Bernie Dodge - A Shaper and Innovator of Educational Technology During the year 2000, SDSU EDTEC Professor Bernie Dodge received accolades from two different publications. In January 2000, the editors of eSchool News named SDSU EDTEC Professor Bernie Dodge to their 2nd Annual Impact 30 Awards, a list of 30 top players who have had a powerful effect on technology in the nation's schools in the last year. In August 2000, Converge Magazine paid triibute to Bernie Dodge as one of those individuals who shape the future of education through the use of technology. Early in December 2000, Bernie's WebQuest page was one of 14 winners in the Global Junior Challenge, a competition sponsored by the City Government of Rome. There were over 580 education projects competing for the award from over 50 countries, so winning is quite an honor. Given that it was the end of the semester, Bernie chose not to go to Italy for the award, but it was accepted by the US Ambassador and should be arriving here any day now. As an SDSU EDTEC professor since 1980, Bernie Dodge has made significant contributions to the San Diego community and the field of educational technology. He guides curriculum development for San Diego Unified School District Challenge Grants, has developed a new approach to pre-service teacher education with the "Learning Through Cyber-Apprenticeship" project, and was the founding president of San Diego Computer-Using Educators (1982) and later served on CUE Board of Directors. In the Spring of 1995, Bernie Dodge and SDSU EDTEC alumnus Tom March developed an innovative approach to using the Internet as an integral part of teaching any subject at any grade level. This model, which has come to be known as a WebQuest, is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to make efficient use of learners' time, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' analysis, synthesis and evaluation thinking. Since 1995, interest in and adoption of the WebQuest model has grown exponentially. Numerous workshops have been offered to teachers on the format using information and resources from the WebQuest Page.