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Ken Grodjesk

Dr. Ken Grodjesk began his educational career teaching Junior High School science in Pekin, Illinois, District # 108. During those 23 years, he integrated technology into his science instruction on a continual basis. Ken served as an adjunct professor at Illinois Central College and for Northern Illinois University while continuing to teach in District # 108. He accepted a position at Monmouth College in the Education Department. While at Monmouth, he served as the co-chair of the AV Technology Committee, an Ameritech Teaching Learning Mentor, and the campus liaison to MITC (Midwest Instructional Technology Center). In addition, he developed an Electronic Portfolio and made that an integral part of the Teacher Education Program. Currently, Ken is responsible for developing the Teacher Education Program and its technology component at Carl Sandburg College.

Roger Hampton

Roger has been active in the arena of public education for thirty-four years and has served in a variety of educational positions. Responsibilities at Peoria Heights School District have ranged from classroom teacher to his current position as District Technology Coordinator.  He has also conducted many classes, workshops and training seminars throughout the state for a variety of audiences. Roger greatly enjoys sharing information about how technology utilization within the classroom can engage students. He especially like the quote: "If they don't learn the way I teach, I must teach the way they learn."

Sheryl Hinman

Sheryl is an English and journalism instructor at Galesburg High School. She has worked with Carl Sandburg College to construct a website using WebCT. The site contains units used by high school students to develop historical background on classic literature. In addition, she has worked with several student teams that have developed sites for ThinkQuest, an international competition creating educational websites.

Beverly Naslund

Beverly Naslund retired from Carl Sandburg College in May, 2006 and currently works as EduNet Coordinator for the College.  Previously, Beverly served as Director of Carl Sandburg College's Bushnell Extension Center.  Prior to coming to CSC, Beverly was the Coordinator of the K-12 Professional Development Division of C.A.I.T. (Center for the Application of Information Technologies) at Western Illinois University. At WIU, Beverly also served as adjunct faculty, co-chair of the Technology Planning Committee for the Teacher Education Program, broadcast coordinator for five satellite broadcasts on technology planning, and co-director of the MASS (Math and Science Solutions) Project-Year One and Year Two, an Eisenhower Professional Development grant that connected math and science teachers in twelve schools throughout Illinois using a variety of technologies.

Diana Norris

Diana has taught a variety of computer courses on a variety of computer platforms to adults for over 14 years. She has been working at Carl Sandburg College for six years; three, of which, were at the Educational Technology Center. Currently she is the Coordinator of the Business and Computing Technology Lab which offers 20 courses to students on an independent basis -- 11 of which are also offered as online courses. Diana has a BS in Business Education and a MS in Instructional Technology and Telecommunications.

Kim Sheetz

Kim Sheetz has been the Public Affairs/Education Manager for Insight Communications, Peoria District, for the past two years and General Manager of the Galesburg system for 3 years prior to that. Kim's background is in business, and she has been active civically and politically for several years and has 3 children.

Jean Tulin

Teacher, Knoxville High School, Math (Geometry and Algebra) and Computers (Programming, Website design, and Publishing) BA Mathematics from Millikin University, MS Mathematics Education from Illinois State University

The WIU Team

Marisa Beard

Marisa Beard has been involved in the educational field for the past 20 years. In the past she worked through grant funded projects at WIU with preschool teachers and students throughout Illinois. She currently works for The Office of Teacher Education Partnerships at Western Illinois University where she develops and presents a variety of technology workshops that are offered to P-12 teachers around Illinois. She also received her Masters in Instructional Technology and Telecommunication from WIU in 1998 and has taught as adjunct faculty for the ITT and EIS department at WIU. She enjoys helping teachers go from a fear of using technology in the classroom to embracing technology as an indispensable classroom tool.

Danielle Brush

Danielle Brush, a trainer for the Office of Teacher Education Partnerships in the College of Education and Human Services at Western Illinois University, enjoys assisting teachers in integrating technology into their classrooms. Since receiving her Master's Degree in ITT in 1998, she has been working with educators throughout the area, on a variety of computer topics and issues, previously as ROE #26 Technology Coordinator and currently in her position at WIU. She also has taught as adjunct faculty for the ITT and EIS departments at WIU. She loves to see teachers move from a literacy level of learning technology programs to adapting the program for use with students.

Josh Butcher

The CSC IT Team

Ben Derry

Ben is the Coordinator of Computing Services at Carl Sandburg College.
 

Ray Martinez

Ray is the Instructional Network Technician for Carl Sandburg College.  He is in charge of setup and maintenance of classroom computers as needed to fill the instructional needs of faculty at the college.  Ray assists faculty in development of instructional material as newer technologies are presented for instruction.  As a member of the Helpdesk team, he also serves the students to make sure that they are using our resources to their highest potential and answer any questions they might have and assists in anyway that he can.
 

Fred Johnson

Fred graduated from Western Illinois University in 1972 with a B.S. in Physics. Since then he has worked as a broadcast engineer and taught electronics classes at CSC. For several years prior to coming to CSC as a full time employee, Fred ran a small business that specialized in VCR repair. Fred`s title here at Carl Sandburg College is Coordinator of Teledata Networking Services. His duties include network and telephone system maintenance as well as video production and assisting faculty with some of the technical details of putting instructional materials on the web. Fred has helped assemble much of the Sandburg.Net web site including the CyberCamp pages.