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Rita Oates
Global ed tech leader with experience in schools from Kansas and Florida to Costa Rica and United Arab Emirates. President of Oates Associates edtech consulting firm. Bilingual English/Spanish. For...view moreGlobal ed tech leader with experience in schools from Kansas and Florida to Costa Rica and United Arab Emirates. President of Oates Associates edtech consulting firm. Bilingual English/Spanish. Former high school language arts and journalism teacher who has given more than 1,000 speeches to parents and teachers on behalf of Microsoft Education. Founding editor of Internet Strategies for Education Markets (Heller Report). Ed Tech director Miami-Dade County Public Schools with more than $10 million in grants won. Associate professor and chair of ed tech program at Barry University. While VP for education markets I helped ePals figure out how to empower K12 educators and engage students with powerful, safe and educationally focused communication and collaboration tools, such as SchoolMail and LearningSpace. PhD and MA from Indiana U; two BS degrees from Kansas U. Also was education editor of the first online service in the US with color and graphics, pre-internet, called VIEWTRON, in mid 1980s. Proud mother of two accomplished young adults!view less