Karen Ellis Resume

ENTREPRENEUR

Founder, Owner, CEO of:
EDU-CYBERPG BLOG 2007
Educational CyberPlayground™ 1999
Guavaberry Books™ 1990
National Children's Folksong Repository™ 2003
2 Grammy Awards "Standing In The Shadows of Motown "™ a documentary film about The Funk Brothers who were a relatively unknown group of musicians have played on as many No. 1 one hits as the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Educational CyberPlayground™
Guavaberry Books™
Domino™ Book and Cassette
Domino™ Book and music CD
Domino™ Music CD
National Children's Folksong Repository™
National Children's Folksong Repository Video™
Irish American Vernacular English™
2 original Anansi Folktale E-books™
*Online Webquests and Interdisciplinary Online Curriculum™
Special Edition - Changing Girls' Attitudes About Computers™
Women's History Month
International Gender Equity Resources
What you can do to help GRRLS get into technology!
Best Online Resources For Women and Minorities in Science and Tech
Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age (2000)
Become a Lifeguard and Guard our Airwaves
World Trade Center Crisis Curriculum™
Black History Month All Year Long™
St. Croix Virgin Islands Curriculum™
Standing in the Shadows of Motown Funk Brothers Webquest™
Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum™
Education Vendor Directory Database™
School Directory™ © 1993
National Children's Folksong Repository Database™
How To Use the Internet - A Beginners Tutorial ©1999

SKILL SET

Expert K-12 Online Education
Copyright, Intellectual Property
Educational CyberPlayGround Creator and Technical Director
Online Curriculum Content Provider
Research
Site Architecture
Database Programming
Search Engine Optimization
Security and Privacy Issues
Dreamweaver, Photoshop
Online Mailing Lists (Community, Creation, Development and Maintenance)
Website Development
Online Marketing
Vision and Persistence

AUTHOR / PUBLISHER OF PRINT, AUDIO, & ONLINE MEDIA

2007
Karen Ellis Webcast presents the links between Language, Culture, and Music.  Live from MusicBridge.

American Book Award by Professor Dan Cassidy in "How the Irish Invented Slang Subtitle: The Secret Language of the Crossroads" ISBN: 9781904859604 Acknowledgement for contributed research.

Set up the EDU-CYBERPG BLOG publishing NetHappeings, K-12 Newsletters and Network Newsletters.

Interviewed by Washington Post reporter Jennifer Huget for Steve Case's RevolutionHealth.com about children and cell phone use.

2006
Guest Lecturer Linguistic Rights re: The People's Right To Know - digital democracy. Honoring the work of Scholar Peter Tamony.
Crossroads Irish-American Festival 2006  March 1 - 11, 2006, San Francisco
The Crossroads Irish American Festival is an annual event which celebrates and explores the Irish-American experience and its creative energies, historical reflections, and cultural expressions. This years Crossroads 2006 programming will feature Irish-American musicians, writers, scholars, social justice activists, journalists, politicians, professors, law enforcement professionals, nuns, community leaders, poets, and Nobel Prize nominees.

National Children's Folksong Repository™ [NCFR] BLOG

2005
Captured Appalachian Fiddle Workshop taught by Dr. Alan Jabbour produced with flash

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill publishes "A Tisket A Tasket"a sound recording copyright 1979 published by Guavaberry Books in Domino 1990 by Karen Ellis in the 2005 Teachers first Edition Spotlight on Music Series page T107 and CD Grade 1 Disc 4 track 31,32,33

2004
Launch the National Children's Folksong Repository™ [NCFR] Website
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR

2003
National Children's Folksong Repository™ [NCFR] Video Producer, Director, and Editor
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/ecprm.html

2 Grammy Awards "Standing In The Shadows of Motown "™ a documentary film about The Funk Brothers who were a relatively unknown group of musicians have played on as many No. 1 one hits as the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/culdesac/Stars/funkbrothers.html

2002
Publish Hot List of Schools Online K12 Master Registry Database™
over 4000 schools web sites in the database since 1993

2000
Publish NetHappenings™, K-12 Newsletters™, Network Newsletters™
CreoleTalk™ Mailing List

1999
Publish Educational CyberPlayGround™

Publish Education Vendor Directory™
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Directory/default.htm

Publish ECP K-12 Online Curriculum Content Provider
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Home_culdesac.html

Publish 2 original Anansi Folktale E-books
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/bhm/bhm.html
Download, read, and hear each story narrated in both American Virgin Island Creole and Standard English, plus find out how these stories survived in tact from the original storyteller. The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole folktale below was collected by a Dutch anthropologist, J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, who visited the Virgin Islands in 1923. De Josselin de Jong does not say who told him this story. However, we do know that all of the people who told him stories lived on St. Thomas and St. John and that they spoke both Dutch Creole and Virgin Islands English.

