Speaker: Baynard Bailey

Baynard Bailey is an Academic Computing Consultant for Vassar College.

Baynard has a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Instructional Technology. He taught K-12 for 16 years before coming to Vassar. He loves helping to develop multimedia projects in support of learning and teaching. He especially likes digital storytelling projects and anything Web 2.0 (blogs, wikis, & social networking).

Speaker: Steve Covello

Steve Covello is the Rich Media Specialist at Granite State College's Educational Technology department. He earned an MS in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation from Syracuse University, with a concentration in Interactive Technology and Distributed Learning. Steve's background includes teaching online, website design and development on the WordPress platform, television commercial and broadcast post-production, graphic animation, and digital music composing. 

Steve's professional work involves working with faculty to improve student engagement in online courses through the use of multimedia, Web-based interaction, and common webtools used in professional practice, and is currently leading the implementation of Chalk & Wire e-portfolio system for GSC's Graduate Studies programs. Other projects have included designing and developing a WordPress multisite e-portfolio blog system in collaboration with GSC's Individualized Studies department for Prior Learning Assessment, designing GSC's online Faculty Resource Center, and presenting at USNH's Academic Technology Institute.


Speaker: Ben Harwood

Ben Harwood is an instructional technologist with the Academic Technologies group in IT at Skidmore College. His interests include current and emerging technologies as well as traditional and experimental approaches to teaching, collaboration and research. Before coming to Skidmore in 2007, Ben was an instructional designer at the TLT Center at Seton Hall University. He previously worked as a research technologist and web designer in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Ben received a M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Design from Penn State University. Last year, he attended the EDUCAUSE Institute Learning Technology Leadership Program held in Portland, OR. Ben enjoys spending time with his family, photography, home improvement projects, cooking and traveling. He is fluent in French having spent nearly five years working and teaching in France. Ben is a huge WordPress fan and blogs at http://harwoodben.com
 

Speaker: Trip Kirkpatrick

I am a Senior Academic Technologist in the Instructional Technology Group of Yale University. I'm one of the coordinators of the Digital Humanities Working Group of the Whitney Humanities Center, and chair the Collaborative Learning Center. I've also been lead organizer of Yale's first two internal unconferences on IT, doing my best to poke holes in the walls separating IT practitioners at the university, and have been seen leading a hand-on media lab for an undergraduate humanities course. To the extent I can be said to have research interests, they include plurilingualism and pluriculturalism in Digital Humanities as well as the action research area of introducing Digital Humanities in a highly traditional and change-averse institution.
 

Speaker: Michael Branson Smith

Michael Branson Smith is an artist and blogger who has taught media production and networked culture courses for the Communications Technology program at York College, CUNY. He is the Director of Academic Computing and Educational Technology at York advocating for the adoption of networked pedagogies. He has been using Wordpress as part of his teaching and research for three years. He is the Outreach Coordinator for the CUNY Academic Commons an academic social network built on Wordpress and Buddypress that connects over 3000 faculty members, administrators, and graduate students in a multi-campus university system.

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