Mary Alice Anderson
	Mary Alice Anderson is a speaker, workshop facilitator, writer, and online instructor through the University of Wisconsin-Stout where she teaches Advocacy and Emerging Issues for Media Specialists and Digital Classroom: Teaching Information with Primary Sources. In 2006 she received a Top Online Educator honor from Walter McKenzie's SurfAquarium.
	Mary Alice’s day-to-day job is the Lead Media Specialist and co-webmaster for Winona Area Public Schools in Winona, Minnesota. Previously she was a media specialist at Winona Middle School. Highlights of the 2006-2007 school years include moving into a new media center at their Senior High School, planning the remodeling of two elementary media centers, updating the district's automation system, and continuing efforts in staff development and media program advocacy
Mary Alice has had articles published in Multimedia and Internet @ Schools, School Library Journal, LMC Connection, and other professional journals. Other publications include a chapter on staff development in the Educational Media Technology Yearbook 2000 (Libraries Unlimited) and Skills for Life: Information Literacy for Grades 7-12 (co-editor, Linworth 2000). Select Workshops and Speaking links on the right for information about workshop topics and speaking or consulting availability. In 1999 she was a Library of Congress American Memory Fellow. The lesson she and her partner developed focuses on German Immigration to the Upper Midwest. She has also been an adjunct instructor at Winona State University and a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Education. Her other "hobbies" include serving as a member of the World Book Publishing Editorial Advisory Board and the Thomson-Gale Advisory Board, she also served on the Linworth Publishing Advisory Board, the Knowledge Quest Editorial Advisory Board and worked with publishers of professional journals and books. Another area of professional pride is her involvement in the Minnesota Educational Media Organization. She is active member of MEMO, and is currently the editor of the MEMORandom newsletter. She has served as the State Vice President, State Telecommunications Division chair, and an active member of many committees including the Information Power implementation committee and conference planning committees. Recent involvements include helping to develop a data gathering tool for Minnesota school media centers and working with the team that developed the Minnesota Standards for Effective Library Media Programs and working with the committee that developed the criteria for the 2002 and 2004 Census of Minnesota Media Programs.