Tom Daccord is co-Director of EdTechTeacher and author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers and The Best of History Web Sites. A veteran "laptop teacher" who instructed in a wireless laptop environment for seven years, Tom has been featured in the Boston Globe for his contributions to teaching with technology. He is creator and co-webmaster of Best of History Web Sites, an award-winning portal that receives upwards of two million visitors a year and co-director of The Center for Teaching History with Technology, whose mission is to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Tom also is the creator and co-webmaster of Teaching English and Language Arts with Technology.A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Montreal, Tom has taught in France, Quebec, Switzerland, and the United States and has presented on educational technology topics various national and regional conferences. Tom is currently President of the NCSS Technology Committee and will be a featured speaker at the 2010 National Council for the Social Studies Conference.
Justin Reichis co-Director of EdTechTeacher, and author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers. Justin is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard University School of Education and project manager of the Digital Collaborative Learning Communities Project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. He taught World History and Topics in Modern History at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. While at Noble and Greenough Justin developed a variety of new curriculum and lesson plans around chatting, blogging, and other projects involving new and emerging technologies. He has written several articles on technology integration that have appeared in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. Justin is co-webmaster of Best of History Web Sites and co-director of The Center for Teaching History with Technology, along with Tom.
Carla Beard is a veteran English teacher and educational technology specialist for the state of Indiana who has presented at conventions and workshops nationally. Carla is creator and webmaster of the award-winning Web English Teacher, a popular web portal that presents the best of K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, classroom activities and more. She has written and presented extensively on technology in the English/Language Arts curriculum, including a National Council of Teachers of English presentation entitled "Technology and English/Language Arts." In 2004 Carla was named to the Educator Advisory Board of AOL@School and has also served as National Teacher Advisor for Cable in the Classroom. She has also evaluated National Endowment for the Humanities grant applications in technology. Currently the English Department Chair at Connersville High School in Indiana, Ms. Beard has converted all English/Language Arts classrooms at her school to computer classrooms and regularly leads in-service sessions on using technology effectively.
Darren Kuropatwa is Department Head of Mathematics at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute (http://www.danielmac.net/) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Convener of the K12Online Conference (http://www.k12onlineconference.org/). He is known internationally for his ability to weave online social tools meaningfully and concretely into his pedagogical practice. Darren has over 20 years experience in education and 13 years in leadership training. Darren's professional blog is called A Difference (http://adifference.blogspot.com).
Alycia Scott-Hiser is Academic Technology Director at the Noble and Greenough School. A lifelong artist whose original interest in technology was as a tool for making art, Ms. Scott-Hiser has been teaching media classes at both the high school and college level starting in the early 90s when Adobe Photoshop and other digital imaging tools were brand new. For four years she developed and taught a variety of technology classes at a one-to-one laptop school in Boston. This experience broadened her interest in academic technology across the curriculum. During her years at Nobles she has facilitated various collaborative, content-based, multimedia projects by leveraging student interest and student facility with emerging technologies.
Douglas Kiang is a technology integration specialist with over 15 years of teaching experience at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Tufts University and a Master's Degree in Technology in Education from Harvard. In 2007 he was one of two Massachusetts teachers to be honored as an Apple Distinguished Educator, recognizing his innovative work with iPods in the middle school curriculum. Douglas currently is a Technology Resource Teacher at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Erin McCloskey is a doctoral candidate in the Learning and Teaching program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where she does research on online teacher professional development, focusing on the relationship between technologically-mediated learning and intercultural learning. Her dissertation is a qualitative investigation of how a internationally diverse group of English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers, in the context of an online professional development course, develop their intercultural competence and build capacity to foster similar skills in their classrooms. Erin received the University’s prestigious Presidential Fellowship upon admission into the doctoral program. She has taught professional development courses about sheltered instruction for ELLs through the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT; served as an advisor to pre-service secondary school teachers in the Boston Public Schools through the HGSE Teacher Education Program; advised HGSE faculty on the incorporation of technology in instruction; and served as a teaching fellow for several HGSE courses in the Technology, Innovation and Education program, including Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies, Emerging Educational Technologies, and Engagement and Motivation: Technologies that Invite and Immerse. Currently she is the principal consultant on a project to develop online courses for Costa Rican Spanish-literacy teachers, in collaboration with Costa Rica’s leading distance university, La Universidad Estatal a Distancia, and Amigos del Aprendizaje, an NGO dedicated to promoting research-based literacy practices in Costa Rican public schools.
