KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Electronic Constructivism: Innovative Technologies, Virtual Environments, and Inspiring Examples

Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder
Lesley University, USA

Abstract

What are the most innovative Web-based tools available to enhance your teaching and increase your personal productivity? Where are the best archives of images, videos, slideshows, and Web sites? How can virtual worlds create learning environments that will involve your students in ways never before possible?
In her keynote address, Dr. Yoder will address these questions and provide examples of how these emerging technologies can be incorporated into classes in appealing, imaginative ways. She will take you on virtual field trips, demonstrate new, educationally oriented networking tools, and show you data analysis utilities such as four and five dimensional graphs. You will come away with a collection of free tools and resources.

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder is a Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. She has had more than 25 years experience designing and teaching educational technology courses and directing one of the first fully online master's degree programs for educators. Dr. Yoder coined the term "Electronic Constructivism" and has written and presented extensively on emerging technologies and how to thoughtfully and creatively integrate them into existing curricula. She recently was appointed a Google Certified Educator. Dr. Yoder received her doctorate from Boston University in Educational Media and Technology, her master's degree in Computers in Education from Lesley University, and her bachelor's degree from George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.