Keynote Speakers
Bill Cope is a Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and an Adjunct Professor in the Globalism Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. Australia. He is also a director of Common Ground Publishing, developing new web publishing technologies. He is a former First Assistant Secretary in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. His current research interests include theories and practices of pedagogy, cultural and linguistic diversity, and new technologies of representation and communication. With Mary Kalantzis, he is co-author or editor of a number of books, including Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures, Routledge, London, 2000 and New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Barbara Ganley is Founder and Director of the new national organization, Centers for Community Digital Learning, Barbara Ganley has spent her career exploring integrated learning across formal and informal contexts. For nineteen years as a lecturer in the Writing Program and English Department at Middlebury College, and director of Middlebury’s Project for Integrated Expression, Barbara taught innovative courses in creative writing, composition, arts writing, and Irish literature and film. An active implementer of new media and Web 2.0 practices within writing classrooms since 2001, her research interests include the multimedia essay as a means of academic and vernacular discourse and social software as a vehicle for personal expression, community-building, and connected learning. Since 2004 she has kept a professional blog to explore the pedagogical, philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to the emergent learning outcomes in her uses of digital and communication technologies in the classroom and out in the world. You can find her blogging at bgblogging.wordpress.com.