Professionals: Doug Johnson
Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato (MN) Area Public
Schools; Doug writes, speaks and consults on school technology
and library issues.
Blue Skunk Blog (Doug's blogsite)
http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/
Doug’s Personal Website: http://www.doug-johnson.com/
Biography:
Doug Johnson has been the Director of Media and Technology for the
Mankato Public Schools since 1991 and has served as an adjunct faculty
member of Minnesota State University, Mankato since 1990. His teaching
experience has included work in grades K-12 in schools both here
and in Saudi Arabia. He is the author of four
books: The Indispensable
Librarian, The Indispensable Teacher's
Guide to Computer Skills,
Learning Right from
Wrong in the Digital Age and Machines are
the Easy Part; People are the Hard Part. His regular columns appear in
Library Media Connection and Teacher magazines and his articles have
appeared in over forty books and periodicals. Doug has conducted
workshops and given presentations for over 130 organizations throughout
the United States as well as in Malaysia, Kenya, Thailand, Germany,
Qatar, Canada, the UAE and Australia and has held a variety of leadership
positions in state and national organizations, including ISTE and
AASL.
Selected Online Articles & Documents:
Johnson, Doug. Budgeting for Mean, Lean
Times. (Presentation
handout), 1999.
http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~fiehn/budget.pdf
Johnson, Doug. Designing Research Projects Students
(and Teachers) Love. Multimedia Schools. Information Today, Inc.,
Nov./Dec. 1999.
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/nov99/johnson.htm
Eisenberg, Michael B. and Johnson, Doug. Computer
Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning and Teaching Technology
in Context. ERIC Digest. ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology
Syracuse NY. ERIC Identifier: ED392463, Mar. 1996.
http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed392463.html
Johnson, Doug. Why Do We Need Libraries When
We Have the Internet? Knowledge Quest (AASL); 2(1), Mar. 2002.
http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/internet.html