Presenter Bios

Presenter Bios

Frank W. Baker
Frank W. Baker is a graduate of the University of Georgia (ABJ, Journalism). He worked in television news from 1977 to 1986, at stations in South Carolina, Maryland and Florida. In 1987, he joined the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV/Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel (NIE) to bring media literacy education to teachers and students in the nation’s 16th largest school district. (See 1995 article from Orlando Sentinel; 1996 article from Cable In The Classroom magazine.) Upon returning to South Carolina in 1997, he taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website. His 1999 content analysis of all 50 state’s teaching standards revealed that almost all states standards include “elements of media literacy.” He is past president of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) and past vice-president of the National Telemedia Council (NTC). He is a frequent presenter at schools and conferences across the United States. He has presented at the national conferences of the International Reading Association, The National Middle Schools Assn., and the National Council of Teachers of English. Frank worked for South Carolina ETV (PBS network), from February 1998-mid June 2003. He has assisted the SC State Department of Education’s English Language Arts team in revising the state teaching standards to include media literacy. Portions of his film study guide to the classic “To Kill A Mockingbird” have been published in Australian SCREEN EDUCATION. He serves on the National Council for Teachers of English “Commission on Media.” His first book, “Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies,” was published in January 2007 by Capstone Press. In June 2007, Frank’s work was recognized by the National Cable TV Assn. with the national “Leaders In Learning” award. He contributed a lesson plan to the new NCTE text: Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms Currently, he is an educational consultant.

Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D.
Dwayne K. Buttler serves as a Professor and the first Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville, University Libraries. Much of his work focuses on the complex interrelationship of copyright law, licensing, and activities at the core of the university and library mission-teaching, learning, and scholarly communication.

Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in Telecommunications from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Before joining the University of Louisville faculty in early 2002, Dwayne served IU for over a decade in roles including Senior Copyright Analyst at the Copyright Management Center and Director of Information Science at the Advanced Research & Technology Institute.

Professor Buttler has published writings on copyright in higher education, including co-editing and authoring an article for a “perspectives” edition of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) on fair use and contributing to Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators, Chicago, IL: ALA Editions, 2000, authored by Kenneth D. Crews with contributions from Dwayne K. Buttler.

Dwayne also teaches in other areas intellectual property and mass communication law as an adjunct at the University of Louisville, and he conducts numerous invited presentations on copyright for broad audiences of administrators, faculty, librarians, and scholars in the library and the higher education community.

Jared Covili
Jared specializes in teaching strategies for classroom integration of technology such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems), web page design, and digital cameras. His background is in secondary education where Jared was a Language Arts teacher at the high school level. Jared received his Bachelors degree in English and his Masters degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the University of Utah. Besides his work at UEN, Jared is also adjunct faculty for the College of Education at the University of Utah, where he teaches technology integration classes to undergraduate students.

Julie Drake
Julie Drake currently heads the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s Multimedia Services unit, which is a member of California County Educational Technology Consortium (CCETC), a collaborative of California county offices of education offering media and other services to schools and districts from across the state. CCETC works together on a variety of efforts including CalEdPortal and CaliforniaStreaming, an online multimedia streaming service. As a thirty-year veteran educator, Julie has worked as a classroom teacher, curriculum writer, and professional developer in the areas of technology integration and instructional media. Julie also serves as chair for the National Media Market board.

Laura Hunter
Laura is Director of Instructional Services for Utah Education Network and Station Manager for KUEN-TV. She taught 8 years in an elementary gifted/talented magnet school, and was the State Internet Specialist in Utah. She holds several board positions with national public TV and education groups. Laura has a Masters Degree in elementary and gifted education, and a Ph.D. in teaching and learning. She teaches in the College of Education at the University of Utah. Her research interests include constructivist teaching, school change, and educational technology use in classrooms. She uses TiVO, GPS, ½ the capacity of her iPod, and paid a teenager to enter contacts into her cell phone.

Carrie Russell
Carrie Russell is Copyright Specialist for the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy. Since 1999, she has developed copyright education programs and related services to help ALA members understand the latest trends regarding copyright law and its impact on libraries. Carrie has given presentations and workshops on copyright issues at numerous conferences and is the author of several articles on copyright for library publications.