David Strasburger is Science Department Head, Physics Teacher, and Faculty Evaluation Member at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Winner of the Vernon L. Greene award for Faculty Excellence, David has a long interest in thoughtful integration of technology into the classroom and on the delicate interface between new, constantly-evolving tools and a teacher's instructional style and goals. He has presented at several educational technology events, including the 2008 Teaching with New and Emerging Technologies Conference. A 20-year veteran teacher, David has taught biology, astronomy, and geometry in addition to Physics.
Tom Daccord is co-Director of 
Justin Reich is co-Director of EdTechTeacher, and author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers. Justin is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard University School of Education and project manager of the Digital Collaborative Learning Communities Project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. He taught World History and Topics in Modern History at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. While at Noble and Greenough Justin developed a variety of new curriculum and lesson plans around chatting, blogging, and other projects involving new and emerging technologies. He has written several articles on technology integration that have appeared in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. Justin is co-webmaster of Best of History Web Sites and co-director of The Center for Teaching History with Technology, along with Tom.
Carla Beard is a veteran English teacher and educational technology specialist for the state of Indiana who has presented at conventions and workshops nationally. Carla is creator and webmaster of the award-winning 
Darren Kuropatwa is Department Head of Mathematics at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute (
Alycia Scott-Hiser is Academic Technology Director at the Noble and Greenough School. A lifelong artist whose original interest in technology was as a tool for making art, Ms. Scott-Hiser has been teaching media classes at both the high school and college level starting in the early 90s when Adobe Photoshop and other digital imaging tools were brand new. For four years she developed and taught a variety of technology classes at a one-to-one laptop school in Boston. This experience broadened her interest in academic technology across the curriculum. During her years at Nobles she has facilitated various collaborative, content-based, multimedia projects by leveraging student interest and student facility with emerging technologies.
Douglas Kiang is a technology integration specialist with over 15 years of teaching experience at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Tufts University and a Master's Degree in Technology in Education from Harvard. In 2007 he was one of two Massachusetts teachers to be honored as an Apple Distinguished Educator, recognizing his innovative work with iPods in the middle school curriculum. Douglas currently is a Technology Resource Teacher at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Erin McCloskey is a doctoral candidate in the Learning and Teaching program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where she does research on online teacher professional development, focusing on the relationship between technologically-mediated learning and intercultural learning. Her dissertation is a qualitative investigation of how a internationally diverse group of English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers, in the context of an online professional development course, develop their intercultural competence and build capacity to foster similar skills in their classrooms. Erin received the University’s prestigious Presidential Fellowship upon admission into the doctoral program. She has taught professional development courses about sheltered instruction for ELLs through the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT; served as an advisor to pre-service secondary school teachers in the Boston Public Schools through the HGSE Teacher Education Program; advised HGSE faculty on the incorporation of technology in instruction; and served as a teaching fellow for several HGSE courses in the Technology, Innovation and Education program, including Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies, Emerging Educational Technologies, and Engagement and Motivation: Technologies that Invite and Immerse. Currently she is the principal consultant on a project to develop online courses for Costa Rican Spanish-literacy teachers, in collaboration with Costa Rica’s leading distance university, La Universidad Estatal a Distancia, and Amigos del Aprendizaje, an NGO dedicated to promoting research-based literacy practices in Costa Rican public schools. 
David Strasburger is Science Department Head, Physics Teacher, and Faculty Evaluation Member at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Winner of the Vernon L. Greene award for Faculty Excellence, David has a long interest in thoughtful integration of technology into the classroom and on the delicate interface between new, constantly-evolving tools and a teacher's instructional style and goals. He has presented at several educational technology events, including the 2008 Teaching with New and Emerging Technologies Conference. A 20-year veteran teacher, David has taught biology, astronomy, and geometry in addition to Physics.