Service

Paid Consulting Services

  • Instructional Design Consulant: Behavioral Intervention to Prevent Falls in Older Adults Role: Instructional Designer NIH (1 R43 AG21882-01) V. Panzer (PI) 9/01/02 – 2/28/03.
  • Web-enhance Conflict Resolution video vignettes for middle schooler, STARStreams (beta test at Mansfield Middle School)
  • External Evaluator: Ct Alliance of Regional Education Service Centers (RESCs): Technology Literacy Challenge Grant funding for Teacher Technology Professional Development Fall 1998-2000.
  • Instructional Design Consultant: Academic Edge, Inc. STARStream conflict resolution project. 2000.
  • Young, M. (2003). Keynote address: Addessing the big questions: Does technology enhance student achievement? Distance learning, classroom technology, professional development and pedagogical factors. Qunebaug Valley Community College Technology Showcase. June 6, 2003. http://www.qvcc.commnet.edu/groups/summer03/showcase.html
  • Young, M. (2003). Expert testimony to Connecticut Board of Education on issues concerning Educational Technology. Feb 19th, 2003.
  • Book Review Editor Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002- present.
  • Reviewer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1996, 2000, 2002.
  • Reviewer: Addison Wesley Longman 1996.Reviewer: J. of Experimental Psychology: General 1996.
  • Reviewer: J. of Educational Computing Research 1996 -Present.
  • Washington State, Vancouver, Invited Address on K-12 use of interactive multimedia. Jan. 29-30, 1993.
  • Computer Based Education Evaluator for the Hartford Board of Education. Oct .1990 to Aug .1991. Instrument development, implementation and analysis of a system-wide evaluation of the use of computers for instruction in middle school for the Hartford Public Schools.
  • Apple Consultant in Education (ACE) presentations on the use of multimedia technology in middle school mathematics. Made to all Maryland State mathematics coordinators, 16 Nov 1990, and to Fairfax, VA mathematics educators and curriculum coordinators, 22 Jan 1991.
  • Reviewer. Allyn & Bacon Publishing. Clements Mathematical Problem Solving: Summer 1992.

Committees Served

  • Dean’s Reorganization Committee, Spring 2001.
  • NSOE IRTAC (technology planning), chair, Fall 1999.
  • SOE Area Review Committee (ARC) Fall 1998-2000.
  • Provost’s “plug-and-play” committee, Spring 1998.
  • Provost’s AIT planning committee (P. Kobelnicki, chair), Fall 1997.
  • SOE Technology Strategic Planning committee (F. Archambealt, chair), Spring 1998.
  • EPSY 240 Review Committee (Chair), Spring 1998.
  • UCEML planning subcommittee, Spring 1998.
  • SOE Technology “Student Learning & Distance Learning” subcommittee, Spring 1998.
  • IMT Search Committee (Chair), Spring 1997, Fall 1997.
  • Governor’s Joint Committee on Educational Technology, appointed Fall 1993.
  • Provost’s Small Classroom renovation project Fall 1994- Spring 1995.
  • Curriculum and Courses, School of Ed., UConn, Fall 1992-Summer 1994.
  • Alternative Approaches to Instruction, EPSY Dept., UConn, Fall 1992.
  • Teacher Education Applicants Review Committee, UConn, Spring 1991.
  • 5th Year Program Steering Committee, UConn, Spring 1991.
  • NCATE Knowledge Bases Subject Subcommittee, UConn, Fall 1990.
  • Graduate Studies Committee, Psychology Department, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, 1983.
  • Instructional Technology Professor Search Committee, Department of Teaching and Learning, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, 1983.