ToleranceTech.org

ToleranceTech.Org supports the discussion of the growing need to merge technology in the teaching of tolerance.

Creator of ToleranceTech.Org:
Emily Vickery

Emily Vickery is the Upper School technology instructor at The Montgomery Academy in Montgomery, Alabama, where she creates and implements technology-based curriculua. Her students master technology skills as they create projects on social justice and tolerance issues. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Communication and a Masters in Secondary Education.

She has fifteen years of broad-based educational experience—from teaching students in the classroom to working with state departments of education, policymakers, corporations, and nonprofits.

She was a research fellow with Teaching Tolerance, a project of Southern Poverty Law Center, for one year where she analyzed and assessed current trends and issues regarding tolerance-based education. Her work included spending nine days in Columbine High School in spring 2004 to report their story of healing and coping five years after the tragedy.

She worked as a professional development provider for Apple Computer teaching teachers nationwide on integrating technology into the curriculum. She spearheaded Colorado Governor Bill Owens' successful grant application to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on principal and superintendent leadership supported by technology. And, she co-authored the Smart Desktop Report, which was commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Education Commission of the States.
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Other Presenters of ToleranceTech.Org

Jo Alexander
Averil Loague
Larry Vinson

Dr. Jo Alexander is currently a professor in the School of Education at Auburn University Montgomery, in Montgomery Alabama. She has a Bachelor’s degree in History, a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language, and a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Education and Educational Administration.

Her expertise lies in multicultural education, instructional methodology, educational psychology, middle school education, and technology integration. Jo is on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) Board of Examiners and is a WebCT certified trainer.

She has served on numerous state, university and local boards and committees, and has presented at international, national and regional education and technology conferences on a variety of topics. She is actively engaged in curriculum and professional development at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, and the Alabama Institute for Arts Education in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Averil Loague is currently a professor in the School of Education at Troy University’s Atlanta site. She has bachelor degrees in history and earth science, a masters in K-12 reading, and a doctorate in instructional leadership with an emphasis in technology. Averil spent most of her 12 years in public education working with her favorite age group, middle school students. The last eight years she has worked with university faculty and classroom teachers in Alabama and Georgia on how to integrate technology into the classroom. She has conducted local and state workshops in Alabama and presented at regional and national conferences.

Larry Vinson is currently Director of Technology for The Montgomery Academy in Montgomery Alabama. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Masters in Secondary Education, and taught computer applications and provided technology support in public school for six years prior to moving to the Academy as Technology Coordinator and digital publications teacher ten years ago. He now maintains the Academy’s wired and wireless data and video networks, its academic email, web, and file servers, installs, upgrades, and repairs hardware, teaches workshops for teachers, and generally has his hand in most everything that has to do with educational technology on the Academy’s two campuses.

He served on the Alabama Governor’s Technology Task Force while a public school teacher. He has presented at various local and system-wide public school workshops in Alabama, and conferences of the Alabama Association of Independent Schools and at the Alabama Education Technology Conference.

Prior to entering education, he worked in production systems design, product design, and design management in Colorado and Alabama.