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KATHLEEN ODEAN is known throughout the country for her lively presentations on new young adult books. This is her ninth year of presenting all new seminars that receive excellent evaluations from participants. Kathleen has been a youth librarian since 1982, and served as chairperson of the Newbery Award Committee. Teachers, librarians and parents have come to rely on her guides including Great Books for Girls (Ballantine, 2002 rev. ed.), for which Kathleen appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Katie Couric, Great Books for Boys (Ballantine, 1998), and Great Books about Things Kids Love (Ballantine, 2001).
She is an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches young adult literature, and an instructor in Mansfield University’s on-line School Libraries and Information Technologies program. She is the young adult fiction reviewer for Teacher-Librarian, and also reviews for Kirkus and The Providence Journal.
BARBARA MEAGHER is an assistant
professor in the journalism and film media departments
at the University of Rhode Island. Since 2003, she has taught such courses
as Television News, Foundations of American Journalism, History of Broadcasting,
Free Speech in American Society, and Introduction to Radio and TV News.
She also developed the course, Creating Multimedia for News Websites.
Professor Meagher comes to academia from a twenty-one-year career in television
news where she was an investigative reporter at WLNE-TV
in Providence. Her recent journalistic work has included working as a
host/reporter for WRNI, Rhode Island’s NPR station; contributing
op-ed pieces to The Providence Journal and articles to Communicator, the
magazine for members of the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
She is also the producer of "Fighting for Information," an instructional
DVD that tells three real stories to demonstrate how journalists have
to tangle with the government to bring important stories to the public.
As president of Access/RI, the state’s freedom
of information coalition, Professor Meagher is leading an effort to overhaul
Rhode Island’s access to public records law. She was elected to
the URI Faculty Senate in 2006 and to the Executive Committee for the
2008-2009 academic year. She has a B.A. in Special and Elementary Education
from Boston College and a M.S. in Broadcast Journalism from the Boston
University College of Communication.
JO-ANNE HART, Ph.D., has
been a full-time university professor for nearly 20 years at Brown University
and Lesley University. Currently, Dr. Hart divides her time between two
pursuits: technology in education and the politics of
Middle East security. Dr. Hart has many years of experience in secondary
and college-level teacher training and curriculum development in social
studies. She is working with the Choices education project at Brown University
to help develop and implement high school curriculum about international
public policy issues.
Several years ago Dr. Hart shifted her academic concentration to issues
in education, with particular reference to technology and gender. Dr.
Hart was the Director of a large-scale NSF grant project at Northeastern
University that focused on college women and girls from grades 5-12 to
promote their studies and interest in science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics. Hart has created three new courses for Lesley University’s
Technology in Education Program: Technology and Social Studies,
Bridging Technology Gaps, and The Impact of Technology
on Society and Schools. She teaches the courses and mentors adjunct
faculty for them.
Dr. Hart is the creator and designer of "Growing Voters and Elections
2004: Complete Curriculum for Teachers Grades 1-12," a collaborative
curriculum project published online by Lesley University in 2004
and downloaded by nearly 2000 teachers in all 50 states. She presented
on the project at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC)
in 2005.
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