Bonnie DeVarco
Bonnie DeVarco has served as an education technology consultant to non-profit, corporate and educational organizations for the past 15 years. She collaborates on the development of multi-institutional distance learning programs and media enhanced education for the university and the K-12 and was a research and development consultant for the UC College Prep Initiative, one of the first statewide virtual high school programs from 1998-2002. Five years ago she founded the VLearn3D initiative, an international networking hub for educators using multi-user environments to enhance the learning process. She develops interactive virtual worlds and web portals for education including V-UCSC, UCCP's VGenome, LinkWorld, VLearn, BioLearn, UCWrite and others. In addition to producing a broad range of educational media, Bonnie has regularly produced conferences and events in cyberspace and in distributed physical locations around the world through Telascience.org, PlaNetwork, VLearn3D.org, UC Santa Cruz's "Tech Innovation" program, UCLA, the Los Angeles Festival and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. She lectures worldwide on the culture of cyberspace and innovative learning technologies. From 1989 to 1995 Bonnie was chief archivist for the Buckminster Fuller Archives, recently acquired by Stanford University. |