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Liz Iannotti is the Academic Coordinator and an instructor at the
English Language Center Day Intensive Program in Adult and Continuing
Education. She teaches listening, speaking, and writing
classes and has led numerous faculty development initiatives. Liz is
currently experimenting with incorporating student-created digital
storytelling projects in her ESL courses to build communication
skills. To view Liz’s digital story sites go to
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William J. Koolsbergen is Director of the Theatre and Communication
Option of the Liberal Arts Program. He has a Ph.D. in Theatre
from The Graduate Center, CUNY. In addition to his national work
in Learning Communities with Phyllis van Slyck, he is a professional
actor who most recently appeared in an episode of Law and Order.
He is working on a book and one-man theatre program, When I
Was Beautiful.
William F. Kurzyna became a full-time member of the Communication
Skills faculty in September 2001. He is working towards a doctorate
in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. He
has also appeared in several plays produced at LaGuardia, among
them Death of a Salesman, Mother Courage, and Medea.
George McCormack completed his doctoral degree at Columbia
University’s Teachers College with a specialization in Remedial
Mathematics. He has been a member of the LaGuardia faculty for
two years and serves as the at-large faculty representative on the
College Senate. His current interests include the origins of the new
math curriculum and video streaming web-based tutorials.
Carol Montgomery teaches Speech/Communication courses to
native and non-native speakers of English at LaGuardia. She teaches
a methods course, Teaching Second Languages Across the Content
Areas, for future ESL and foreign-language teachers at New
York University. She has also taught at Nanjing University and
Shanghai University in the People’s Republic of China
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