Before joining the Washington Office staff, Carrie was a librarian at the University of Arizona Library. During her 14-year tenure at Arizona, Carrie worked the academic librarian gamut, holding positions ranging from serials cataloger to media librarian. As the University’s Copyright Librarian, Carrie consulted with faculty regarding curriculum related copyright issues, informed the campus community about pending copyright legislation, and developed an advocacy program for faculty on scholarly communication and alternative publishing models. Carrie also played an instrumental role in the library’s strategic planning, organizational development, and self-assessment activities.

Carrie earned a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Master of Arts in Media Arts from the University of Arizona. Carrie was the recipient of the 2001 ALA Staff Achievement Award, writes a monthly copyright column for the School Library Journal, and is the author of the best-selling Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians.

Tim Stack
Tim provides the expertise behind the Utah Education Network professional development web academy. He trains teachers throughout the state in the areas of technical skills and technical integration and hosts UENÕs weekly Faculty Lounge webcast. After more than a few career changes, Tim discovered education. He spent five wonderful years teaching junior high math, mostly working with special populations. He received his Bachelor of Science in marketing and Bachelor of Arts in geography with a math minor, his secondary education certificate, and his M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Educational Technology all from the University of Utah.

Malcolm (“Mac”) Wall
Mac Wall is the Executive Director of Kentucky Educational Television, a statewide educational television network of 16 stations licensed to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Mac is serving his second term as a professional trustee on the APTS Board of Trustees. With 31 years of public broadcasting experience, Mac has held programming, production, development and management positions with the Oklahoma Educational Television, Mississippi ETV Network, National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), the Louisiana Network, and WMFE-TV/FM, Orlando. Mac has been involved in every level of the public broadcasting industry from the station level to the national organization level.

Mac has served on numerous civic and national boards and organizations that provide collaboration, extension, and outreach for public broadcasting. These include the National Educational Telecommunications Association, the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives, American Public Television, Rotary International, Leadership Oklahoma, Rotary Club of Lexington, Leadership Kentucky, Blue Grass State Games, Partnership for Successful Schools, and Center for Rural Development. He also serves on the Cradle to College Commission and Vision 2015 Planning Northern Kentucky’s Future.

Mac received the 2000 APTS Grassroots Advocacy Award for work with his congressional delegation. He has served with stations which have received every industry award from the Peabody, to EMMYS, to state broadcasting and journalism recognitions.

Mac is a native of Mississippi and a graduate of Mississippi State University.


Frank W. Baker Frank W. Baker is a graduate of the University of Georgia (ABJ, Journalism). He worked in television news from 1977 to 1986, at stations in South Carolina, Maryland and Florida. In 1987, he joined the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV/Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel (NIE) to bring media literacy education to teachers and students in the nation’s 16th largest school district. (See 1995 article from Orlando Sentinel; 1996 article from Cable In The Classroom magazine.) Upon returning to South Carolina in 1997, he taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website. His 1999 content analysis of all 50 state’s teaching standards revealed that almost all states standards include “elements of media literacy.” He is past president of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) and past vice-president of the National Telemedia Council (NTC). He is a frequent presenter at schools and conferences across the United States. He has presented at the national conferences of the International Reading Association, The National Middle Schools Assn., and the National Council of Teachers of English. Frank worked for South Carolina ETV (PBS network), from February 1998-mid June 2003. He has assisted the SC State Department of Education’s English Language Arts team in revising the state teaching standards to include media literacy. Portions of his film study guide to the classic “To Kill A Mockingbird” have been published in Australian SCREEN EDUCATION. He serves on the National Council for Teachers of English “Commission on Media.” His first book, “Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies,” was published in January 2007 by Capstone Press. In June 2007, Frank’s work was recognized by the National Cable TV Assn. with the national “Leaders In Learning” award. He contributed a lesson plan to the new NCTE text: Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms Currently, he is an educational consultant.

Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D. Dwayne K. Buttler serves as a Professor and the first Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville, University Libraries. Much of his work focuses on the complex interrelationship of copyright law, licensing, and activities at the core of the university and library mission-teaching, learning, and scholarly communication. Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in Telecommunications from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Before joining the University of Louisville faculty in early 2002, Dwayne served IU for over a decade in roles including Senior Copyright Analyst at the Copyright Management Center and Director of Information Science at the Advanced Research & Technology Institute. Professor Buttler has published writings on copyright in higher education, including co-editing and authoring an article for a “perspectives” edition of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) on fair use and contributing to Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators, Chicago, IL: ALA Editions, 2000, authored by Kenneth D. Crews with contributions from Dwayne K. Buttler. Dwayne also teaches in other areas intellectual property and mass communication law as an adjunct at the University of Louisville, and he conducts numerous invited presentations on copyright for broad audiences of administrators, faculty, librarians, and scholars in the library and the higher education community.

