Beverly Hunter
is Co-PI for the VISIT Teacher Enhancement Project.
She works with teachers, scientists, and technologists to create new applications
of advanced technologies to learning and teaching.As a systems engineer
with IBM in 1965,Beverly specialized in educational applications in computers.Since
then, she has developed with teachers a wide range of educational applications
of technologies such as telecommunications networks, computational simulations,
data bases, hypermedia, GIS, and various programming languages. As a champion
of creative teachers, she has published such books as "My Students Use
Computers" and "We Teach with Technology."As a director in funding agencies,
she has funded thousands of creative teachers to develop innovations in
learning and teaching, university faculty, and working scientists, to
develop pedagogically meaningful scientific investigations using geospatial
tools and data.
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