Caroline
McCullen is the Instructional
Technologist for SAS inSchool,
the K-12 Education Division of SAS Institute, the world’s largest
privately held software corporation. Much of her time is
spent working with educators across the country as they provide
feedback and suggestions for the award-winning software being
developed at SAS inSchool®. Her interest in technology
began in her middle school English classroom in 1994, where she
established MidLink Magazine, a nationally recognized web
site created by students and teachers all over the world. She
taught for 22 years in public schools at the middle and
high school level. For two years, she served as an Educator-on-Loan
to the NC Department
of Public Instruction, and in 1996 she was honored by Technology
& Learning as the National Technology Teacher of the Year.
Her
degrees include
a B.A. in English with a minor in education, and a M.S. in ESOL. She continues
to publish
numerous articles in Technology
& Learning, Learning and Leading
with Technology, ISTE’s HyperNEXUS, Multimedia Schools, the Florida English Journal, Florida
Technology Quarterly, and many
other technology periodicals. In 1997, she established the
"Electronic
Thread" column, which became a regular feature in the National Middle School Association’s
Journal, Middle Ground.
Caroline
also served on the National
Technology Expert Panel, an 18-member panel of educators and researchers
from across the US, assembled by the Department of Education in Washington,
DC. This panel established criteria for
evaluating the effectiveness of school or district technology programs, and
the Department of Education published their work in a booklet distributed
nation-wide.
For
5 years, Caroline has been on the board of HyperSIG,
Multimedia Special Interest Group of the International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE).
From 2000 - 2002, she served as President of HyperSIG and worked to establish
an international multimedia competition called Multimedia Mania. She is
currently serving as Presidential Advisor to the board of HyperSIG.
She continues to work with an international staff of talented
teacher-editors to publish MidLink Magazine and often presents keynotes
and workshops at national and state conferences on topics such as web
publishing, digital copyright, technology integration, multimedia, and
assessment.
She
has been happily married to her best friend...her husband, Dewey, for 35
years. They have two children, ages 26 and 28, both of whom graduated
from public schools.
