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Kate Ellis is a Learning Technologies Consultant at the Teaching and Learning Technologies Center at Indiana University Bloomington.

Kate Ellis is a Learning Technologies Consultant at the Teaching and Learning Technologies Center at Indiana University Bloomington. She works with faculty in incorporating instructional technology into their courses as well as developing and implementing programing initiatives. She is an active member of the international Sakai open-source community and supports Oncourse CL, the IU implementation of Sakai. Her areas of interest include blended learning environments, podcasting for instruction, user-centered web design and visual literacy.




Kate received a Master of Fine Arts in graphic design and new media from the School of Fine Arts, Indiana University Bloomington in 2002 (terminal degree), and a BFA in Fine Arts from IUB in 1977. She has worked as the Webmaster for a newspaper in the Knight Ridder network, Assistant Curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and co-director of Artlink Artspace. She has taught classes and workshops at Artlink and the Bloomington John Waldron Art Center. As a graduate student at IUB, she received the Glaubinger Fellowship and did graphic design and web development for the Indiana University Art Museum.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences program at Indiana University.

The overarching theme in my program of research is an examination of how people learn through activity. Learning through activity involves interacting with other people, physical objects, and ideas. Physical objects can range from actual flowers and drawings that label their parts to computer simulations. Similarly, ideas include individual beliefs and preferences, the rules that groups such as classrooms follow, and historically developed concepts that span generations. My research examines how individuals coordinate their actions and ideas within these complex settings, and how this can lead to learning.

A major focus of my work has been examining how young students (5-7 years old) create representations while learning about complex science concepts.

To unpack the process through which individual students engage in and learn through activity, my work is driven by empirical studies that examine:

* The process through which students create and use material representational tools such as drawings, graphs, and computer simulations when they are learning new concepts.
* The reciprocal way in which individual students contribute their own ideas to complex activity systems and appropriate knowledge from those systems.
* The design of new activities and computational tools to support learning while also revealing theoretical and practical insights into how learning ocurrs.

1039 E. Tenth Street

Business Communication

Department of Business Law and Ethics
1309 E. Tenth Street, Suite 233

Eve Brown joined the faculty of the Kelley School of Business in 2007. She teaches in the department of Business Law & Ethics. Courses taught include: Legal Environment of Business, Legal Research and Writing, Nonprofit Law, Law and the Arts, and Shakespeare and the Law. Prior to teaching, Eve was an attorney with the San Diego office of Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP.

1309 East Tenth Street

Karen Banks is a senior lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Karen Banks is a senior lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Ms. Banks has taught at the university level for over 10 years. Previously, she owned her own consulting business and has worked at multiple corporations.

History Department, Indiana University
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue

I am a mid-career, associate professor of History at Indiana University, where I have taught for twenty years, after a three-year stint at Southwest Texas State University. I have been involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning for the past eight years and I also teach in our graduate pedagogy program.

I am an associate professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializing in the history of medieval Europe. My disciplinary research considers medieval historical writing. I have published a monograph on historical writing in Normandy in the central Middle Ages and a translation of the History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, an early thirteenth-century dynastic history from the Artois. I am currently working on an edition, translation, and study of the Chronicon Andrense, from the same region of France. My involvement with SoTL began with a course portfolio for the Peer Review of Teaching project. I have been a fellow of the Freshman Learning Project, which produced the material for a joint article in Decoding the Disciplines: helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking (New Directions in Teaching and Learning, Summer 2004), written with David Pace and Valerie Grim. With Vicky Gunn, I wrote “Doing SotL: A Cross Atlantic Dialogue Reflecting upon the Nature of Teaching and Learning in Medieval Studies,” which has appeared in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. I am currently a principal investigator (with Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, and David Pace) in the Indiana University History Department Study of Student Learning in History. We have recently published an article in the Journal of American History, "The History Learning Project: A Department "Decodes" its Students."

107 South Indiana Avenue

Kristen Bellisario received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and currently is a part-time lecturer of Music in Multimedia at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has received an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist award, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, is the founder of the non-profit organization Southern Indiana Youth Symphony, and maintains a private studio of young musicians.

1021 E Third street

Alwiya Omar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. She teaches Kiswahili and co-ordinates the teaching of other African languages in the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies program. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, web-based language instruction, and study abroad language programs. Dr. Omar is from Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Alwiya S. Omar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University,
Bloomington. She teaches Kiswahili and co-ordinates the teaching of other African languages in the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies program. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, web-based language instruction, and study abroad language programs. Her recent publications include a co-authored advanced Kiswahili text book Tuwasilianae kwa Kiswahili ‘Let’s Communicate in Kiswahili’ with L. Rushubirwa, National African Language Resource Center, 2007; and two articles on Kiswahili Pragmatics: “Kiswahili requests: Performance of Native Speakers and learners” in K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Felix-Brasdefer, A. Omar (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Hawaii Press, 2006; and “Kanga Captions: Social and Political Communication with Application to Kiswahili Language Teaching and Learning,” in L. Moshi and A. Ojo (Eds.), Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa, Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2009. She has also participated in several web based resources for Kiswahili language teaching and learning. Some of these resources can be found at:
http://www.africa.uga.edu/Kiswahili/doe/index.html and
http://www.indiana.edu/~afritalk/ (to access the different language sites on this project email aomar@indiana.edu for username and password)