Education Technology Experts

All travelers travel the roads created by pioneers. As educators we base our efforts on proven concepts and theories created by pioneers in our profession. Some of the Education technology pioneers I will follow are listed below.

Bernie Dodge

Dr Dodge works at San Diego State University. He pioneered Web-quests, and he created QuestGarden (a webquest authoring website).  http://questgarden.com/


Here is a link to Dr Dodges Website at the university http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/

Webquest.org is a blog that describes web-quests and the research that provided the foundation for them.
http://webquest.org/index.php



Diana G. Oblinger
Dr Oblinger is the president and CEO of Educause. She has worked in both the academic world and the business world. Prior to her work with Educause, "Dr. Oblinger was the Executive Director of Higher Education for Microsoft, and the IBM Director of the Institute for Academic Technology. She was also the Vice President for Information Resources and the Chief Information Officer for the University of North Carolina system" (List of Private Companies Worldwide, Letter - Businessweek. (n.d.). Businessweek.com. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=30608742&privcapId=4629839&previousCapId=4629839&previousTitle=Educause)

Here is a link the the Educause website. http://www.educause.edu/
Educause is a nonprofit organization that promotes education through the use of information technology. They sponsor conferences and other activities to promote technology and education.

Kate Peila

Kate Peila is an elementary school teacher from Montana. She writes a blog by the name of purely paperless. The blog focuses on a variety of technologies for education--Kate focuses on electronic organizational tips.

Here is a link to her blog. http://www.purelypaperless.com/

Michael Karlin

Mr. Karlin is a biology and technology teacher. He began his teaching career in Kansas, but he has been teaching in Korea and South America for the last two  years. His blog Ed tech roundup describes several technologies to assist teachers.

Here is a link to his blog http://www.edtechroundup.org/