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Monday, March 26
Opening General Session, 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Tim Magner
Director, Office of Education Technology
U.S. Department of Education
Biography
The US Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, named Timothy J. Magner director of the Department's Office of Educational Technology on Feb. 1, 2006. He returns to the Department with over 15 years of work experience with educational technology in schools, the arts and the private sector.
The Office of Educational Technology is responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of ED's educational technology policies. Its main goal is to maximize technology's contribution to improving education through developing a coherent national educational technology policy and implementing that policy in support of the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
John Couch
Vice President of Education
Apple Computer, Inc.
Biography
John Couch is Apple’s vice president of Education and is responsible for driving Apple’s sales and marketing strategy in the education market. He has over thirty years experience as a computer scientist, executive and advocate for technology in education. During his current tenure at Apple, John has led an Education division that has steadily grown units, revenue and market share every year since his return, eclipsing many sales milestones that have stood for nearly a decade.
Directly prior to his current position at Apple, Couch was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DoubleTwist Inc, a leading provider of genomic information and bioinformatics analysis technologies which made headlines as the first company to provide a comprehensive annotation of the human genome. The year before joining DoubleTwist, he was Executive in Residence for Mayfield Fund, where he provided strategic planning, management and technology advice to high technology companies.
Couch began his professional career in 1972 as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard, and held various software management positions at Hewlett-Packard.
In 1978 he joined Apple as Director of New Products reporting to Steve Jobs. He was Apple’s first Vice President of Software and Vice President/General Manager for the Lisa division, Apple’s first GUI Computer.
Tuesday, March 27
General Session, 9:15 - 10:30 a.m.
John Garamendi
Lt. Governor
State of California
Biography
On January 8, 2007, John Garamendi became the 46th Lieutenant Governor of California. He brings to the office 32 years of public service. During his 14 years as a State Senator and two years in the Assembly, Garamendi chaired the Joint Committee on Science and Technology, the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, and served as the Senate Majority Leader.
In 1991, Garamendi became California’s first elected Insurance Commissioner.
In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed Garamendi as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the number two position in the Department. Reelected California’s Insurance Commissioner in 2002, he set about rebuilding the Department into the best consumer protection agency in the nation.
Garamendi is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he was an all-conference and academic All American football player, and a champion wrestler. Prior to receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he and his wife, Patti, were Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia.
Special Presentation:
THREE DECADES LATER: What We Do Well and What We Can Do Better
Jeanne Hayes
President
The Hayes Connection
Founder
Quality Education Data |
Kenneth C. Green
Founding Director
The Campus Computing Project
Visiting Scholar
Claremont Graduate University. |
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Biography:
Jeanne Hayes founded Quality Education Data, (QED) in 1981. Her vision was to create the highest-quality education database possible. To grow the business, she established a market research division in the early '90s and later expanded the database through QED's National Registry of Teachers. After she facilitated the sale of QED to Scholastic Inc. in 1999, she served as VP of Marketing Development at Scholastic until 2004.
In 2005, Jeanne Hayes established The Hayes Connection to consult for both established and start-up education market companies. Hayes' 30 years of strategic insights gained from building a business, creating databases, analyzing market trends and helping clients market to schools help her connect her clients to the education market.
A former educator and debate coach, Hayes has testified before congress and speaks at conferences nationwide about instructional technology and other education issues. |
Biography:
Kenneth Green is the founding director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American colleges and universities. The project is widely cited by both campus officials and corporate executives as the definitive source for information about information technology issues affecting American higher education. The Campus Computing Project is also the model for affiliated research projects underway in other counties, including Brazil, Canada, and China.
Green is the author/co-author or editor of a dozen books and published research reports and more than three dozen articles that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications. His work on higher education, eLearning, information technology, and labor market issues has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other print and broadcast media. Now in its sixth year, DIGITAL TWEED, Green’s monthly column on technology and higher education issues, appears in Campus Technology Magazine. |
Wednesday, March 29
Closing General Session, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Scott Himelstein
Secretary of Education
State of California
Biography
Scott Himelstein is the Acting Secretary of Education and Chief of Staff for the Office of the Secretary of Education. In that role, he both serves as policy advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger and is responsible for all aspects of the operations of the Office of the Secretary of Education. Previously, he served as the Deputy Secretary of Education under Secretary of Education Alan Bersin.
Prior to his appointment by Governor Schwarzenegger, Mr. Himelstein served as Chair and CEO of the National Even Start Association, a $250 million Congressionally-funded family literacy initiative which has served over 120,000 children. He formed the Association to provide a forum to meet the unique needs of Even Start Family Literacy providers and to advocate for the Even Start Family Literacy Program.
Bill Hill
Researcher
Microsoft, Inc.
Biography
Bill Hill was born in Glasgow, Scotland, at the close of the 1940's, in the tenement slums of the city's East End, most of which have since been bulldozed out of existence. The biggest single event in his life was learning to read at the age of 3. Shortly after that, his mother and father bought him a full set of the Children's Encyclopaedia by Arthur Mee, which must have cost a sizeable slice of their disposable income.
The typography group at Microsoft contains some of the world's experts in creating type for reading on the screen. Hill commissioned world-renowned type designer Matthew Carter to create two new typefaces exclusively for Microsoft, designed specifically for screen readability. Verdana and Georgia typefaces have become classics, especially with the growth in screen reading sparked by the Internet.
In the early 1980s, Hill became interested in computers. This led to a successful freelance career writing about the emerging personal computer technology. His interest in reading from computer screens began in 1985, when he was asked to write the documentation for Guide, the first hypertext authoring and reading application for the Apple Macintosh computer.
Meanwhile, Hill had spotted a new emerging technology -- desktop publishing -- at its very early stage in 1984. Contacts with a leading United Kingdom company and with Paul Brainerd, president of the Seattle-based Aldus Corp. whose PageMaker software was the first professional desktop publishing application, led Hill to become one of the five founding employees of Aldus' European operations in 1986. The company grew from five people to 250 until the 1994 takeover of Aldus by Adobe Systems. At that time, Hill was approached by Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash., and offered the job of running the company's typography group.
In May 1998, Hill left the typography group to join a new electronic books project in Microsoft Research, run by vice president Dick Brass. Since then he has been working on screen readability, especially of type.
"We needed a breakthrough," Hill said. "Type on screen today is just not readable enough. We looked hard, questioned everything, and found what we were looking for. We discovered a new technology to unlock the true resolution of the color LCD screen, which is actually three times better than anyone ever realized, because we've always assumed the pixel was the smallest unit we could effectively address. We were astonished at the quality of what could be achieved with our new technology, which we've called ClearType™."
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