Marianne Malmstrom has been an educator for over 25 years. Her fascination with using emerging technologies in the classroom led to her current position as a middle school technology teacher at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ.  She has worked with colleagues to develop a program rich in the use of multimedia.  Her school has received two JPMorgan Chase awards for “Excellence in the Use of Multimedia” as part of WLIW’s Teaching & Learning Celebration.

In Second Life, Marianne is known as Knowclue Kidd.  She has volunteered as an ISTE docent since May 2007 and has been responsible for organizing several online media projects such as the SLEDcc 2008 Machinia Festival.  As an early adopter of machinima (video created using 3D virtual worlds), Marianne has been keenly interested in how this new medium can be used for education.  Her machinima work includes “ISTE in Second Life”. and “No Future Left Behind”.  Working with her 8th grade tech club, she is currently exploring the use of machinima in the classroom to teach media literacy skills.