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Richard Carter is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Lesley University. He teaches graduate courses in Integrating Technology into the Curriculum in both online and face-to-face formats and works in Lesley's new Math Achievement Center which is devoted to Mathematics professional development for teachers. He developed and mentors an online version of the Integrating Technology into the Math Curriculum course. He is also currently developing an online professional development program in mathematics for K-8 teachers with the Mathemagica Project. Recently he worked on the authoring team for a new middle school mathematics program, IMPACT, published by Everyday Learning.

Prior to his work at Lesley Dr. Carter was a Senior Scientist in the GTE/BBN Education Technologies Group where he developed technology-based mathematics curriculum and professional development materials. He led projects that developed distance learning courses and video case materials in the uses of technology for middle school mathematics teachers. His work and research over the past two decades have focused on supporting teacher professional development through the use of technology to support hands-on inquiry based learning by both teachers and students.

Melanie Zibit, Assistant Research Professor at Boston College, researches how to build and facilitate online learning communities for K-16 organizations. Her work includes Co-Principal Investigator of an NSF grant that developed an online professional development model with rural and urban teachers in central NY; Developer of the online learning component for a Department of Education Star Schools mathematics project for K-8 teachers, and designer of a literacy telementoring program for at-risk high school students.

An Internet pioneer since the late 80's, she was instrumental in helping convince Harvard University other prominent New England schools of the Internet's future. (They subsequently became wired). As a senior scientist at BBN in the 90's, she led projects in educational technology development, online community building, and school networking. Ms. Zibit has an M.Ed. from the University of Illinois, an MBA from Harvard, and a BA from Brandeis University.

David Reider has been very active both in developing, promoting, designing and evaluating educational reform efforts in the arts, technology, and science and mathematics. Many of his projects have merged technology with arts-education such as World Band, one of the earliest Internet instances of a cross-site concert (1995) where students in Germany collaborated with students in Korea to perform together over the Internet using desktop computer technology. His Online Music Education Learning model (1997) merged live radio performance with integrated classroom curriculum, video-conferencing, and Internet media-rich curriculum to help middle school students across the country understand new classical music.

His Kids ‘N Music model, developed for Co-nect schools in five states demonstrated how the arts lead to classroom study in all other curricular areas while developing overall learning mastery. Kids ‘N Blues was nominated to the President’s Council on the Arts and Humanities 1998 National Report of Best Practices and won the National School Board Association 1998 Technology Innovation Award. It led to a three-year expansion, Kids ‘N Salsa (1999-2001) which involved 21 schools in three South Florida counties.

Formerly a professional musician (saxophone and flute), he played with the Boston Art Quartet for 8 years. He has appeared in clubs, concerts and festivals abroad in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, and Korea, as well as Stateside. As a composer he has written for dance and film.

He is also Visiting Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he directs technology learning programs and initiatives and has developed the Matrix of Embedded Technology Applications (META) competency model.