Biography

John grew up in Avon Lake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where he excelled in music and in Spanish. During his high school years, he participated in the well-regarded Avon Lake Shoremen Marching Band and as a senior, received the coveted Spanish award, for the best student in the study of Spanish. He was also a member of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, a prestigious wind ensemble organized through the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University.

John attended the University of Rochester (NY), continuing his study of music history, conducting, composition, and performance between the College of Arts, Science and Engineering, and the Eastman School of Music.

John completed graduate studies in 1999 through the music department of Case Western Reserve University, where he continued participating as a trombonist in the University Circle Wind Ensemble and Case Symphonic Winds. While intensely studying music, John tended his love of technology through the development of graphic designs and web graphics as the Web emerged.

Since 1999, John has been located in the Richmond, Virginia area, actively participating in various organizations and professional development venues, including WCVE and GRAETC’s EdTech conference, the Virginia Society for Technology in Education, the Greater Richmond Area Educational Technology Council, and the Central Virginia Consortium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. John earned in 2005 a master’s degree in instructional technology through Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

In 2006, John was named state technology leader of the year by the Virginia Department of Education at their annual Educational Technology Leadership Conference where John has been a frequent presenter and participant. In 2007, Virginia Tech recognized John through their Education Leadership Award by recognizing the teacher blogging initiative through Goochland County Public Schools.

In March, 2008, John’s first book, RSS for Educators was released by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). At ISTE’s NECC, the premier yearly international conference for technology in education for K-12 schools, John has presented multiple times as a workshop presenter, poster presenter, and lecturer.

John has been quoted, written about, or interviewed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Teachers Magazine, Scholastic Administrator Magazine, Leading and Learning with Technology, Edutopia, and CDWG EdTech Magazine. John has published scholarly articles for the Virginia Society for Technology in Education Journal and the Philosophy of Music Education Review.

John Hendron is webmaster and supervisor of instructional technology for Goochland County Public Schools in Virginia. Outside his professional duties, John enjoys gourmet cooking, collecting recordings of music (renaissance, baroque, classical, jazz), photography, and travel. John is a member of the cult of Mac, and promises this will be the penultimate part of this website where he refers to himself in the third person. Hide this bio.

Elsewhere

Follow John via Twitter, via Skype, or via AOL instant messenger. John also writes a blog about music.