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TEDxLibrariansTO Speaker: Melanie McBride

Published on June 9, 2011 By admin

We are pleased to announce Melanie McBride as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Melanie McBride is a Toronto-based early adopter, educator and researcher with Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab, where she is studying autonomous learning and play in situated, informal gaming environments. In addition to her teaching, Melanie has produced award-winning interactive new [...]

TEDxLibrariansTO Speaker: Eric Boyd

Published on June 8, 2011 By admin

We are pleased to announce Eric Boyd as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Eric Boyd is an engineer, environmentalist, and transhumanist. He currently spends his time developing wearable electronic senses, devices which augment your interface to the world, turning you into a cyborg. For more information, please visit his speaker’s page.

TEDxLibrariansTO Speaker: Siobhan Stevenson

Published on June 8, 2011 By admin

We are pleased to announce Siobhan Stevenson as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Siobhan Stevenson (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.  After ten years working with an agency of the Ontario government responsible for the coordination of autonomous public library boards through the development of policies, programs and [...]

TEDxLibrariansTO Speaker: Amy Buckland

Published on June 5, 2011 By admin

We are pleased to announce Amy Buckland as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Amy Buckland is the eScholarship, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator at McGill University Library, where she is responsible for scholarly communication, publishing initiatives, and making rare items from special collections available to the world through digitization. For more information, please visit her speaker’s page.

TEDxLibrariansTO Speaker: John Miedema

Published on May 10, 2011 By admin

We are pleased to announce John Miedema as our first TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. John Miedema is the author of Slow Reading, a concise review of research and concepts about the benefits of reading more slowly. Miedema has a Master of Library and Information Science and works as an Information Technology Architect. His current writing project examines [...]