Speaker: Michelle Barthelemy

Michelle Barthelemy is Coordinator of Distance Learning and Instructional technology at Greenfield Community. Her responsibilities include the coordination, development and facilitation of faculty workshops focusing on the use of various technologies available on campus as well as the campus' LMS, Moodle. Her professional interests are in interactive media and gaming for student engagement in online courses.


Speaker: Justin L’Italien

Justin L’Italien has been working at Plymouth State University in Plymouth New Hampshire since 2009, serving as an Instructional Technologist/Multimedia Specialist and Moodle administrator. Specializing in training and supporting faculty with utilizing academic technology, Justin strives to find appropriate solutions to everyday instructional problems.

Justin complements his formal background in business (MBA, BS Marketing) with hands-on experience working with learners of various backgrounds and technical abilities. He has also spent several semesters teaching undergraduate students the basics of Microsoft Office, thus appreciating the finesse of classroom management. Currently, Justin is working towards a certificate in Instructional Design Systems to better understand the intricacies of course design and development.


Speaker: Deb Sarlin

Deb Sarlin is on a LARC at Brandeis University -- the Library & Technology Services' informal Academic and Research Computing group. She gleefully serves as an Instructional Designer and as the DigiDame (or Digital Fellow) for Copley's World, the History Department's first Humanities Research Lab. Deb was a participant in the Whitney Museum's ISP program, holds an MFA in Film from Columbia, and received a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in Instructional Technology: theories of learning and the meaningful application of new or emerging technologies in higher education.


Speaker: Brad Turner

Brad Turner is a Coordinator of Faculty Support and Instructional Design at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Brad has experience developing technical documentation; designing and coordinating events and workshops; and supporting a variety of classroom-based technologies, including learning management systems, peer evaluation tools, audience response systems, lecture capture, and desktop video conferencing. Prior to joining UMass Amherst, Brad worked as a pharmaceutical medical writer and trainer for more than 10 years.


Speaker: Melissa Wetherby

Melissa Wetherby is the Lead Educational Technologist at Landmark College in Putney, VT, a college for students with learning disabilities (such as dyslexia), ADHD, and ASD. She serves as the administrator and trainer for the college’s Moodle site, and teaches Intro to Computer Apps as adjunct faculty in the computer science department. She coordinates and offers individualized and group instruction in educational technology to students, faculty, and staff. Melissa has been at Landmark since 2006, moving to her current position in 2010 after she earned her dual degree of a Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology and a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Marlboro College Graduate Center.


Speaker: Kevin Wiliarty

Kevin Wiliarty administers Moodle and WordPress at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where he trains users, creates documentation and develops custom modules for both applications. He has a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics (including Second Language Acquisition) from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in German from Harvard. His academic training included a focus on language pedagogy, and his ten years teaching German continue to inform his approach to academic technology. He is also the English-language translator of two recent German novels: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, both by Jan-Philipp Sendker.


Speaker: Fred Zinn

Fred Zinn is Associate Director of Academic Computing in the Office of Instructional Technologies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He oversees the group that provides support to faculty who use technologies in their teaching, including the campus LMS, instructional media production, audience response system, lecture capture, and an ever changing landscape of emerging technologies. He has a personal interest and expertise in topics related to visual literacy, information design, and fair use.