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Sara Armstrong Director of Content, George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). Dr. Sara Armstrong, Director of Content for The George Lucas Educational Foundation, has been an educator for 25 years. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Armstrong was a classroom teacher for 17 years, and participated in her first telecommunications project in 1980. Through that experience, Dr. Armstrong was impressed with two major ideas: the fact that her students could be in meaningful communication with students they would never have had the chance to meet in person, and that this kind of interchange could alter how students learn and participate in classroom work. Dr. Armstrong’s doctoral work in the philosophy of education allowed her time to explore current ideas of educational practice and technology integration into curricula. Her dissertation, Metaphors of Learning and Teaching, has provided the basis of one area of her consulting work. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences, including CUE (Computer-Using Educators), NECC (National Education Computing Conference), Tel*Ed, NCCE (Northwest Conference for Computer-using Educators), and ASTE (Alaska Society for Technology in Education).		Learn more from Sara Armstong Tool / Concept you will learn from her presentation at Nexus: Real and virtual world resources for teaching EQ. Her Nexus 2000 schedule and presentation description
She has also worked extensively in creating staff development efforts for school districts, county, regional, and statewide groups. Her topics include multiple intelligences and educational technology; information literacy in the age of communications; teaching, technology and storytelling; early literacy and technological resources; parents, public libraries, and Internet resources; developing rubrics for evaluating online resources; ThinkQuest resources as models for staff development and instruction; and evaluation and assessment as guiding practices. Dr. Armstrong is the author of a number of publications, including Telecommunications in the Classroom (ISTE, 1995), Internet for Kids (contributing author, Sybex, 1995), A Pocket Tour of Kidstuff on the Internet (Sybex, 1996), The Internet for Your Kids (co-author, Sybex, 1996), and NetSavvy: Information Literacy in the Communications Age (co-author, The NetSavvy Group, 1998). Dr. Armstrong recently completed her third elected term on the Board of Directors of CUE (Computer-Using Educators), where she served as President for two years. She also serves on the Bay Area Storytelling Festival Committee, and the California Indian Storytelling Association, and the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network. She is a member of a number of professional organizations, including ISTE, ASCD, Phi Delta Kappa, NCTE, CATE, IRA, CRA, and NSTA. Dr. Armstrong is an Associate of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development. The George Lucas Educational Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by the filmmaker in 1991. It recently released Learn & Live TM, a documentary film hosted by Robin Williams and a 300-page companion resource book highlighting models of effective educational programs throughout the country. Further information is available on the Internet at www.glef.org.