Gladys Giebler Swindler is a doctoral student in Curriculum & Instruction with a specialization in educational Computing, Design & Telecommunications at Kansas State University.  She holds BBA degrees in Business Management and Computer Information Systems and a MBA in Business Administration from Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.  Currently, Ms. Giebler is an instructor of Computer and Information Systems at Fort Hays and teaches Introduction to Computers and Management Information Systems courses for undergraduates.  Her current academic interests are distance learning issues, instructional design of distance education classes, and technology implementation and leadership.  She may be reached at: gkswindler@hotmail.com

Kathleen Hogan Jones, Manhattan, teaches middle school science at Eisenhower Middle School. She was finishing up her masters degree (M.S. in Secondary Education) specializing in Educational Computing, Design & Telecommunications as this article was written. Kansas State University and is now in the doctoral program in curriculum and instruction. She may be reached at kathleenj@manhattan.k12.ks.us.

Abdullah AlShehri is a doctoral student in the PhD program in Curriculum & Instruction with a specialization in Educational Computing, Design, and Telecommunications in the College of Education, Kansas State University. His research interests focus on graphic design in educational technology. He can be reached at alwalidi@hotmail.com

Huiping Chen was at the time of this article a doctoral candidate in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Computing, Design and Telecommunications at Kansas State University. Her specialty is instructional design for online and multimediated learning. About the time that this article was published, Ping took a position on the faculty of Illinois State University medical School in Peoria. Ping can be reached at pingchen1@MSN.COM

Bill Rust is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Computing, Design and Telecommunications at Kansas State University. His specialty is use of robotics in K-12 education. Bill can be reached at wjr@ksu.edu

Jeff Williams is working toward a doctorate in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Computing, Design and Telecommunications at Kansas State University. His area of teaching and research is computer science science education at the college level. Combining his recent occupation (Lutheran minister) with his love of computer science, Jeff recently took a job teaching computer science at Concordia University in Wisconsin. He can be reached at jeff.williams@cuw.edu