Alan Levine is an innovator in educational technology, currently working as an independent consultant under his firm, CogDog It.  His interests include web-based story telling, digital photography, educational technology, blogging, and anything else that involves being creative online. He is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web going back to 1993. An early proponent of weblogs for information sharing, he shares his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog.

His previous position was Vice President Community & CTO for the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 260 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies, dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression. In that role,  Alan infused the organization with applications of web 2.0 tools, including a new NMC web site as an online community featuring rich media, user-generated content, folksonomy tools, and social presence. He designed web and wiki-based systems for many NMC projects, and was a lead researcher for the NMC’s series of Horizon Reports.

Before joining the NMC, Alan served 14 years as Instructional Technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, Arizona where he was actively engaged in research and development of learning technologies. Alan was a key contributor to significant efforts such as Ocotillo, a faculty-led initiative that promoted innovation and drove change, created the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), a virtual warehouse of innovation that pioneered the use of RSS in syndicating learning object content, and developed Feed2JS, an open source software shared for allowing people to easily incorporate RSS content into web pages. His Writing HTML is one of the earliest and most widely used guides to creating web content.

Alan’s most recent teaching experience has been Digital Storytelling (ds106) at University of Mary Washington where I taught the course in person class (Spring 2012) and online (Summer and Fall 2012).

Alan is widely recognized for expertise in the application of new technologies to education and was a pioneer on the web. An early proponent of blogs and RSS, he shares his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog. More recently he has explored new forms of storytelling (50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story), and tools for connecting and open sharing online.

Alan works from where he travels or from his home in Strawberry, Arizona. His interests include digital storytelling, photography, bending WordPress to his whims, and randomly dipping into the inifinte river of the internet.

Over the summer of 2011 Alan is taking a hiatus from the working world for a road trip odyssey of exploration and is teaching online as well as offering consulting services under the banner of CogDog It.

• University of Delaware, BS, Geology , minor Computer Science, 1986
• Arizona State University, MS, Geology, 1989: “Ash Flow Zones of the Bishop Tuff: Detailed Mapping with Landsat Thematic Mapper”

• 2011-present: Top Dog (consultant) , CogDog It.
• 2006- 2011:  Vice President NMC Community & CTO, The New Media Consortium
• 1992-2006: Instructional Technologist. Maricopa Center For Learning & Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges

• Levine, Alan. Experiments in Web Storytelling. Journal of Museum Education, Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2011, pp. 249–260.
• Alexander, Bryan and Levine, Alan. Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre, EDUCAUSE Review, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 6 (November/December 2008).
• Johnson, Laurence F., and Levine, Alan H.  Virtual Worlds: Inherently Immersive, Highly Social Learning Spaces. Theory Into Practice, Spring 2008, Volume 47, Number 2.

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