MEET THE AUTHORS

MEET THE AUTHORS

The people who bring you Learners Online are professional educators who each month invest many hours of research time to find the best educational sites on the Web. But unlike others who merely report great sites, these instructors develop these sites into useful, age-appropriate instructional activities. Learn more about each of these great educators.


	J. Alan Baumgarten

	Alan began his career as a freelance writer and broadcast media producer. In 1991 he turned his focus to secondary education, teaching English and computer technology in an inner-city school in Long Beach, California. While teaching Alan continued writing, and in the summer he managed a small direct-marketing company. In 1995 Alan returned to Utah to write full-time for publishers like DDC and Thomson South-Western. About this time he also began developing Web sites for a burgeoning Internet market. His book Exploring the Internet: A Cyberspace Odyssey was the first educational text of its kind to cover basic HTML authoring. Alan holds a master’s degree in education with a specialty in instructional design and composition theory. He currently works as the senior writer for Candesa Interactive, an agency which produces interactive communications and high-end Web sites for such Fortune 500 companies as Novell, Iomega, Intel, 3Com and Franklin/Covey. Alan still finds time to write freelance for educational publishers (he as written eleven textbooks), including Learners Online. Amazingly, Alan sometimes manages to sneak in an early morning of fishing on the Provo River, Utah's noted blue-ribbon trout stream. His latest fishing book, Spincasting Brilliantly, arrives at bookstores early next year.