Terry Smith
Teacher Education Professor; Project-based classroom teacher
Western Illinois University, Asst. Professor of education; Also Online edtech instructor, Antioch U.; Quest Atlantis researcher with Indiana University; Elementary teacher for 15 years. Came to teaching from technical writing in operating systems & networks. Project manager for Monster Project (http://www.smithclass.org/proj/Monsters/index.htm) and for Kidlink Landmark global project (http://tinyurl.com/yjxfrbr). Teach online conversational English classes to high school students in Taipei, Taiwan.
Class web: www.smithclass.org -- classblog: www.smithbloggers.org
Areas of interest:
situated cognition, PBL, virtual worlds/game-based learning, social studies
Organizations/Affiliations:
ISTE, AERA, ACM, NSTA, SITE
