- -: TEDxTempleU - Ebun Olaloye - Football, shirts, + a powerful idea
April 22, 2011 (about 13 years ago)EBUN OLALOYE is an architecture major at Temple University. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Ebun migrated with his family to the US. Being the middle child in an intellectual family, he had to start working hard at a young age to get noticed. This began to pay off in high school, where he harnessed hi...
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- -: TEDxTempleU - Elizabeth Housholder - A Responsible Freedom
April 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)ELIZABETH HOUSHOLDER came to Temple University as the first program director for the Office of Leadership Development, and now also works as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Strategic Communication. Her list of experience and accomplishments is long, including work at Miami Univers...
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- -: TEDxTempleU - Jean Michel - Peace and Love Proclaimers: Youth for a Change
April 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)JEAN MICHEL HABINEZA was both and raised in Rwanda. In 2006, as a secondary school student, he initiated the 'Walk for Survivors' in remembrance of those who perished in the genocide, gathering more than 1000 students and $3000 that was used to start an education program. He later founded the P...
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- -: TEDxTempleU - Mohamed Niang - Malo Traders LLC: The Harvest Fairy
April 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)MOHAMED ALI NIANG is a senior International Business and Entrepreneurship major at Temple University, with minors in Economics and Corporate Sustainability. His efforts both in and out of the classroom have been widely recognized: he was part of the winning team at the 2010 Center for Internatio...
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- -: TEDxTempleU - Tayo Arinola - Real Humanitarians
April 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)TAYO ARINOLA is a Washington DC native with Nigerian ancestry. Her BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology allowed her to explore basic science and clinical research, making medical discoveries at Pasteur Institute and Kimmel Cancer Center and inspiring her to become a physician. Her time abroad a...
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- -: TEDxUIMP - Juan Freire - Ecosistemas de aprendizaje y tecnologías sociales
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)JUAN FREIRE Doctor en Biología y Profesor Titular de la Universidad de A Coruña (UDC) en la que fue Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias. Además desde Marzo de 2009 es responsable de la Cátedra de Economía Digital de EOI Escuela de Organización Industrial (Madrid). En la UDC coordina el grupo de inv...
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- -: TEDxLansing-Sharon Emery-The Disabled Listener: They can talk, they can hear, they just don't listen
June 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Sometime way-back-when, humans figured out that we need to interact in a meaningful way, so language -- talking and listening --came to be. That was then. Today we focus on the production of sound rather than the thoughtful receipt of it. Our culture celebrates the glib, which poses a real challe...
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- -: TEDxHamburg - Stephan Balzer - Interview Project Germany
June 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized even...
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- -: TEDxBloomington -- Edward Castronova -- "Be A Gamer"
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Edward Castronova, Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, is a founder of scholarly online game studies and an expert on the societies of virtual worlds. Castronova teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the design of games, the game industry, and the management of virtual ...
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- -: TEDxBoston - Rick Borovoy - Junkyard Jumbotron
July 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)"The magic of face-to-face is under assault." Rick Borovoy from the MIT Media Lab explains that while mobile devices are helping us to interact across distances, they are also blocking us from having authentic shared experiences with one another. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is ...
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