1996 Provocateurs & Judges
Betsy Hrabe
A doctoral student focusing on instructional technology and research, Betsy Hrabe comes to the University of Virginia after a fourteen year teaching career. Most recently, Betsy served as developer and coordinator of an
alternative school-within-a-school for at risk high school
students which was recognized as a model of excellence for such
programs throughout the state of Virginia. Her teaching
experiences have led Betsy to an interest in exploring the
applications of technology with at-risk populations in the
classroom as well as the uses of the case study method in
various forms and teaching situations. Betsy holds a B.A. in
history from Wellesley College and an M.Ed. in Special
Education from the University of Virginia. When not in school,
Betsy can be found puttering around her farm in the Blue Ridge
mountains.
meh4u@virginia.edu
Valerie Larsen
Valerie Larsen is a doctoral student in instructional
technology at the University of Virginia's Curry School of
Education, where she is engaged in the development of
interactive technologies for use in adult and teacher
education. Larsen is also researching the effectiveness of
various interactive technologies. She brings to these tasks
eighteen years of experience in manufacturing engineering,
production planning and control, and manufacturing management
gained at Information Handling Services, a high-technology
information firm in Denver, Colorado.
vlarsen@virginia.edu
Valerie (left) and friend contemplate the case.
Mable Kinzie
Mable is an
associate professor at the Curry School of Education,
University of Virginia. She teaches Instructional Design
(beginning and advanced), Digital Image Manipulation,
Interactive Technologies (I and II), and Research on
Instructional Technology. Named 1990 Young Scholar by the
Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT),
Mable also serves on the editorial board for the AECT journal
Educational Technology Research & Development. Her research
agenda is applied in nature, and focuses on determining
effective design and implementation techniques for interactive
instruction and information, most recently via the Internet's
World-Wide Web (WWW). Among her recent research and
development projects, the Interactive Frog Dissection has
achieved international prominence. (To examine this program,
point your WWW browser to:
http://teach.virginia.edu/go/frog). At present, Mable is
collaborating with other Curry faculty to explore the
combination of case-based teaching methods, interactive
multimedia, and the Internet, in order to deliver
university-level instruction via the Internet to an
international audience. (See
http://teach.virginia.edu/go/casecourse for an example of a
teacher education course built around this model.)
kinzie@virginia.edu
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