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Fred Delventhal (Riptide Furse in Second Life) is Chair of the DEN in SL Leadership Council. He works as senior level Instructional Technology Coordinator for a medium sized school district in Virginia. He has presented at National Educational Computer Conference, Northern Virginia Technology Educational Consortium conferences, the Technology and Learning Symposia (Virginia), and the Virginia Department of Education Educational Technology Leadership Conference. Fred has worked as an adjunct professor for George Mason University Instructional Technology Certificate Program, the Four Rivers Consortium (Virginia), and most recently for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Along with the teachers he works with, he has won multiple awards at the MHzNetworks International Shortie Film Festival. He is a Discovery Star Educator and was on the Discovery Education Unitedstreaming Advisory Board. In 2007 he flew with a team of teachers aboard NASA’s Weightless Wonder Microgravity Jet through the NASA Explorer Schools program. Fred was one of four DEN Star Educators to present for the final EDTechConnect Live Webinar also in 2007.

In 2008 the leadership council for the DEN in Second Life were honored with Edublog Award for best educational application of a virtual world.