I have served on the Curry School Educational Technology committee since its inception in the late 1970s. This committee meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month, and is open to any faculty member or student who wishes to participate. Jim Cooper, immediate past dean of the Curry School, attributes much of the school's success in educational technologies to the advice and direction of the faculty on this committee who have been working together for nearly two decades.
I served on the University Academic Computing Committee throughout the 1980s, and served as its chair in the early 1990s. I was a member of the original Grounds-Wide Information Server (GWIS) committee. (GWIS is a variant on "Campus-Wide Information Server"). This committee was subsequently reconstituted with a broader charge as the Computer-Facilitated Communication (CFC) committee, and currently is incarnated as the Networked-Based Information Systems (NBIS) committee. I have continued to serve on this committee throughout its incarnations. This year I also served as chair of the ITC Classroom Tools subcommittee, which reports to the Instructional Technology committee (chaired by Mable Kinzie.)
I was a founding member and served as president of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE), an affiliate of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). [In a previous career, I had also served as president of the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia (SHAV).] During this time, I served as chair of VSTE and SHAV annual conferences.
I served on the state's first Steering Committee for a Six-Year Plan for Technology in Elementary/Secondary Education, charged with developing recommendations to the State Board of Education regarding K-12 education in Virginia, and subsequently served on the first biennium of the second state six-year educational technology planning committee. I served as the SCHEV representative on the state department of education Virginia Educational Technology Advisory Committee (VETAC). I also served as chair of a Virginia Department of Education Educational Technology Task Force that examined educational technology in pre-service teacher education programs in Virginia.
I served as director of a regional educational technology network, Teacher-LINK. As president of VSTE, I organized a planning conference with representatives from K-12 schools, the Virginia Department of Education, and higher education in which plans for one of the nation's first statewide K-12 education network were proposed and agreed upon.
More recently I served as co-chair of a state committee that developed educational technology standards for pre-service and in-service teachers, and am currently involved in several projects that address design of effective methods of implementing these standards.
I served as chair of the ASHA Educational Technology Committee, and chaired the ASHF Third Annual Speech and Hearing Conference (Orlando, 1986). I served as president of Computer Users in Speech and Hearing (CUSH), and served on the editorial board of the CUSH journal.
Throughout the 1980s I was involved in exploration of constructivist applications of the educational computing language Logo, and served as a member of the editorial board and columnist for the Logo Exchange journal (an ISTE publication).
I was a founding member of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) and served as chair of its telecommunications committee. I also served as editor of the Telecommunications section of the Technology and Teacher Education annual, and currently am an associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Telecommunications.
In 1993 I received the SITE award for the outstanding achievement in technology and teacher education of that year for design of a technology and teacher education information server. I am currently serving as SITE president.