2010 Keynote & Featured Speakers

Sonny Magana

Sonny Managa In the course of a twenty year career in Public Education, Sonny Magaña has taught at every grade level from kindergarten through graduate school, served as a building Principal, District Administrator, and State Technology Projects Director. Sonny has co-authored numerous research projects focused on building sustainable models for integrating technology into curricula, instruction and assessment to meet students' diverse educational needs.

Sonny created and served as the Director of Washington's first CyberSchool, a highly successful Alternative Learning Program that continues to meet the needs of at-risk students in the Mukilteo School District.

The Milken Family Foundation honored Sonny by presenting him with the Milken National Educator Award in 1997 for his work in advancing 21st Century teaching and learning in Washington State. He was also awarded the Governor's Commendation for Distinguished Achievement in Education in 1998.

Serving as the Director of Education Strategy for Promethean, Inc., Sonny works with school, district, regional, state and national leaders to effectively integrate Promethean's ActivClassroom solution with powerful instructional and assessment strategies that improve student engagement and academic achievement.

Hall Davidson

Hall Davidson began teaching in 1971. He taught middle and high school English, mathematics, Spanish, and bilingual mathematics. He has been on the faculty of two colleges teaching technology for teacher credential candidates. He left the classroom to teach math on television in Los Angeles on an Emmy-winning program and spent 20 years at Los Angeles area PBS stations teaching, leading staff development, championing content creation by students and teachers, and ultimately producing television series on education, technology, parenting, and live theater. He frequently contributes articles to national education publications and co-authored TechWorks, an internationally distributed classroom technology kit and with a team founded Kitzu.org, a resource of free online kits to encourage project-based learning with media. He was elected to the board of Computer-Using Educators where he served for six years.

For a dozen years he coordinated the nation’s oldest student media festival, the California Student Media Festival and has reviewed over a thousand student projects. He has keynoted major technology conferences and consulted for professional organizations and corporations and been on advisory boards and committees for organizations as diverse as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the California School Library Association. He has two children who attended Los Angeles public schools, one of whom is now at the University of California. He was twice re-elected as site chairperson at the local elementary school where the categorical budget required his signature.

He joined Discovery Education in 2005 where he blogs, creates webinars, and works in educational partnerships as a director of the Discovery Educator Network. He has spoken about technology and education to audiences around the world.

Jamie McKenzie

Jamie McKenzie is the Editor of From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal, a Web-based "ZINE" published online since 1991. In this journal, he has argued for increased commitment to professional development along with networks to support student exploration and reasoning. He also publishes The Question Mark, a journal devoted to questions and questioning as well as No Child Left, a journal devoted to the repeal or drastic amendment of NCLB/Helter-Skelter.

Jamie has been a contributing editor to eSchool News and a guest columnist for the Classroom Connect newsletter. His articles have also appeared in Kappan, Educational Leadership, Electronic School and other educational periodicals.

Prior to devoting himself to full time speaking, writing and consulting in 1997, Jamie was the Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham (WA) Public Schools - a district of 18 schools and 10,000 students fully networked with 2000 pcs all tied to the Internet by 1994-95. He has now moved on to support technology and information literacy efforts in schools across North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

A graduate of Yale with an M.A. from Columbia and Ed.D. from Rutgers, Jamie has been a middle school teacher of English and social studies, an assistant principal, an elementary principal, assistant superintendent in Princeton (N.J.) and superintendent of two districts on the east coast of the U.S.. He also taught four-year-olds in Sunday school.

Jamie has published and spoken extensively on the introduction of new technologies to schools. In recent times he has paid particular attention to information technologies, questioning and powerful teaching, exploring how they might best transform classrooms and schools to support student centered, engaged learning.

Hilary Goldmann

Jamie McKenzie Hilary Goldmann is the Director of Government Affairs for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and has more than 20 years of experience working in the public policy and advocacy arena. She is responsible for developing and executing ISTE’s federal and state public policy agenda and mobilizing its grassroots efforts. Her “Voices Carry” column is a regular feature of ISTE’s Learning and Leading with Technology magazine and her “inside the beltway” presentations are popular features at ISTE Affiliate state conferences and other national conferences.

Before joining ISTE in July 2005, she led the Higher Education Information Technology (HEIT) Alliance, a coalition of 10 U.S. higher education and library associations that was established to promote the higher education and library community’s interests in federal information technology policy.

Tony Jongejan

Jamie McKenzie Tony Jongejan received his BA in Education/Mathematics and his MS in Mathematics from Western Washington State College. He earned his MS in Computer Science and his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Oregon. He taught mathematics for 15 years at the Everett High School starting the Computer Science curriculum there. He also served one year as the half-time Computer Coordinator.

Since 1983, he has worked in the Instructional Technology Program at Western Washington University as a full time faculty member teaching both undergraduate and graduate level classes. He has served as Department Chair and Program Director and manages the Miller Hall computer labs. In addition to this role, he has designed new courses and workshops for the department emphasizing classroom use of technology. He currently serves as the Department Chair for Educational Leadership and the Director of Instructional Technology program and manages the Woodring College of Education's Instructional Computer labs.

Donald G. Knezek

Jamie McKenzie Donald G. Knezek, CAE, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is a leader of innovation for transforming education with technology and recognized globally for his leadership in collaboration, planning and standards development related to technology in schools. Don holds degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Hawaii and the University of Texas at Austin. In his 28 years as a professional educator, Knezek worked in a variety of academic and administrative settings, including K–12 classroom, district office, university, regional service center, state department of education, and national and international technology organizations. He directed large multi-state projects in the Star Schools and Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology programs of the U.S. Department of Education.

Larry LeDoux

Jamie McKenzie Larry LeDoux began serving as the Alaska Commissioner of the Department of Education and Early Development in 2008. LeDoux previously was superintendent of the Kodiak Island Borough School District, where he held numerous administrative posts, including overseeing grants, strategic planning, and educational technology.

In Kodiak, LeDoux was actively engaged in designing technology-based distance education programs, developing alternative education options for city and rural high school students, and implementing culturally relevant academic and vocational programs.

Fran Ulmer

Jamie McKenzie Fran Ulmer is the Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, bringing to this position 30 years of experience of public policy in Alaska. In the early 1980s, Fran was the Mayor of Juneau, then a member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1986-1994) and in 1994, Fran became the first female Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. As Lieutenant Governor, she became a nationally recognized leader in making government more efficient and accessible through telecommunications.

Fran has participated in numerous panels, task forces, commissions and forums as a speaker, moderator and panelist to address the intersection of science, economics, politics and policy. Fran currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Parks Conservation Association, the Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Alaska Nature Conservancy Board. Fran has a BA in political science and economics and a Law Degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Linda Chamberlain

Dr. Linda Chamberlain, an epidemiologist specializing in the effects of violence on women and children and brain development, is the founding director of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project. An internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr. Chamberlain is known for her ability to translate science into practical information with diverse audiences. Her passionate belief that everyone can make a difference conveys a message of hope and opportunity. Dr. Chamberlain holds faculty appointments at the University of Alaska and Johns Hopkins University. She earned her public health degree from Yale School of Medicine and her doctorate from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Chamberlain has published extensively and is editor for the e-journal, Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice.

Living on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her husband and dog team, she has developed a highly innovative lecture series on leadership and teamwork called “Lessons from the Trail” and teaches a graduate course on public health and leadership.

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