MAT Faculty

Caleb Clark - Program Director

Caleb is an instructor and program director and in the Teaching with Technology Program. He is also the academic technologist for the Graduate School. He has been an Ed Tech Web geek since 1994. His focus is the creation and management of humane Web media, specifically social networking, video, and photography for higher education.

Caleb has been involved in Web development and social networking since the dot.com boom in California’s Bay Area. He has worked as a Webmaster in advertising, an online community manager for Netscape, an instructional designer for Maxis and Blip.tv, and a consultant and manager for Antioch New England Graduate School, High Tech High School, Keene State College, and World Learning. Caleb regularly publishes articles, tutorials and Web 2.0 media.

Caleb has an MPS degree from the Interactive Technology Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. At ITP he focused on new formats of online documentary Web video, physical computing and sustainability, and worked on grants teaching video blogging to non-profits in New Orleans and environmental documentation in Panama. He has an MA in educational technology from San Diego State University where he focused on usability and online community. Caleb’s BA is in journalism and broadcasting from Arizona State University.

Ronda Berntsen

Ronda Berntsen is owner of Berntsen Consulting, an organizational development consulting company, where she serves as a business process consultant, professional trainer and facilitator. She has successfully managed the implementation of more than 100 quality improvement initiatives and coached, mentored, and trained more than 600 executives, managers and supervisors. Ronda has over twenty-five years of professional experience working in a variety of industries including health care, higher education, bio-tech manufacturing, retail, non-profits and government agencies. Areas of expertise include leadership coaching and development, quality improvement, group facilitation and organizational change. Ronda’s work is customized and focused on alignment, outcomes and sustainability.

Ronda holds an MS in management from Antioch New England Graduate School and a BS in management of health sciences. She has also studied at the Organizational Development Academy affiliated with Peak Development and Villanova University.

Lisa Brooks

Lisa is a 28-year veteran public school art and technology teacher who fell in love with technology when it first slipped into her art room in the 1980s. She currently teaches art and technology courses for Virtual High School and Community College of VT online, as well as face-to-face courses for Bennington College’s MATSL (second language) program. She’s a working artist and Web designer.

She holds a BA is from the University of Montana in art and education and an MAT from Marlboro College Graduate School.

Joanne Cannon

Joanne (Jo) Cannon has been working in the field of educational technology for over 20 years. She earned her M.Ed in instructional technology from UMASS Amherst and is currently assistant director of educational technology at Smith College. Over the years she has worked with colleagues in a variety of fields to create educational multimedia applications, many of which are still in use. She has taught programming, digital media and education courses at many levels.

Julie DeCesare

While studying at UMASS Amherst, Julie developed an interest in film studies, production and audiovisual collections and graduated with a BA in comparative literature and a concentration in film studies. Julie worked at Brown University Media Services as their technical coordinator while completing her master’s in library and information studies at Simmons College. After finishing her MLIS, Julie became digital media/film studies reference librarian at Boston College. At BC, she works closely with instructional designers to bring multimedia content into faculty course sites and to create interesting Web deliverables and physical audiovisual collections for the BC community. Recently, Julie and her husband started 8th Day Productions, a videography company in Newton, MA.

Julie teaches Digital Research Technologies, where she is able to bring many of her interests together, Web video, Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning, the evolution of online library collections, and open source publication. Her goal is to teach MAT students how to be effective online researchers, how to evaluate online resources, and also to provide a set of free or open source web resources.

Charles Papirmeister

Chuck recently moved from Thetford, Vermont to the Washington, DC area to work for Senator Patrick Leahy as the research librarian for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. His prior experience includes working as an attorney, teaching legal research at the Vermont Law School, and teaching computer applications courses at the high school level in Orford, New Hampshire. His experience as an attorney and a teacher provides the basis for his teaching style which he describes as devising collaborative, student-centered, experiential exercises. During the last two years he has integrated classes in Second Life into his courses at MCGS.

Chuck received his JD from the University of Baltimore School of Law and a BA in psychology from the University of Maryland.

Jane Wilde

Jane Wilde is a self-proclaimed computer geek. She thoroughly enjoys technology and loves to teach people how to use it. Having the rare combination of technical skills and the ability to speak English (rather than computer-ese), she can show you how to engage your students and enrich your curriculum with computers, the internet, and multimedia materials. Having begun her teaching career in special education, Jane enjoys working with even the most computer challenged student.

A twenty-five year veteran educator, Jane has taught at every grade level from kindergarten to graduate school. She is the owner of two consulting businesses. Through Absolute Computing Solutions, she offers teacher training and technology support to K–12 schools. Through Absolutely Virtual, Jane trains and consults on the use of virtual environments for education and business. She is a doctoral student at the University at Albany in the field of instructional technology.

Jane is delighted to offer a course for educators within the virtual world Second Life. In this course you will meet ‘virtual educators,’ read the ‘virtual research,’ and explore, create and evaluate the instructional potential of virtual classrooms in your teaching.

If you are already a resident of Second Life, don’t hesitate to drop Jane’s avatar, Esme Qunhua, an IM.

Our Offerings

  1. A 30-credit Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology (MAT)
  2. A 4-course Certificate in Instructional Technology
  3. Vermont State Educational Technology Specialist (ETS #42) Endorsement Courses.
  4. Professional development through our Continuing Education Program (CEP).

If you have any questions, please come visit us, email or call Joe Heslin in admissions (888) 258-5665 x209, or the program director, Caleb Clark.

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    1. Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology
      1. Courses
      2. Faculty
      3. Alumni Work
      4. ETS Endorsement
      5. What's Ed Tech?
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