Linda Woods

Linda Woods has a Bachelor's in Visual and Performing Arts, a Master's in Library Science, and a Master's in Educational Technology. Linda joined the original Education First team in 1995 on a Fellowship at San Diego State University after working 15 years in a variety of libraries including academic, medical, law, and public (including a year of part time work at Ickenham Library in England). Linda also has experience in Federal and local government.

Linda trains customers and sales teams on education trends and the use of technology in higher education and K-12. Because Education Advocates come directly from education and library backgrounds, they have natural affinities with departments and staff such as Curriculum and Instruction, Board Members, Administration, IT, and others. Linda can conduct research on special topics. She can develop customer seminars on various issues (campus safety, emergency preparedness, technology trends, Second Life, mobile applications for education, etc).

By keeping abreast of the latest developments and applications in telecommunications and education industries, Linda is able to help identify future products or education-related solutions for AT&T to develop and market. Linda works closely with AT&T education account managers to identify opportunities, produce and present materials for conferences and trade shows, increase revenue by advocating the use of technology, and educate internal organizations about issues and trends across the education market. Linda’s region include southern California, Arizona, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Linda also manages and develops the AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE) website and serves as the California contact for community college CTF issues.

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Converged Mobility Is mobility in your future?
Explore the convergence of voice, video and data including providing multimedia and other applications over mobile networks. Learn about user privacy, security issues, and network performance.

Education in Second Life
It could be the next frontier. Are you ready? We’ll look at what you need to get started, what you need to do when you get there, and why you want go there in the first place.

Higher Education Trends 2009
Overview of trends from the IT, Admin and Instructional perspective; then ways that AT&T has helped institutions solve these problems including real examples.

Let’s Take a Gander at Google
Google continues to surprise and amaze with its astonishing variety of free offerings. This workshop takes a look at several Google products and how they can be used by teachers and students.

California Teleconnect Fund
Recently, California Teleconnect Fund (CTF) discounts have been extended to community colleges. Learn how your institution can take advantage of this new source of technology funding. (CA only)

Web 2.0W -- What’s Hot? What's Not?
Second Life, Ning, Facebook, Linked-In, and more. Sometimes it seems like flavor of the month. We examine the “shelf life” of these free tools and how they’re being used.

Information Literacy
Find out how teachers, librarians and students can accurately assess the reliability, validity and authority of the massive amounts of information retrieved from the web and produce quality research.

Spinning Web-Based Activities with Filamentality
From choosing a topic to posting a final page on the web, Filamentality guides you through creating web pages that encourage active learning. These pages are then housed on the AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer web site for free for at least one year.

Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying means sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the web, e-mail, podcasts, mobile phones, etc. Find out more about what it is, when it becomes dangerous, and what you can do.

Cellphones in Education
Many of your students might not have laptops; but how many don’t have a cell phone? Whether it’s Polling, Assignments, Calculators, Digital photography, video, Citizen Journalism, or GPS--and the list goes on--there’s something for everyone.

Distance Education: Best Practices
As the number of off-site learning opportunities increases, so do the challenges of providing services. Learn about guidelines for service and cutting edge ways to deliver them.

Higher Education Opportunity Act 2008
What does it mean for higher ed and distance learning? What are others saying and how long before it is enforced? Lots of questions, but does anyone have the answers?