Contributors to April AE-Extra
[Issue 2/2007]

Lynne Fukuda, an instructor of Anthropology at Windward Community College, a part-time instructor of Biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and an instructor at Central Texas College, based in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks.  Ms Fukuda is a regular contributor to this journal in her monthly column, “The View from Here.”  Her previous column, "Fukuda's Chalkboard," can be found in the January-August 2002 editions of this journal, as well as various other writings in the 2001 editions.

Susan Jones, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), College of Education.  She was Co-Principal Investigator of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant.  She has worked with a major multimedia software development company.  Her primary research interest is effective technology integration in the teaching and learning process.  Currently, Dr. Jones is writing her first technology text.

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada. He is a poet, novelist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher. His writing has appeared over two thousand times in 18 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow, the USA's Paul Bagdon, and England's D. M. Thomas. He edits a literary journal, CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets. He also edits The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters.

Anthony N. Ezeife, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. With a long-running research focus on innovative practices and applications in mathematics, science, and technology education, Dr. Ezeife has supervised scores of graduate students, and published extensively in this globally important area.

Helda Francis, Systems Analyst, was formerly a part-time instructor at the Continuing Education Department, St. Clair College, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. A much-traveled researcher who has promoted mathematics and technology education in various parts of the world including India and Canada, Ms. Francis currently works in the industrial sector in Michigan, USA.

Salome C. Nnoromele, PhD, is a professor in the Department of English and Theatre and the Interim Director of African/African-American Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She taught her first online course in Fall 2001. Since then, she has been committed to teaching online as well as exploring the pedagogy of online teaching in relationship to teaching in the real classroom. Her presentations and publications on the pedagogy of online teaching include several essays in It Works For Me Online (Hal Blythe & Sweet), “Hanging by a Slender Thread?: The Possibilities and Perils of Online Teaching” (with Robinson & Dean) at the CPE Conference on Innovations in Teaching and Learning: Meeting 21st Century Challenges, and “Service-learning in the Online Classroom” appearing in International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 3.1 (Spring 2006).

Noel Sloboda is an instructor of English at Penn State York.  He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.  His work on film versions of Hamlet was published in Studies in the Humanities.  Sloboda has contributed to Literary Contexts, the Encyclopedia of American Literature, and the Student’s Companion to American Literary Characters.  His poetry has been featured, or is forthcoming, in FRiGG, Waterways, Ghoti, and Tipton Poetry Journal.  Recently, Sloboda served as dramaturge for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival’s King Lear.

S. Purcell Woodard, Ph.D., is the director of the Early Identification Program for Graduate and Professional Studies and the associate director of the Ronald E. McNair Program at the University of Washington.  Both programs serve undergraduates who are low income, underrepresented, and/or first-generation college; both programs prepare these students to pursue and excel in post-baccalaureate education.  Steve’s poetry has appeared earlier in this and other journals, including Multicultural Education, Taboo, and the Journal of Critical Inquiry into Curriculum and Instruction, as well as in the book, Becoming multicultural educators:  Personal journey toward professional agency.