About the Authors
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Elizabeth Langran, Ph.D. is an assistant professor and director of the Educational Technology program at Fairfield University. She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia after nine years of teaching middle and high school social studies, French, and English as a Second Language. In addition to working with school leadership among technology resource teachers and school media specialists, she is engaged in collaboration and research with Fairfield University’s partner school, Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua.
elangran@mail.fairfield.edu
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Marsha Alibrandi, Ed.D. is an assistant professor of Secondary Education at Fairfield University. She earned an Ed. D. in 1997 from the University of Massachusetts. She taught at Cape Cod Tech for 15 years, 6 years in the University of Massachusetts’ Secondary Teacher Education Program, and 9 years at North Carolina State University. Her work implementing various technologies in schools has led her to collaborate with teachers in several states and inspired her subsequent publications. Her GIS in the Classroom: Using Geographic Information Systems in Social Studies and Environmental Science (2003) is followed by her co-edited volume entitled Digital Geography: Geospatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom (2008). |
malibrandi@mail.fairfield.edu
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