GUEST SPEAKER

Kristina Hooper Woolsey
Executive Director, The New Media Thinking Project
"New Media Thinking: A Closer Look"
Reseeing everything in the world

A noted pioneer in the development of interactive multimedia as a Distinguished Scientist at Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 - 1998, Dr. Woolsey received her Ph.D. in cognitive science at UC San Diego. Her focus in graduate school was on visual representations, leading her to a postdoctoral fellowship in architecture and landscape architecture. She was on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, where she investigated the development of geographic knowledge and the relationship between spatial abilities and mathematical competencies. As a visiting faculty at MIT in 1978 she was a principal on the Aspen Movie Mapping project.

Woolsey is currently the Executive Director of the New Media Thinking project, a research and development project launched with funding from the MacArthur Foundation in 2005. From 1998 - 2008 she has served as a consultant for a range of organizations, including the Institute for Inquiry at the Exploratorium, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, and the James Irvine Foundation. These projects have allowed her to extend her expertise and impact in the general arena of digital learning, with a continuing emphasis on visual learning.

She is a co-author, with Scott Kim and Gayle Curtis, of VizAbility, an award winning CD/ book product that provides participants with experiences in seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagination. She was the executive producer of a range of multimedia titles in learning --- Life Story, the Visual Almanac, Animal Pathfinders, Disappearing Ducks, Countdown, Planetary Taxi and others --- that were produced when she was Director of the Apple Computer Multimedia Lab. She served four years as a School Trustee for Ross School, a K-8 public school in Marin, including two years as President. She was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, where she continues to consult on projects related to science learning and media.

Woolsey is currently a Lecturer at Stanford University, teaching a graduate class on Interactive Media. She is also Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Learning, Design and Technology (LDT) at Stanford, an Adjunct Professor at Case Western University, and a Board Member of the Center for Digital Storytelling and the Research Channel.

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kristinawoolsey@mac.com