As owner of Educational CyberPlayground, Karen has been developing online educational content for years. SHe has been doing a lot of site work recently, making it easier to navigate through the 1700 pages of content found there!
In the last couple of years Karen began hosting Gleason's Sackman's newsletters (NetHappenings, K12 Newsletters and Network News), which she has taken on as her own project with Gleason's retirement (enjoy yourself Gleasonm - you've earned it!). Karen saw it as a major privilege to be a part of Gleason's efforts and she felt it was a piece of K-12 online history that shouldn't be allowed to disappear. You can find them at
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/ where they are published on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Karen handles about 500 emails a day, scanning for cool stuff to send to the lists.
Karen has also kept Gleason's Hot List submissions going, and is currently in the middle of updating the Hot List Registry of K12 schools - which he had started first before any one else got into it. Check it out at
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/. The new database redesign is now up!
A personal passion of hers, Karen tries to get ed techs, classroom and music teachers to record childrens' songs and submit them to the online library project she created called the National Children's Folksong Repository [NCFR] http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/. Last fall she evenproduced a video about it that is streamed at http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/ecprm.html.
For all of her efforts on behalf of educators everywhere, Karen Ellis is truly deserving of this recognition!
- Walter McKenzie
