Mary Lasica's PBwiki

I've been working as an Education Adovcate for AT&T California for years.  Now, I will be supporting AT&T teams in many states.

For those of you that don't know me, here is a little walk down memory lane.

I started with Pacific Bell in 1992 as an Intern in the Education Group. At the end of the semester, I was part of a presentation on uses of Internet in education that resulted in funding for summer training.

Summer training involved 2 high school labs being hooked to the Internet, and training staff on telnet, email, usenet newsgroups and FTP. I was then hired on as a consultant to work with staff at those schools. I've been working with Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T ever since.

What have I been doing all these years?

• Training teachers at a variety of schools across California that were new to the Internet.  I trained on Macs and PCs (even DoOS), for K-14. teachers and administrators.

• I worked with the California Voter Foundation to put up the first California Online Voter Guide in 1994. The guide was Gopher-based.

• As part of Pacific Bell Education First, I trained thousands of teachers on online resources available on Pacific Bell's KNE.  You might know a few...Blue Web'n, Filamentality, and Videoconferencing for Learning.

• Videoconferencing, which meant sometimes carrying a big trunk with a Vistium videoconferencing system and a PC.

• Training hundreds of California Community College staff on the using PictureTel videoconferencing.

• Creating online resources on KNE included informational pages about E-rate and CTF. That lead to my next specialty, E-rate and CTF Specialist for SBC/AT&T West.

After years as the E-rate/CTF Specialist, instructional technologies called me back. 

1. With AT&T, I have been training and educating administrators and teachers on 21st century technologies:
2. Web 2.0 in the classroom
3. Cell phones in education
4. CyberSafety for K12
5. VideoStreaming
6. K12 Business Continuity
7. Technologies for Professional Development

Workshops 8-10 to be added soon. 

Interested in knowing more?  Contact me at mary.lasica@att.com