2009 Fall Conference: SPEAKERS
September 17 - 19, Lexington Downtown Hotel (A Hilton Affiliate)
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David Warlick (Keynote Speaker)
David Warlick's unique voice and message combine a wide range of experiences, both in and outside the education arena. He ran two businesses before graduating from high school and spent more than a year in manufacturing before completing his undergraduate work. Mr. Warlick worked for nearly ten years as a middle school social studies, math, and science teacher, during which he also wrote award-winning instructional software and introduced hundreds of teachers to the educational potentials of personal computers.
In 1984, David moved to a central office position, as Director of Technology and then on to the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction where he served as a technology integration consultant and built the nation's first state department of education web site.
Since 1995, Mr. Warlick has been the owner and principal consultant of The Landmark Project, a professional development and innovations firm in Raleigh North Carolina. During this time David has spoken at conferences and delivered workshops for educators throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, and South America.
David Warlick has been an innovator and leader in the field of educational technology and a prolific programmer. His classroom blogging site, Class Blogmeister, serves more than 100,000 users, and his attribution tool, Citation Machine, receives more than a half-million page views a day. These and all of his other web tools for teachers are free.
David has also written three books about technology and contemporary literacy, and has contributed to other publications including Technology & Learning Magazine, ALA's KnowledgeQuest, Education World, and CUE Online, and has been quoted in Education Week, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY.
What makes David Warlick a highly effective and sought-after speaker is that, at heart, he is a teacher with a contagious passion and enthusiasm for helping people discover a brand new world of teaching and learning.
Learn more about David on his blog at: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
Laura Terrill (Featured Speaker)
Laura Terrill holds a BA in French from the University of Missouri - St. Louis and a MA in Secondary Administration from Northeast Missouri State University. She taught French at all levels for 21 years before becoming the Coordinator of Foreign Language and English as a Second Language and then, Director of Curriculum in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO before taking early retirement to join her husband in Puerto Rico. She has taught methods courses at Washington University and has been active at the local, state, regional and national levels. She recently served as the Central States delegate to the ACTFL Board and was the 2006 Program Chair for the ACTFL Convention. She is currently living in Indianapolis and working as a consultant.