1998
Publish Cul De Sac Mailing, ISSN: 1531-7196 Owner/Moderator
Diversity University Collaboratory Mailing List ISSN:1529-7861 Owner/Moderator

1996
Guavaberry Books Products and Services online
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/PS/Home_Products.html

1995
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill publishes "A Tisket A Tasket"a sound recording copyright 1979 published by Guavaberry Books in Domino 1990 by Karen Ellis in the Teachers Edition of Share the Music page T26 and CD then published again in the 2005 Teachers Edition Spotlight on Music Series page T107 and CD Grade 1 Disc 4 track 31,32,33
We taught them in our classrooms. Sue Snyder, Margaret duGard, Renee Boyer-White and Ivy Rawlins were on the authorship team. The materials include songs, listenings, dances, instrumental pieces, poetry from African and African-American sources, and they are all meet the standards of authenticity and age appropriateness. There are lessons which teach musical concepts and skills, and there are program ideas. There are musicals as well, and lessons based on African proverbs and stories. African and African-American musicians are interviewed.

1993
School Directory / NetHappenings Mailing List

1991
Computer / Modem starting to Archive K-12 Information Online

1990
Publish Guavaberry Books™
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/GuavaberryBooks/
using a Mac and PageMaker publishes "Domino" book and audio cassette Traditional Children's Songs, Proverbs and Culture from the American Virgin Islands

1977 - 1979
Original Live Sound Field Recording ©1979

Developed Thematic Reading Curriculum using Indigenous Playground Poetry to bridge from the Dialect to the Standard raising reading levels in the classroom.

AUTHOR and THOUGHT LEADER

 

30 year Journey from the Meat Space PlayGround to the Cyber PlayGround™ 1976 - 2006
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/GuavaberryBooks/Domino/More_About_My_Work.html

Reasons To Play On The CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Reasons_to_play_here.html

How To Use the Internet - A Beginners Tutorial
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Read_This_First.html

ECP Copyright, and Privacy Statement
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/copyright.html

Personal Mission Statement
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Mission_Statement.html

ECP Mission Statement
Improving literacy through arts education and advocacy by providing collaborative and interdisciplinary resources for understanding world culture

2002 "Bury Dead Education Dots With Dignity" quote Washington Post
eSchool News Online http://www.eschoolnews.com/News/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=4004

2001 The Importance of Crafting Culturally Relevant Content http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/stories/index.cfm?key=160
As more and more classrooms are wired, the Internet provides teachers a new gateway to relevant, diverse and engaging content. The CyberPlayGround portal offers an interdisciplinary guide to using the Internet to deliver online curriculum. It provides comprehensive learning resources for different cultural and ethnic groups, and also for those with different approaches to learning

2000 What Is A Thematic Reading Curriculum
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/Cross_Curricular_Thematic.asp

1997 Panelist for the The First Virtual Online Conference on Technology And Music Education Kennedy Center of Performing Arts -- ArtsEdge Website
The Role of Technology in Elementary Music Education
"The Oral Tradition and the New CyberPlayground"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com//pdf/KennedyPaper.PDF

1990 "Domino" book and audio cassette Traditional Children's Songs, Proverbs and Culture from the American Virgin Islands
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/GuavaberryBooks/Domino/_DOMINO_.html

1979 Original Live Sound Field Recording
Certified # 881999 ©SRu 7- 675 ©1979
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/GuavaberryBooks/Domino/_DOMINO_.html

EDUCATOR

Present: Expert serving the K-12 Community

2007 - Educational CyberPlayGround Blog starts publishing 18 year old NetHappenings Mailing List.

