About+the+Presenters

Kathy Cassidy
Kathy Cassidy is a grade one teacher at Westmount School in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada who is very interested in the ways in which technology can support and augment the learning in her primary classroom. She has a [|classroom blog] and also blogs [|professionally].

Clarence Fisher
Clarence has been a classroom teacher for the past 15 years. He blogs professionally at [|Remote Access], with his class at [|Idea Hive] and has spoken at conferences worldwide. Clarence has won several awards, including one of Canada’ highest teaching awards, the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching for his integration of technology into daily classroom life. Clarence's innovative classroom practices have been featured online, in books, magazines, and newspaper articles. He is an advocate of classroom 2.0, learning spaces that take complete advantage of the tools that are available to learners in their quest to learn rather than having school be something that is done to them.

Darren Kuropatwa
Darren Kuropatwa is [|Department Head of Mathematics] at [|Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute] and Convener of the [|K12Online Conference]. Known internationally for his ability to weave online social tools meaningfully and concretely into his pedagogical practice he has over 20 years experience in education and 13 years in leadership training. Darren’s professional blog is called [|A Difference] ([]).

Dean Shareski
D ean Shareski is a Digital Learning Consultant with the [|Prairie South School Division] in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. He taught in K-8 classrooms for 14 years and has been supporting teachers and students in understanding best practices in technology in the classroom for the past 7 years. He holds a Masters of Education in Communications and Technology through the [|University of Saskatchewan]. Dean is also a sessional lecturer for the [|University of Regina]. He blogs [|here], loves his family, enjoys golfing, hates shopping and tolerates his dogs.