To further support this year's DCATL theme "Back to School with Drupal", we have selected four notable speakers to participate in panel discussion to share their experiences and vision for Drupal within K-12, Higher Education, Professional / Continuing Education and Drupal Training.
Michael Anello has parlayed his passion for software development into DrupalEasy, a Central Florida-based Drupal shop focused on Drupal training, career education and consulting. He created and presents the only comprehensive, licensed long-form Drupal career training program available, both in-person and online. He has a prominent role in the continuing growth of the Florida Drupal Community, serves as a presenter and facilitator at national Drupal conferences, provides training and consulting all over the country and hosts the popular DrupalEasy bi-weekly Podcast with listeners all over the world.
Nancy Flowers-Mangs is the self-proclaimed Drupal Ambassador to Yale University. She works with the User Experience and Web Services department within ITS where she is immersed in helping those in the Yale community build Drupal websites with Yale's web publishing tool YaleSites (http://yalesites.yale.edu). Her enthusiasm using Drupal has earned her the role of Senior Web Community Manager where she is tasked with sharing her knowledge and expertise through training and support of the service. In addition, Nancy is also intensely involved with the Drupal Community outside of Yale as a principle organizer and speaker for the New Haven Drupal Group and the annual Connecticut Drupal Camp – DrupalCampCT.
Sarah Gilbert specializes in training strategy, design, and development at meLearning Solutions. In her PHII Academy Director role at The Task Force forGlobal Health, she leads a team to create global solutions for public health informatics training challenges. Sarah is an ATD facilitator (Mobile Learning Certificate and Essentials of Mobile Development using Adobe Captivate). She also serves on the Greater Atlanta Chapter of ATD executive board and board of directors as 2015 president. Engagement and Interactivity (2013), T+D Magazine, and various other training and workforce publications. She regularly speaks at conferences and business events on the practical application of learning technology.
Shane Thomas is the founder of codekarate.com and the Chief Technical Ninja at STEM Fuse. STEM Fuse builds engaging, standards aligned K-12 STEM Curriculum that is currently taught in over 3,000 schools in all 50 states. STEM Fuse recently funded a $25,000 Kickstarter campaign with the help of the Drupal community to develop a Drupal based website development curriculum to give away to high schools for free. The curriculum is currently being developed with the release date goal of January 2015. The curriculum will be an easy to teach, full semester (18 week, 90 hour) course that meets ISTE standards and includes teacher training.