Glen Bull





Introduction
Copying from his Vita:


 * Glen Bull is currently a professor of instructional technology in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in communication sciences from The Ohio State University, where he was a University Scholar. He is co-director of the Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education, serving as director for educational technology.

He previously served as director of Teacher-LINK, one of the nation's first regional K-12 Internet systems. He developed, with Tim Sigmon, one of the nation’s first statewide K-12 Internet systems, Virginia's Public Education Network (PEN). He served as co-chair of the Advisory Board on Teaching and Licensure (ABTEL) educational technology committee that developed Virginia’s Technology Standards for Instructional Personnel for Virginia.


 * He is a founding member and past president of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE). He is also a founding member and past president of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), a national professional association devoted to pre-service and in-service technology training for elementary and secondary teachers. In 2000 he became the second recipient of the Willis Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Technology and Teacher Education.

UVA Today (9/15/08). Retrieved 7/21/09: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6451.


 * September 15, 2008 — University of Virginia professor Glen Bull has never doubted the potential of digital technologies to facilitate learning – not since he collaborated with the Engineering School in the 1970s to build the Curry School of Education’s first computer.


 * Among his many efforts to promote effective uses of computers in schools, Bull, a Curry School professor of instructional technology, founded the National Technology Leadership Coalition, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary when it meets Sept. 18 and 19 in Washington.


 * The coalition brings together leaders from a dozen teacher-education professional associations, editors of eight technology-related journals and representatives from various government and educational agencies, educational technology centers and technology corporations.


 * "Dr. Bull created a bold collaboration and dialog among technology leaders and the content-based [teacher education] organizations that had not happened previously," said Lynne Schrum, professor of education at George Mason University and editor of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education. “He had a vision of the potential of educational technology long before most and has established infrastructure to support and guide the field toward that vision.”e Engineering School in the 1970s to build the Curry School of Education’s first computer.

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 * Q. What else do you want to say to today's students, teachers, parents, and other people?

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