Abbie H. Brown is an associate professor in the College of Education at East Carolina University. His interests include instructional design/technology, instructional media production, and educational uses of the Internet. He is an experienced classroom teacher and is co-author of a number of books, including MAKING THE MOST OF THE WEB IN YOUR CLASSROOM: A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO BLOGS, PODCASTS, WIKIS, PAGES, AND SITES (2008), THE ESSENTIALS OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN (2006), TECHNOLOGY AND THE DIVERSE LEARNER (2004), and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS IN THE CLASSROOM (2002).