Professional Organization: SLA

Barbara Taranto, New York Public Library

Barbara Taranto

Strategy Analyst

http://www.nypl.org

Repository Development, Future Information Environment, Cloud Computing - DuraCloud

Humanities, Film, Photography, History, Public Policy

Abigail Dickerson Baker, University if Rhode Island

Abigail Dickerson Baker

Student LearningOUtcomes Assessment and Accreditation Assistant

MS University of New England

Academic program assessment using TrueOutcomes

LIbrary and Information Science, Nursing

Matthew Edward Rigby, Queensland University of Technology

Matthew Edward Rigby

Sessional academic

B.Ed., Grad.Dip.Ed. (James Cook), M.L.M. (CQU), M.A.C.E.

Embedding the teaching of the 49 CCEs, and especially expository pargarphing and visual literacies, in Years 8 to 11

History, Geography, Modern History, English

Matthew Rigby teaches currently in secondary English curriclum studies at Queensland University of Technology.

Shayya,Mohammad, Lebanese University,Beirut

Shayya,Mohammad

Professor of philosohy- Exdean of "Institute of Social Sciences"\Leb.University

Prof. of philosophy since 1977

Ph.D. philosophy

-ncurrently, teaching:, contmporary Lebanese and Arab Thought, Middle East cultures, Methodology, Directing Master and Ph.D theses, involved in achieving a major project about: "A comparative statistical study about the recent difficulties of philo.profession at Lebanese and Arab universities"

- the condition and future prospects of Philosophy. as a profession and a job, in Lebanon and Arab countries, - the interculuralism of ME cultures and religions, - Simplifying approaching philosophy

- 1973 master graduate on General philosophy - 1973-77 teacher vof philosophy at Secondary schools - Ph.d. on modern philosophy - 1977- full time assistant then full professor of philosophy at Lebanese University - Author and Translator( in Arabic and English) - Coordinator andco-author of the new curriculum of " philosophy and civilazation" branch of Lebanese Bac.(secondary degree)

Aaron Prevots, Southwestern University

Aaron Prevots

Assistant Professor of French

http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/songs/

PhD French Studies, Brown University

French through Songs and Singing

Digital Media, Learning Objects, Teaching and Technology, Pedagogy, Language and Literature, Culture, Intercultural Effectiveness, Music

Aaron Prevots is Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. In addition to French through Songs and Singing, his current projects include studies of contemporary French poetry and numerous translations, in particular the full-length bilingual poetry volume Retour au calme / Return to Calm (Jacques Réa, trans. Aaron Prevots, Austin: Host Publications, September 2007).

Joseph DiMercurio, Malibu High School

Joseph DiMercurio

http://malibuhigh.smmusd.org

BS UCSC MA and MLIS UCLA and MS Pepperdine

Web 2.0, Teaching Research, New Learning Spaces

Joseph DiMercurio is the librarian and Technology Coordinator at Malibu High School

Toni Carbo, University of Pittsburgh

Toni Carbo

http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~carbo

PhD information science

developing modules for critical thinking in information ethics, exploration of policy differences between the U.S. and EU for e-government

information sciences

Professor, School of Information Sciences and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

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