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Keynote speaker -- Tim DiScipio
Tim DiScipio is the Founder of ePals (www.epals.com).
Created in 1996, ePals is the Internet’s
largest and fastest-growing community of
connected global classrooms, and
provides safe email, blogs, eMentoring,
literacy solutions and a collaborative
virtual learning space platform designed
specifically for the K-12 market.
Recognized as one of the Internet's
first social networks, ePals now reaches
over 18 million teachers and students in
200 countries. Tim's leadership helped
set the company’s product, user growth
and partnership strategy, as well
as establish ePals into a global brand
and one of the K-12 education industry's
most important and useful learning
resources. ePals brings real
world experiences and meaningful
learning into classrooms by enabling
them to connect across the globe for
project sharing, cross-cultural
exchanges, literacy and foreign language
practice, or simply to port and share
their work amongst classmates and
teachers.
A true pioneer and industry leader in
Internet media and design, social
networking and K-12 education
technology, Tim has visited many
hundreds of schools across the US and
worldwide. He is a frequent keynote
speaker at international conferences and
has been interviewed by major
publications such as the The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal and
leading education trade magazines.
Before ePals, Tim founded several early
Internet marketing and design agencies
and placed some of the first media on
the Web. He spent seven years as
Director of New Business Development for
TMP Worldwide (parent of Monster.com),
where he led TMP's early interest and
focused TMP founder and key management
on using the Internet and interactive
media in the agency’s business model.
Tim recently briefed US House and Senate
members on the impact and challenges of
broadband technology to in 21st
Century education, and contributed to a
key 2009 FCC report on “Barriers To
Broadband Adoption” addressing the
challenges US schools are facing
integrating technology and 21st Century
skills into the curriculum.
He serves on several industry and
education advisory boards, including the
National Middle Schools Association 21st
Century Classroom Project. A former top
collegiate NCAA Track and Field
Championships participant, Tim is still
a competitive runner and a triathlete in
training, as well as a musician and
collector of vintage guitars. |
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