Автор: Vera J. Lee

Delia Neuman is Professor Emerita at Drexel University, where she directed the program to prepare school librarians/media specialists, and Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, where she oversaw a similar program.  She has published widely in the areas of information literacy, instructional design, and qualitative research and was the writer on the committee that produced Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (ALA, 1998), which introduced the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the K-12 arena.   Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo is Associate Clinical Professor of Literacy Studies in the School of Education at Drexel University.  She spent 20 years in public and Catholic schools as a classroom teacher and curriculum developer.  At Drexel, Dr. DeCarlo teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Teacher Education, Special Education, and Reading Specialist programs.  Her research interests include a number of areas in literacy studies—including information literacy, digital literacy, early literacy development, and reading comprehension.   Vera J. Lee is Associate Clinical Professor of Literacy Studies in the School of Education at Drexel University.  She teaches literacy courses for the prek-4 program, the Reading Specialist Certification program, and the ESL add-on Certificate program.   She has published on topics related to information literacy, critical literacy, teacher education, online learning, and family literacy.  Her current research focuses on fostering the home/school literacy and language practices of immigrant families, school and community engagement with multilingual families, and civic literacy with adult learners.   Stacey Greenwell is Instructional Design Librarian at the University of Kentucky. She has held a variety of roles there, including Associate Dean and Director of the Information Commons. In her current role, Dr. Greenwell creates online instructional materials to help undergraduates develop information-literacy skills. She teaches graduate classes in the School of Information Science and has co-authored textbooks on academic librarianship and management. Her current research interests are focused on designing effective online instructional materials.    Allen C. Grant is Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies at SUNY Potsdam.  He has also taught kindergarten, worked as a language instructor in Spain, consulted as an International Baccalaureate—-Primary Years Program expert, and spent many years in state service.  His research interests center around emerging technologies, urban school reform, leadership development, and anything dealing with K-12 virtual schooling. He is a frequent contributor as an expert witness and pundit for online learning.