2004 Took over NetHappenings, Network Newsletters, K-12 Newsletters mailing lists and K-12 School Directory from Internet Pioneer Gleason Sackmann.

1999 Launched Educational CyberPlayGround portal

1996 Part-time Faculty at Rosemont College, graduate school program in Writing and Publishing.

1990 Substitute Teacher Delaware County and Montgomery County School Districts, PA

1983 6th Grade Middle School Teacher in the San Diego Unified School District - California

1981 Adult Night School San Diego Unified School District - California

1978 Thematic Reading Curriculum developed raising reading levels of American Virgin Islands Creole and Spanish speaking elementary students St. Croix, U.S., Virgin Islands

1977 Elementary Teacher Ricardo Richards School, St. Croix United States Virgin Island

1976 Music Therapist -- Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic
Emotionally disturbed children and their families age 3 to 18 years old in short term treatment setting. Where the brilliant clinician Dr. Salvadore Minuchin father of "Family Therapy" first brought his technique.

1975 Temple University Philadelphia, PA
B.S. Elementary Education, Presidents Scholar, Magna Cum Laude

1973 Orff Schulwerk Teacher Certificate Memphis State University

1970 and 1970 Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto
Orff Schulwerk Introductory and Intermediate programs.

PRESENTATIONS

- PETE & C - Hershy PA Educational Technologists 2/22/05
- University of the Sciences - Philly PA 5/2/00 to Graduating Science Teachers, Mentors, Faculty, Admins, Master Teachers
- COMPUTERS IN SCHOOOL LIBRARIES 2001 THE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE FOR INFORMATION AGE LIBRARIANS March 13-17, 2001 Washington, DC

RADIO INTERVIEWS

- 1999 "The Digital Age" by Jim Leonhirth focus on Technology
- 1993 WXPN 88.5 FM "Kid's Corner" focus Children's Playground Poetry during Black History Month 1993 Interview by Kathy O'Connell in Philadelphia

TELEVISION INTERVIEWS

- 2000 AND 2001 CN8 Comcast Newsmakers aired 4 million Comcast Subscribers NJ, PA, DE

IN THE PRESS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/press.html
- 2001 Educational CyberPlayGround Founder Karen Ellis meets Rod Paige Secretary of Education
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/RodPaige.html

Affiliations
LinkedIn
Grey Ribbon Campaign calls for Open ICANN Board Meetings
ICANN At-Large Membership Study Committee
Creative Commons
World Intellectual Property Organization
40+ mailing lists

MORE AWARDS

Educational Webliography	USA TODAY The Educational CyberPlayGround provides teachers, parents, librarians, home schoolers and regular folks a "webliography" of links to educational resources in a wide range of subjects. With a cool choice of site maps to browse from. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/
USA TODAY Best Bets	Archive: Keywords (case sensitive): Educational CyberPlayGround Search Results Title: The Educational CyberPlayGround Description: A helpful resource to teachers, parents, librarians, home schoolers and even those with little or no on-line experience, to use the Internet effectively.
Earthlink.net Featured Site bLink Magazine August 2000	EarthLink member Karen Ellis founded the Educational CyberPlayGround to provide a community for intuitive learners, adult learners, and educators working with students on the Web and in classrooms. Using her experiences teaching movement, dance, and elementary education to young people in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Ellis set up a learning site that celebrates diversity in students' backgrounds while highlighting the variety in students' preferred approaches to learning. When you access her award-winning site, you can choose the map that matches your learning style (intuitive, logical, or visual) by clicking on the "search this site" pull-down menu. Explore playful educational approaches to music, arts, literacy, and technology. Then sign up for her high-quality, low-volume mailing list: Diversity University Collaboratory, an exciting community of students of all ages and teachers who share ideas about how you can learn without leaving your cultural identity behind. URL: http://www.edu-cyberpg.com Publication Date: 01-09-1999
NYT Site of the Day Award link	The main purpose of the Educational CyberPlayGround is to help all teachers, parents, librarians, home schoolers and regular folks, even those with little or no online experience, to use the Internet effectively to aid teaching. The site offers well-organized links in the areas of curriculum, arts, the Internet, linguistics, music, teachers, literacy and technology.
	Black History Month Online Best Sites Guide URLwire for Monday, February 5, 2001 2/2001 http://www.urlwire.com/News/020501.html

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