If you see someone feverishly typing up a blog post during one of the sessions, or chasing down a presenter for an interview it could be one of these people. They have been grateful enough to volunteer their time, energy, and expertise to make the conference a more engaging experience for MACUL members and conference attendees.

2009 MACUL Conference Bloggers

Kevin Clark
Instructional Technology Consultant
Berrien RESA
Kevin’s Blog: REMC Ramblings

Kevin thinks you should be using Delicious, it’s an oldie but a goodie.  Then move on to Animoto or even Flowgram.  You can follow him on Twitter, but he doesn’t go very fast.

Steve Dickie
Science Teacher
Divine Child High School
Steve’s Blog: Teaching with Technology

Steve enjoys his daily fix of Digg and Twit

Patti Harju
Second Grade Teacher
St. Stephen School, Grand Rapids
Patti’s Blog: A Second Grade Teacher’s Blog
Classroom Blog: Mrs. Harju’s Classroom Blog

Patti tweets as Scout7 on Twitter and sometimes makes her way to Plurk as well. She loves bringing technology into her second grade classroom and sharing it with the world. You can peek in on her students by checking out the class wiki. Some of her current favorite Web 2.0 tools are Animoto, VoiceThread, Glogster, Audacity and Gcast.

Janine Lim
Instructional Technology Consultant
Berrien RESA
Janine’s Blog: Videoconferencing Out on a Lim

Janine’s completely outonalim on Twitter, when she’s not connecting and collaborating on CAPspace.

Andy Losik
Elementary Infotech Teacher
Blue Star and Bentheim Elementary Schools, Hamilton Schools
Andy’s Blog: Infotech with Mr. Losik
DEN Blog: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/andylosik

Andy shares his thoughts as mrlosik on Twitter. If you want to chat him up, tell him what you think of Kerpoof, his favorite website for elementary students.

Ben Rimes
Elementary Technology Teacher
Mattawan Consolidated Schools
Ben’s Blog: The Tech Savvy Educator

Ben tweets from time to time as techsavvyed on Twitter, but is usually checking up on MACUL Space or his students’ work on Wikispaces.

Pam Shoemaker
Technology Integration Coordinator
Walled Lake Schools
MACUL SIG-EE Communications Officer
Personal/Professional Blog: Yes Tech!
Photo of the Day Blog: Shoemap’s Random Photos
MI DEN Blog: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/michigan/

You can follow Pam’s thoughts on Plurk or Twitter under the username shoemap or give her a call via Skype at the same name. In the meantime, Pam highly recommends checking out VoiceThread, Wikispaces, Wordle, and Moodle for some of the best web 2.0 has to offer the educational world.

Cheryl Lykowski
5th Grade Teacher
Bedford Public Schools
Mi-DEN Leadership Council/Chairperson
Personal/Professional Blog: Web Explorer

You can follow Cheryl Plurk or Twitter under the username CLykowski. You can also contact her via Skype at the same name. Some of the best Web 2.0 tools that Cheryl uses in her classroom are Skype, Voice Thread, and Wikispaces. Her students also love using Kerpoof and Comic Life in the classroom.

Past MACUL Conference Bloggers

Joe Rommel
Fifth Grade Teacher
Brown Elementary
St. Joseph Public Schools
Joe’s Classroom Wiki: Room10

Jim Wenzloff
Intructional Technology Consultant
Macomb Intermediate School District
Jim’s Blog: A New Adventure

Jim is a Bloglines and Woot addict (QVC for techies)

Melissa White
Supervisor of Media and Technology
Ingham ISD / REMC 13

“I have always been lucky to work in districts where I could embrace technology and use it to its fullest. Whether I was a K-5 or 9-12 Media Specialist, I saw how technology changed the way kids did research. I have enjoyed so much the ease to how we retrieve information now on our phones, PDAs and/or computers. The Wikipedia though controversial is fascinating with the amount of information that can be found on a subject. (and the information changes and is added to daily!) Technology is a challenge, but makes learning so much more interesting.”

Melissa enjoys rocking out with iTunes