, world hunger, alternative energy,
peace and the prevention of war are just a few of the
topics explored at the Center for World Education. His
book Teaching Human Rights is a core curriculum
for this focus. [top] |
Fern
Tavalin directs
the WEB Project, an award winning tech-nology non-profit
that focuses on collaborative learning in the humanities
and social sciences. Currently, the WEB Project is a
partner in The Flow of History, a Connecticut
River initiative of the federal Teaching American History
program. Recent
WEB projects have included: donation and support of video
equipment to Radio Victoria, a Salvadoran Youth
Radio Station; technical assistance to The Strolling
of the Heifers, a community-based project to raise
awareness of Vermont agriculture; and a three-year project
to gather
community interviews for a recently published history
of the Town of Putney. Fern has published extensively
on multimedia applications, collaborative online learning,
using technology to assist in the development of a community
of learners, and rural communities and technology.[top] |
| John
Ungerleider co-directs
the School of International Training's (SIT) CONTACT
(Conflict Transformation Across Cultures)
Graduate Certificate Program for international peace
builders and directs SIT's International Youth Peacebuilding
Camps for Greek and Turkish Cypriots; Catholics and Protestants
from Northern Ireland; and Arab and Jewish Israelis.
A former Fulbright senior scholar in Cyprus, he is also
director of the Vermont Governor's Institute on Current
Issues and Youth Activism and the Child Labor Education
and Action project. He teaches SIT courses in Conflict
and Identity and Multicultural Team Development. [top] |
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