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Speakers and Presenters (alphabetical, partial listing)
   
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Michael Alewine
Michael Alewine is Outreach/Distance Education Librarian in the UNC Pembroke Mary Livermore Library.
Michael Alewine
 
   
Rick Allen
Rick Allen is co-founder of Nautilus Productions. He is a broadcast video producer and videographer who has been diving the oceans of the world and shooting video since 1983. His work has appeared on ABC, A&E, BBC, CBS, Discovery and more. Allen is an avid wreck diver and shark lover who can be found most weekends diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Rick Allen
 
 
Larry Arnold Photo
Dr. Larry Arnold is Co-Founder of the Digital Academy. He is a jazz performer and is a Professor of Music at UNCP. Larry also teaches for the Media Integration Studies project.
Larry Arnold
 
   
Dr. Carmen Calabrese

Dr. Carmen Calabrese is an executive, professor, and academic administrator, with substantial domestic and international experience. He is Executive Director of the “Thomas Family Center for Entrepreneurship,” and Associate Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Carmen Calabrese
 
   
Dena Evans
Dena B. Evans RN, BSN, MPH is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing on the UNC Pembroke Campus.
Dena B. Evans
 
   
Ed Damman
Dr. Ed Damman is an instructional designer for the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. His primary responsibility is to assist faculty with the incorporation of technology and sound pedagogy into face-to-face and online classes.
Ed Damman
 
 
Dr. Richard Gay, Chair of the UNCP Art Department

Dr. Richard Gay is Interim Chair and Assistant Professor in the Art Department at UNC Pembroke. He teaches Art History and uses ARTstor in his classes. His research interests include fifteenth-century French and Flemish illuminated manuscripts.

Richard Gay
 
   
Meki
Meki J. Graham RN, MSN is Assistant Professor of Nursing on the
Southeastern Regional Medical Center Campus.
Meki J. Graham
 
     
Anthony Holdereid
Anthony C. Holderied is the Instructional Services/Reference Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke's Mary Livermore Library. Anthony has provided instructional sessions on library resources and information literacy to faculty and students of UNCP since May 2006. He is currently studying instructional design and technology through Appalachian State's Educational Media graduate program.
Anthony Holderied
   
     
George Johnson photo
George Johnson is Co-founder of the Digital Academy. He teaches in the UNCP Department of Mass Communications and for the Media Integration Studies project. George is the television engineer for WNCP-TV.
George Johnson
   
     
Beverly King, Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Dr. Beverly R. King is Assistant Vice Chancellor of Institutional Effectiveness at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology at Purdue University and was an Associate Professor in the Psychology department at UNCP from 2003 until 2007 when she joined the IE office. She holds Association of Institutional Research certificates in both The Practice of Institutional Research, and Applied Statistics for Institutional Research, Planning, and Management.
Beverly R. King
   
     
John Antoine Labadie, Digital Academy Director

Dr. John Antoine Labadie is Director and Co-founder of the Digital Academy. He is a Professor in the UNCP Art Department in the Digital Arts area and teaches for the Media Integration Studies project. You can find his artwork at SteppingstoneArts.com.

 

John Antoine Labadie
   
     
Margie Labadie
Digital Academy Coordinator, Margie Labadie, organizes the Annual Digital Content Consortium and all Digital Academy events throughout the academic year. She is a fine artist and teaches full time in the UNCP Art Department in the Digital Arts area. You can find her art work at SteppingstoneArts.com.
Margie Labadie
   
   
Mark Mason of Computer Tree
Marc Mason was president of a textile chemical company for 11 years before following his passion and establishing Action Arts Video Production in 1999.  He began by producing instructional videos and shooting local theater, he now produces all ranges of, creative, corporate, and commercial videos. He also teaches Videography and Editing in classroom settings and as a consultant, for Computer Tree in Winston-Salem, NC. 
Marc Mason
 
   
Dr. Ramin Maysami
Dr. Ramin Maysami is Professor and Chair of Economics, Finance, and Decision Sciences in the UNC Pembroke School of Business.
Ramin Maysami
 
   
 	Nathan Phillippi, Geography Lecturer
Nathan Phillippi is a lecturer in Geography in the Department of Geology and Geography at UNC Pembroke. Before teaching at UNCP, he taught Geography at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. Previously he was a cartographer for the North Carolina based mapping agency Map Supply.
Nathan Phillippi
   
     
Rosemarie Pilarczyk RN, MSN, MSEd, CDE Assistant Professor
Rosemarie Pilarczyk RN, MSN, MSEd, CDE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing at UNC Pembroke.
Rosemarie Pilarczyk
   
     
Professor Stephen Robison, UNCP Art Department
Stephen Robison is Assistant Professor of Art in Ceramics in the UNC Pembroke Art Department.
Stephen Robison
   
     
Carla Rokes
Carla Rokes is a mixed media artist whose work involves figurative abstraction.She is an Assistant Professor in the UNCP Art Department and Director of the UNCP A.D. Gallery. Carla teaches foundation level courses in design and drawing.
Carla Rokes
   
     
John Santa
John Santa is the owner of "The Studio" in Chapel Hill, NC.
He is returning for his 7th year as a presenter at the
Digital Content Consortium.

Santa is the author of "Bluegrass is My Second Language: A Year in the Life of an Accidental Bluegrass Musician." Look for copies at the conference!
John Santa
   
     
Dr. Sara Simmons

Dr. Sara C. Simmons
is Acting Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Joining the faculty in 1996, Dr. Simmons has taught 20+ different undergraduate and graduate courses. She received the University’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005. Her areas of research interest include teacher leadership, differentiated instruction, and online pedagogy.
Sara Simmons
   
     
Debbie Thompson, School of Education
Dr. Debbie Thompson is the Digital Content Consortium's UNCP School of Education coordinator and this year presents "Using the Quality Matters Rubric to Design Online Classes."
Debbie Thompson
   
     
William Wendt
William Wendt

William Wendt is an adjunct instructor in economics and statistics at UNC Pembroke and Randolph Community College He taught at The American University, Johns Hopkins, Loyola College, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Mr. Wendt was Controller for The Rouse Company, a division manager for The Ryland Group, and a corporate Senior Vice President in commercial real estate investment for Prudential and Travelers. See his work in digital teaching at the following web site: http://web.me.com/wwendt/wwendthomepage/Welcome.html
     
     
Robert Wolf is the Serials/Digital Operations Coordinator/Web Information Coordinator at the Mary Livermore Library.  Robert Wolf is the Serials/Digital Operations Coordinator/Web Information Coordinator at the Mary Livermore Library.  Robert Wolf is the Serials/Digital Operations Coordinator/Web Information Coordinator at the Mary Livermore Library.
Robert Wolf is the Serials/Digital Operations Coordinator/Web Information Coordinator at the Mary Livermore Library.
Robert Wolf
   
     
     
     
     
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