Remembrances will be published here as they are submitted.
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Stephen Marcus
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| Farewell Stephen by Anita Best, ISTE Educational technology has lost a pioneer, creative thinker and entertaining speaker—not to mention a good friend and nice guy. Stephen Marcus died Friday, August 20, 1999, while in the hospital recovering from heart surgery. Dr. Marcus was on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he coordinated the National Writing Project Technology Network. His work included attention to:
He published widely in the field of educational technology and was the author of 11 software packages for English Language Arts teachers. For the National Council of Teachers of English, Stephen served on the Commission on Media, Committee on Information Literacy, and the Advisory Board for their Assembly on Computers in English. The Alliance for Computers and Writing presented him with its first Innovation Award, recognizing his "outstanding contributions to educational excellence and celebrating [his] application of creativity, practicality, and innovation and the great strides he has made on behalf of the educational community nationwide." He also received awards for his work from CUE (Computer-Using Educators) and ISTE. We will always remember Stephen for his humor and his conference titles with a twist:
Jon Madian, Humanities Software, has proposed a memorial home page for Stephen. Peter Reynolds and Gary Stager have done just that. The URL is www.stager.org/stephenmarcus/. Recollections, photos, etc., may be mailed to marcusmemorial@stager.org. |
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| From Technology and Learning Magazine by Judy Salpeter, Editor-In-Chief The editors of Technology & Learning magazine and the staff of the SchoolTech conference will deeply miss Dr. Stephen Marcus who passed away in August. As a contributor to this magazine over the years and a member of the SchoolTech organizing team, Stephen was a good friend who impressed us with his dry sense of humor, open mind, and dedication to helping kids and adults think creatively with help from technology. Marcus coordinated the National Writing Project Technology Network, based at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and had strong interests in process writing, video-based communication, virtual reality and much more. He was never afraid to (gently) challenge thinking and practices he viewed as misguided, pointing out in one talk that espousing technology because it helped teach pointless things better was a lot like "finding a better way to burn a witch." Nor did he take himself or his beliefs too seriously promising, for example, in one conference session to deliver a "deeply superficial tour of some fairly odd ground and rather strange territory." He will be missed by many in the educational technology world. |
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| "He was such a kind and gracious man with a wonderful sense of humor to go with his exceptional intelligence—I will truly miss Stephen beyond words." Ian Jukes, Thornburg Center |
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