Bios

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, a 17-year educator, currently serves as an adjunct faculty member teaching graduate and undergraduate preservice teachers at The College of William and Mary (Va) where she is also completing her doctorate in educational planning, policy and leadership. Sheryl is a published author and a regular presenter at local, state, and national conferences speaking on many topics including 21st Century learning initiatives. Her current research interests include: teacher leadership, virtual learning communities, electronic mentorship, digital divide issues, and 21st Century educational reform.

Will Richardson is an internationally respected author, speaker and blogger whose focus is helping educators realize the potential of Web 2.0 technologies in their own personal and professional practice and in their classrooms. He is the author of the best selling Blogs, Wikis Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms from Corwin Press and spent 22 years as a public school educator. An adjunct instructor at Seton Hall University (NJ), Will is a national advisory board member for the George Lucas Education Foundation, and is the Chief Learning Officer at Connective Learning, LLC.