Nathan Smith, is Director of Technology Integration for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. He is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences, where he teaches this course and Photoshop & Graphic Design. He directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC)located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student open-access computer facility, a K-12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Regional Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center.

Nathan serves on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET). He currently is the voice of the organization through the newsletters, emails, and blogs he runs for them.

A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students of every age from young children to senior citizens. He taught 4th, 5th, and 6th grades at the Santa Clara Elementary School in Santa Clara, Utah for twelve years. Now he teaches undergraduate and graduate students at Utah State University.

Over the last several years, he has had the opportunity to work extensively with groups of international teachers through the IREX/TEAprogram sponsored and funded through the U.S. State Department. In 2011, he was invited by the U.S. State Department to go to Amman, Jordan to train high school teachers from Jordan and Lebanon in the use of technology in education, and to share open education resources with them.

He is married to Phyllis. They have seven children. Nathan also is an artist, graphic designer, and photographer.