Jared Covili Jared specializes in teaching strategies for classroom integration of technology such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems), web page design, and digital cameras. His background is in secondary education where Jared was a Language Arts teacher at the high school level. Jared received his Bachelors degree in English and his Masters degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the University of Utah. Besides his work at UEN, Jared is also adjunct faculty for the College of Education at the University of Utah, where he teaches technology integration classes to undergraduate students.

Julie Drake Julie Drake currently heads the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s Multimedia Services unit, which is a member of California County Educational Technology Consortium (CCETC), a collaborative of California county offices of education offering media and other services to schools and districts from across the state. CCETC works together on a variety of efforts including CalEdPortal and CaliforniaStreaming, an online multimedia streaming service. As a thirty-year veteran educator, Julie has worked as a classroom teacher, curriculum writer, and professional developer in the areas of technology integration and instructional media. Julie also serves as chair for the National Media Market board.

Laura Hunter Laura is Director of Instructional Services for Utah Education Network and Station Manager for KUEN-TV. She taught 8 years in an elementary gifted/talented magnet school, and was the State Internet Specialist in Utah. She holds several board positions with national public TV and education groups. Laura has a Masters Degree in elementary and gifted education, and a Ph.D. in teaching and learning. She teaches in the College of Education at the University of Utah. Her research interests include constructivist teaching, school change, and educational technology use in classrooms. She uses TiVO, GPS, ½ the capacity of her iPod, and paid a teenager to enter contacts into her cell phone.

Carrie Russell Carrie Russell is Copyright Specialist for the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy. Since 1999, she has developed copyright education programs and related services to help ALA members understand the latest trends regarding copyright law and its impact on libraries. Carrie has given presentations and workshops on copyright issues at numerous conferences and is the author of several articles on copyright for library publications. Before joining the Washington Office staff, Carrie was a librarian at the University of Arizona Library. During her 14-year tenure at Arizona, Carrie worked the academic librarian gamut, holding positions ranging from serials cataloger to media librarian. As the University’s Copyright Librarian, Carrie consulted with faculty regarding curriculum related copyright issues, informed the campus community about pending copyright legislation, and developed an advocacy program for faculty on scholarly communication and alternative publishing models. Carrie also played an instrumental role in the library’s strategic planning, organizational development, and self-assessment activities. Carrie earned a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Master of Arts in Media Arts from the University of Arizona. Carrie was the recipient of the 2001 ALA Staff Achievement Award, writes a monthly copyright column for the School Library Journal, and is the author of the best-selling Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians.

Tim Stack Tim provides the expertise behind the Utah Education Network professional development web academy. He trains teachers throughout the state in the areas of technical skills and technical integration and hosts UENÕs weekly Faculty Lounge webcast. After more than a few career changes, Tim discovered education. He spent five wonderful years teaching junior high math, mostly working with special populations. He received his Bachelor of Science in marketing and Bachelor of Arts in geography with a math minor, his secondary education certificate, and his M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Educational Technology all from the University of Utah.

Malcolm (“Mac”) Wall Mac Wall is the Executive Director of Kentucky Educational Television, a statewide educational television network of 16 stations licensed to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Mac is serving his second term as a professional trustee on the APTS Board of Trustees. With 31 years of public broadcasting experience, Mac has held programming, production, development and management positions with the Oklahoma Educational Television, Mississippi ETV Network, National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), the Louisiana Network, and WMFE-TV/FM, Orlando. Mac has been involved in every level of the public broadcasting industry from the station level to the national organization level. Mac has served on numerous civic and national boards and organizations that provide collaboration, extension, and outreach for public broadcasting. These include the National Educational Telecommunications Association, the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives, American Public Television, Rotary International, Leadership Oklahoma, Rotary Club of Lexington, Leadership Kentucky, Blue Grass State Games, Partnership for Successful Schools, and Center for Rural Development. He also serves on the Cradle to College Commission and Vision 2015 Planning Northern Kentucky’s Future. Mac received the 2000 APTS Grassroots Advocacy Award for work with his congressional delegation. He has served with stations which have received every industry award from the Peabody, to EMMYS, to state broadcasting and journalism recognitions. Mac is a native of Mississippi and a graduate of Mississippi State University.