Karen Kliegman is the  library media/educational technology specialist and webmaster at Searingtown School, a K-5 elementary school in New York. She is also an adjunct professor at Long Island University in their educational technology graduate program. , and a professional development instructor, focusing on educational technology professional development courses, in her school district’s Teacher Center. 

Her work on the web has received recognition from Education World, Blue Web’N, The International Association of Webmasters and Designers, SeaWorld, techLEARNING, Inspiration, Teacher's Network, ISTE, and most recently from Cablevision's Power to Learn for her project, Tell Me A Story.

Other Highlights:

• Her project, Walls That Talk, won first place in 2004 in the ISTE SIGtel Online Shared Learning competition.
• 2004 finalist by Global Schoolnet, as an exemplary educator who has made important contributions to the field of online telecollaboration.
• In October of 2005, awarded Computer Logic Group's Innovative Educators Grant for her project, Circle of Rights.
• By way of a 2005 grant awarded by Teaching Tolerance, she co-edited the book, Child Justice: Reflections in Poetry and Paint
• Surfaquarium Top Online Educator in 2006
• Childbridge for Children's Rights, selected as a finalist in the 2007 Global Junior Challenge.

Karen will be presenting on Web 2.0 at the 2008 ASSET Educational Technology Conference in Huntington, New York, in March.

Connect with Karen by visiting her blog, Wired Librarian, or Classroom 2.0, Library 2.0, or at Twitter!

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." ,..Mark Van Doren