Katherine
Anne Emery and Caitlin Kennedy Martin worked in collaboration
to design and implement this site. They will receive their MA
at Stanford University in the Learning, Design and Technology
progarm in June of 1999.
Katherine
Anne Emery, Director of Content
Katherine's focus changes daily, which is both exhilerating
and exhausting. She is interested in storytelling, specifically
the use of visual representation of information in the storytelling
process. She is also interested in the motivational effects
of computer use on teens. Breathe. Prior to graduate school
she taught French in Greenwood, Mississippi, worked as a children's
book editor at Henry Holt in New York City and worked in the
animation department at Pixar Animation Studios. Katherine received
her BA in French Literature and Creative Writing at Miami University
in Oxford, Ohio.
Caitlin
Kennedy Martin, Design Director
Caitlin's
focus is on the design of software for children. She is extremely
interested in the potential of technology to allow, encourage,
and inspire exploration and innovation among children.
Specifically,
in how girls use and view technology, and in software which
provides children with materials, allowing them to construct
their own solutions to complex problems. She is especially intrigued
by the areas of logic, puzzles, and problem solving. Prior to
graduate school she worked as a children's book designer at
Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York City. She received her
BA in English Literature from the Univeristy of New Hampshire,
with a minor in Studio Art.
Acknowledgments
We would like to extend a special thanks to Margo Nanny for encouraging us to pursue this project. We would also like to thank the following people for their interest,
help, contributions, and support:
Kristin Hooper Woolsey, Gayle Curtis, Rajat Paharia,
Marney Morris and the students in CS 377C, Wayne Studer, Don
Rawitsch, Ann McCormick, Liz Russel, Patty DiPriest, Heidi Gilman,
Debra Lieberman, Bay CHI Kids Group, Bethany Kay, Decker Walker
and the LDT students, Tim Lenoir, Allen Cypher, Charles Kerns,
Henry Olds, Marge Cappo, Annie Fox, Holly Brady, Mark Loughridge,
Bill Purdy, Jane Boston, Student from Harvard's Technology in
Education program, Columbia's Instructional Technology and Media
program, SFSU's Interactive Technology program and NorthWestern's
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Alan Coe, Brigid Barron,
Victor Haseman, Steve...,