Technical Contact Aaron Grill - agrill@trackcurrentevents.org Aaron is the Director of Technology and Faculty member at The Browning School in New York City. TRACKER began through collaboration with Joe O'Brien and developed into his masters project. As the designer and programmer of trackcurrentevents.org, Aaron can help with any technical questions or problems you might be having with the website. Also, if you have any suggestions for the website you can contact him.
Curriculum Contact Joe O'Brien - jobrien@trackcurrentevents.org Joe is a Faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Education and has dedicated a great amount of time to helping K-12 and College students to utilize the Internet for researching, discussing, collaborating and reacting to current social and political issues.
Classroom Specialist Contact Jennifer Schlicht - jschlicht@trackcurrentevents.org Jennifer is a teacher at Bonner Springs High School and has used TRACKER extensively in her classroom. She continuously helps evaluate the site and recommend ways to improve the design and usability of the site while finding the best classroom techniques to get the most out of TRACKER.

Tracker Resources

Aaron Grill's Masters project
SITE presentation PowerPoint
NCSS 2002 PowerPoint
Tracking Current Events: Using the Internet to Explore Unfolding Stories

Tracker Publications

O'Brien, J.E., Grill, A., Schlicht, J., "Tracking Current Events: Using the Internet to Explore Unfolding Stories," Social Education, April-May 2006.

O'Brien, J.E. & Grill, A., "Increasing Student Awareness and Discussion of Current Events Using TRACKER: An Online Tool For Web Authoring and Discussion," Computers in the Social Studies, v. 11 n. 2 May-August, 2003.

Tracker Presentations

O'Brien, J.E., Grill, A. Schlicht, J. "Following Last Week's Current Events Tomorrow via the Internet," National Council for the Social Studies conference, Kansas City, November, 2005.

O'Brien, J.E. "Tracking Current Events," National Council for the Social Studies conference, Phoenix, November, 2002.

O'Brien, J., w/J. Cox, A. Grill, S. Smith, & S. Smith, "Technology Integration through Innovation and Collaboration," American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 2001.

Grill, A, "Tracking Current Events," Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional Social Studies Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2002.