Sue Brindley is currently a lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge where she is course manager for the secondary PGCE and leads the English PGCE. She also co-ordinates the MEd module on Researching Practice: Early Career Teachers. She is general editor of the forthcoming Open University Press series on teaching and ICT and co-author of the volume on secondary English teaching with ICT Before this post, she was Professional Officer for English at QCA, and wrote the Open University Secondary English PGCE.

Charles Crook is Reader in Education at the University of Nottingham where he is attached to the Learning Sciences Research Institute. His research takes a cultural psychological perspective on young people's use of new technology.

Roy Dymott was a graduate student at Loughborough University and now works in industry.

Kwok-Wing Lai is an Associate Professor and Head of the Faculty of Education, University of Otago. He has a keen interest in studying and researching into the use of computer-mediated communication in the school curriculum, teacher development, as well as the social and ethical aspects of ICT use in education. He is the founding editor of Computers in New Zealand Schools.

Guy Merchant after teaching for many years now co-ordinates the work of the Language and Literacy Research Group in the School of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published widely in the area of curriculum English and is particularly interested in the impact of new technology on the ways in which we define and use literacy. He is currently researching the use of onscreen writing in the early years.

Moira Monteith is currently an educational consultant and was previously principal lecturer in ICT in education at Sheffield Hallam University and before that an English teacher. She has written and edited a number of books concerned with the use of ICT and with writing. Recent research includes student use of a 'virtual campus' at Sheffield Hallam University and student web-based study.

Sarah Monteith received a BA hons in English Literature from Lancaster University, and a PGCE in middle years education from Edge Hill University College. She is currently teaching English to years seven to eleven at Lathom High School, a mixed comprehensive in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. She has taught the literacy summer school at Lathom and is the ICT co-ordinator for the English department there.

Rachel Pilkington (C.Psychol., ILTM) is a Senior Lecturer in ICT and manages the e-learning team at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Rachel received a B.Sc. in Psychology from York University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Education from the Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds in 1988. She has researched dialogue in a variety of computer based and networked learning contexts from developing literacy in disadvantaged school children to tutoring diagnostic skills in medicine and developing communities of practice in Education.

Christopher Turner lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University's Institute of Education, mainly as a member of the Secondary English Team. Before joining the University, he was a Head of English in a Stockport comprehensive school. He has research interests in and has written about ICT and English, and Literary Theory and Reading.

Alison Tyldesley lectures at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. Previously she was a Literacy Consultan