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  • Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins – Creating Authentic and Engaging Community-Oriented Learning Spaces


    Sarah Robbins talks about her experience teaching in virtual classrooms in Second Life.

    Download the full talk at terasaur.org

    More info about Sarah Robbins can be found on her website at intellagirl.com

  • Bob Sutor: Open Source and Open Standards

    Bob Sutor visits UNC Chapel Hill to talk about open source and open standards

    You can download the full talk at terasaur.org

    Sutoir is the Vice President of Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences at IBM Research. You can learn more about him and his work at his website

  • Dan Gillmore: We the Media

    Dan Gillmor, founder of Grassroots Media Inc., is working on a project to encourage and enable more citizen-based media. This weblog is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society.

    Download the full talk at terasaur.org

    Dan is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People, a 2004 book that is widely credited as the first comprehensive look at way the collision of technology and journalism is transforming the media landscape.

    From 1994-2004, Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont.

    A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Dan received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards.

    Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.