Technology update

KUDOS

ENDORSEMENT

The following individuals received endorsement for a license in educational administration since the last newsletter:

K-12 Principal
Scott Alger, John Canny, James Roussin, and Jane Voss

Superintendent
Sandy Lewandowski
Director of Special Education
Dawn Western

Grants and awards

Scott McLeod, An Examination of School Technology Support Personnel, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, $5000.

Honors, activities, and presentations

Cryss Brunner is one of four University personnel to receive an award through the University of Minnesota Digital Media Center (DMC) 2003 Faculty Fellowship Program. She will work on "Conceptions of Power, Constructions of Identity, and Socially Just Decision-Making: Using Technologically Delivered Experiential Simulations for Leadership Preparation" during spring and summer 2003.

Cryss Brunner presented the paper "Invisible, Limited, and Emerging Discourse: Research Practices that Restrict and/or Increase Access for Women and Persons of Color to the Superintendency," at the annual national meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration in November, Pittsburgh, PA. At that same conference, Dr. Brunner co-presented the paper "Shared Power and Conflict in Collaboration: Implications for Curriculum Change and Student Achievement."

David Chapman spent three days in early November working with colleagues at the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations' (UNESCO) International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris on a project focused on technology use in primary and secondary education in low- and middle-income countries.

David Chapman presented a paper, "Strengthening Higher Education in Countries in Transition: An Analysis of the Issues," as part of a symposium at the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Nov. 20-24, Sacramento, CA. He also presented "Innovation in Secondary Education: A Five-Country Study of Education Reform Since Independence in Eurasia" at the eighth UNESCO—Asia and Pacific Educational Innovation for Development international conference on education, Nov. 28-29, Bangkok, Thailand.

Arthur Harkins gave five presentations on higher education support for continuous social and economic innovation at universities and colleges in Ukraine during late October and early November. He returned to Ukraine in January to assist a StoryTech-based Delphi project focused on the policy implications of selected innovation scenarios.

John Cogan was a featured speaker at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OBECD) forum on "Schooling for Tomorrow" (SFT), Feb. 12-14, Poitiers, France. He addressed OECD representatives from around the world on research he is directing through the Pacific Circle Consortium (PCC), an OECD affiliate. ON Feb. 11, Cogan also served as an expert to an OECD/Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) meeting in Paris on school reform initiatives in various OECD member countries. The 27th PCC conference will be helpd here at the University of Minnesota at the Radisson, April 16-18. For more information see www.education.umn.edu/EdPA/PCC2003/welcome.htm.

David Chapman has been appointed to a two-year term on the Governing Council of the Institute for Research, Education, and Consultation of the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Washington, D.C. He has also been appointed to a two-year term on the Information Technology Advisory Committee of the Commissioning Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, Philadelphia, PA, which oversees the screening of foreign trained nurses seeking to work in the U.S.

Chapman has been appointed for a three-year term to the Public Affairs Committee of the American Evaluation Association, on which he will serve as a committee member during 2003 and as committee chair during 2004. Chapman has been selected by UNICEF to serve as team leader for the yearlong evaluation of the African Girls' Education Initiative (AGEI), a 34-country, $50 million project funded by Norway to promote girls' education in Africa.

Arthur Harkins met with members of the innovation studies faculty at East London University (ELU) during mid-December 2002 to discuss possible collaborations amont ELU, EdPA's program in comparative and international development education, and the U of M College of Continuing Education's program in innovation studies.

Publications

Gerald Fry: "The Interface between Experiential Learning and the Internet: Ways for Improving Learning Productivity," On the Horizon, 2002.

Arthur Harkins (with Brenda Fiala in London): "Personal Capital and Virtual Selves: Learning to Manage the Five 'Divides,'" On the Horizon, 2002.

Gerald Fry and Pham Lan Huong: "The Emergence of Private Higher Education in Vietnam: Challenges and Opporutnities," Educational Research for Policy and Practice 1, 2002.

Gerald Fry contributed the introductory essay, "The Power of Economic Understanding," and chapters on Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to the new reference work, Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies (four volumes): Gale Group, 2002.

Cryss Brunner (with William Nichols of UW-Madison and EdPA student Rachel Brown): "Advancing Social Justice as a Part of Educational Leadership Development: The Potential of Imaging Technologies," On The Horizon.

Karen Seashore (with U of M faculty Sara Dexter and Ron Anderson): "Contributions of Professional Community to Exemplary Use of ICT," Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2002.