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Kimberly Greene, Ed.D.
With both a Masters of Educational
Arts and a Doctorate of Educational Technology from Pepperdine University,
Dr. Kimberly Greene (the former Dr. Kimberly Weiner) leads EdTech21, the consulting firm she founded
in 1998. This unique source for information, support, and assistance with
media components, specializes in ensuring that the audiences exposure
to ideas and information is powerful and meaningful. She consults, constructs,
designs, and implements materials and programs relating to content, intended
outcomes, interface design, curriculum design, appropriate use, as well
as assessing the impact of the final experience for the intended audience. Some of her clients have included American Honda, Leap Frog Enterprises, On Location Education,
Knowledge Kids Network, Fox Family Channel, The Simon Wiesenthal Museum
of Tolerance, Hollygrove Residential Home for Children, Rourke Publishing,
Girls Clubs of America, and Highwood NP. In 2004, Dr. Greene added published children's author to her list of accomplishments. Her book,
NOT MY REALITY, offers tweens a friend/role model in Sam, a twelve-year-old girl who loves reading, writing, horses, and technology.As of September 29th, 2006, Dr. Greene's book has been rewritten and published in the United Kingdom under the title, MY SISTER'S A POP STAR. This novel is scheduled to be released in Greece sometime in the spring of 2007. As well, Usbourne Publishing has already contracted for the sequel book to be written and published in the fall of 2008.
"The strength of media as an educational
tool is not that it can show or tell kids what to do. Its greatest asset
is its ability to engage a childs imagination so that the child gains
an understanding that she has endless opportunities to use her own ingenuity
to solve problems, seek answers, and explore ideas. Rather than aiming
to give answers, we should be creating media that helps children construct
better questions," offers Dr. Greene.
A firm believer in the benefits of
incorporating constructivist ideals with engaging media, Dr. Greene understands and shares how intimate
electronically mediated experiences (television, CD Rom, Internet) can
allow children to learn at their own pace in a comfortable, interactive,
non-judgmental environment. In this environment, children can escape peer
pressure and focus on both strengths and weaknesses while identifying abilities
unique to themselves.
Dr. Greene initially left the elementary
classroom to further her goal of developing technology and designing opportunitites for integration into mainstream
educational curriculums. Among her accomplishments, seeking out
appropriate web sites for Eds Oasis, one of the very first on-line communities
for teachers.
During her doctoral studies, Dr. Greene designed and implemented a program
that used a virtual world to teach conflict resolution skills and peer
mentoring to Los Angeles inner-city school children. She has also been
an active educational consultant for childrens programming developers,
evaluating scripts, storylines, and character development. Dr. Greene stays
current with the state of education by continuing to serve as a
professor of education for Chapman University's University College.
A sought-after speaker, Dr. Greene
has been invited to speak at several major conferences including WebNet
99, Women in Technology (WIT), The National Education Computing Conference
(NECC) and The Kentucky Educational Technology Conference (KETC). She is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
(ATAS), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Computer Using Educators
(CUE) organization, and The Digital Round Table- Entertainment SIG.
In addition to her degrees from Pepperdine,
Dr. Greene also graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts. She holds teaching credentials for the states of California, Illinois, and Colorado.
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