Team

UMBC TEAM:

APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Dr. Linda Baker – baker@umbc.edu
Children’s literacy development; motivation for reading; parental influences on cognitive development and educational achievement. Dr. Baker will focus on designing the approach, goals and formative evaluation of the project in terms psychological issues of affect and behavior.

Dr. Susan Sonnenschein - sonnensc@umbc.edu
Language and literacy development in children from different sociocultural backgrounds, parents’ and teachers’ influences on children’s cognitive and educational development, parental beliefs and practices. Dr. Sonnenschein will focus on parent, community and cultural influence on young peoples’ affect and behavior, and be extension be involved in design and evaluation.

Colleen Sullivan – colleen3@umbc.edu
Colleen is pursuing her Masters Degree in Psychology at UMBC and helped analyze data from the Phase 1 pilot, as well as manage undergraduate monitors of the Fieldtrip site during the pilot.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Dr. Wayne Lutters – lutters@umbc.edu
Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), knowledge management (KM), online communities. Dr. Lutters will lead the design and execution of qualitative evaluation CoIP’s effect on target audience beliefs and attitudes related to Fieldtrip content. Also, he will help design and evaluate the team playing aspects of the massive multiplayer online game that is part of the Fieldtrip project.

David Gurzick, Ph.D. Student – gurzick1@umbc.edu
Research Interest: To explore the role of technology in the social lives of individuals and communities. Research Areas: Online expression of social identity, Computer-mediated communication (CMC), Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), Internet communication technology (ICT). David will be part of the formative and summative evaluations, theoretical and technical considerations for the development of Fieldtrip’s online community of interest/practice.

HISTORY
Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer, History Department Chair– lindenme@umbc.edu
U.S. social history with an emphasis on public policy, the history of childhood, and women and gender during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is also associated with the doctoral program in Public Policy and holds an affiliate appointment in Women’s Studies. Dr.Lindenmeyer will develop content that allows target audience to understand the history of the child in America as a way of understanding how and why current situations have evolved.

IMAGING RESEARCH CENTER
Lee Boot, Associate Director, IRC/ Creative Dir. of Fieldtrip – boot@umbc.edu (410.455-8444 ITE 101F)
Culture-Centered Informational Media (CCIM) with an emphasis on topics related to youth development. Media focus has been film/video and interactive web-based projects, now extending to massive multiplayer online games. Lee will oversee all aspects of the project and lead the development of design approaches to be used in the various media components.

INFOCULTURE:
Stacy Arnold, Executive Producer and COO – sarnold@focul.com
Identifying and communicating the meaning of information and communicating it to young people. Web marketing to older teen audiences. She runs the team that connects efforts such as Fieldtrip, to the wide array of constituents who have an interest in knowing about it.

Caroline Devereaux, Producer – carolinedevereaux@gmail.com
Works with Ms. Arnold on web marketing and is producer for media production. Her graphic design skills also bring an important element to a wide variety of media development tasks.

WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA:
Gin Ferrara, Executive Director – gin@wideanglemedia.org
Founder of Wide Angle. Filmmaking, administration, teaching. Gin has applied her filmmaking degree to being deeply involved in every aspect of helping young people learn the communication tools of their day to discover and describe who they are becoming. She has connected with a national network of youth media organizers which she will activate to work on the Fieldtrip project.

Susan Hayman, Program Director – susan@wideanglemedia.org
Susan’s education in Photography allows her to help young people explore themselves and their world. She will lead the effort to build a national network of teenage filmmakers whose work gets to the heart of their concerns about education and their future, in work for which we all have the highest artistic aspirations.

CONSULTANTS:
Dr. Jay McTighe, McTighe & Associates, Education Consultant & Author – jmctigh@aol.com
Jay is a leading authority on differentiating instruction to accommodate the full range of learning preferences.