Sandburg.Net / Cyber Camp 2008 / Presenters

Brian Adams

Cindy Arthur

My teaching experience began at Bushnell-Prairie City High School after receiving my business education degree from Eastern Illinois University in May of 1979. After 20 years at B-PC, I accepted a position at Abingdon High School where I am currently teaching computer courses on a 8 block system. At both schools I have been fortunate enough to work with an administration that believes in technology. With that support, my students have had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of software programs as well as other technology tools.

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 STAR-Onsite in the College of Education and Human Services 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 STAR-Online 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.

Debbie Danner

Debbie Danner has played a key role in developing online modules for STAR-Online since its conception. She continues to work for STAR-Online as well as being an onsite trainer for STAR-Onsite. She also received her Masters in Instructional Technology and Telecommunication from WIU and has taught as adjunct faculty for the ITT department at WIU. She enjoys helping teachers learn new ways to implement technology into the classroom.

Roger Hampton

Roger has been active in the educational arena for thirty-nine years, during which time he served in a variety of educational roles. He is retired from Peoria Heights School District, where his involvements ranged from classroom teacher to District Technology Coordinator.  Roger's consulting business (The "H" Team, Inc.) allows him to share his experiences and expertise via facilitating classes, leading workshops and directing seminars throughout the state for a variety of audiences. Roger especially enjoys sharing information about how technology utilization within the classroom can engage students. He considers the quote: "If they don't learn the way I teach, I must teach the way they learn" to be the impetus for productive and positive change.

Leaunda Hemphill

Dr. Leaunda Hemphill has been helping educators develop technology integration skills since 1990. She teaches technology-integration courses to pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and administrators. She also conducts K12 and higher education workshops.

Shawn Hickey

I teach social studies at Galesburg High School. I have been teaching for 8 years. I graduated from Galesburg High School and Monmouth College. I will have a master's in Teaching and Leadership in May from St. Xavier.

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.

Becca Knaack

Becca founder and CEO of bkids (Becca's Karing Individuals for Disabilities, Inc. NFP), graduated from Phoenix Perth Partners in Policy Making 2000, served as the board chair for Stone-Hayes Center for Independent Living, previous STARnet Parent Advisory member, Parent Liaison for Child and Family Connections Early Intervention and currently works as an Executive Assistant for Chuck Ross Mel Foster Company. 

Paul Schuytema

Paul Schuytema is an Educational Technology Specialist for University of Illinois Extension. His role is to design, produce and implement software simulations, web applications and serious games which support the University's Outreach mission. Schuytema holds an MFA in writing from the University of North Carolina, and has worked as a professional software developer since 1996. He has published over 200 articles and fourteen books on technology and has shipped over 20 commercial software titles.

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

Ledith Whitehall

Ledith is an Instructional Technologist for the STAR-Online Project. She has been involved with the project since 1997 as a pilot teacher, district facilitator and as a part of the project's dissemination plan. Ledith has ten years of experience in education; 8 years as a classroom teacher and 2 years as a District Technology Coordinator.

The CSC IT Team

Ben Derry

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

Ray Martinez

Ray is the Coordinator of Academic Computing Services 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 Teledata Networking Specialist. 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.