

With both a Masters of Educational Arts and a Doctorate in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University, Dr. Weiner also serves as an adjunct professor for Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education & Psychology. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Weiner gained experience using virtual "worlds" as an educational environment for children. For her doctoral dissertation, she built a virtual world for Los Angeles inner-city children to teach conflict resolution skills, which also included a peer-mentoring program. Dr. Weiner left the elementary classroom to further her goal of developing technology into mainstream educational curriculums. Among her accomplishments was incorporating appropriate web sites for Ed’s Oasis, one of the very first on-line communities for teachers that offered advice on how to integrate technology into curriculum. She has also been an active educational consultant for children’s programming developers, evaluating scripts, storylines and character development.