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Published: March 15, 2001.

Speakers

Mark Christal
Education Reseach Associate
University of Texas
Learning Technology Center
SZB 438
Austin TX
78712 USA
Email: christal@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.utexas.edu/

Mr. Mark Christal is a doctoral candidate in Instructional Technology and an education researcher. His dissertation research topic is a multiple case study of virtual museum projects for Native American students. He has been working on projects involving Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, educator professional development, and mulitmedia and learning projects on the WWW since 1993. He has taught high school mathematics for two years and is an accomplished photographer and poet. Through his involvement in the Four Directions project, he has trained hundreds of Native students and their educators from twenty reservations. He was awarded a Special Recognition of Outstanding Contribution from the Pueblo of Laguna in 1997. He co-authored Schools as Knowledge-Building Communities, published the Texas Center for Educational Technology. He is the author of an award-winning web site for educators, QuickTime Virtual Reality for Educators and Just Plain Folk http://www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/qtvr.

Mark will present Virtual Museum Collaborations for Cultural Revitalization: The Four Directions Model