About the Facilitators

Crawford Kilian

Crawford was born in New York City in 1941, and  grew up in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Returned to NYC for college (Columbia '62), did two years in the US Army at Fort Ord, worked as apprentice tech writer in Berkeley. Moved to Canada with my wife Alice in 1967, stumbled into teaching and found I loved it. At Capilano College since it opened in 1968. Taught in China, 1983-84. Have written a lot of books and articles; current projects include two novels, a textbook revision, and a pending pitch to CBC for a radio drama series. He runs a number of class blogs, as well as his personal site, Writing for the Web.

 

Laura Trippi

Laura Trippi teaches cultural studies and researches "hacker crafts" -- web coding with an emphasis on open source -- at SFU's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. She concentrates (as best she can) on networked and emergent narrative, complex systems theory, diagrammatic knowledge, and social models emerging from the fields of open source software ("weeds of change"). In her former life, in New York City, she was a curator of contemporary art and, before that, studied literary theory. Her participation here figures as Reports from the Lines of Electronic Culture, as she leads 40 4th-year students from a shared collaborative web workspace onto weblogs. Visit her at net.narrative environments.

 

June Lester

 June Lester is a mathematician turned math educator, and works at SFU Surrey designing and delivering online and face-to-face components for math courses. While supporting the idea of blogging in many contexts, she's become somewhat skeptical about the current hype around blogging in education, and intends to play somewhat of a devil's advocate role in the discussions.

  

Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb is a Project Coordinator for the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia, working with a range of educational multimedia initiatives on campus, in addition to annoying peers with frequent and ill-informed rants on the implications of social software. He previously enjoyed stints with the now-deceased Technical University of British Columbia (RIP TechBC), and the Monterrey Tech University system in Mexico.

Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie is an educational technology researcher and advanced applications analyst. He reviews course management sites for the Edutools.info project. His blog, EdTechPost, provides daily coverage on  technologies for learning, thinking and collaborating.