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Dr. Maria H. Andersen is the Learning Futurist for the LIFT Institute and a Math Professor at Muskegon Community College, where she organizes Ignite MCC. She writes the "Teaching with Tech" column for MAA Focus and has recently published articles in Educause Review and The Futurist. Lately she has been spending a lot of time building games for teaching math and musing about the future of learning and higher education. You can find Maria blogging on the Internet at TeachingCollegeMath.com or on Twitter at @busynessgirl.
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Living & working in Mid Michigan near Lansing, John presented at Ignite Lansing 3.0 in March of 2010. He is an MSU grad who has a passion for serving others and connecting people.
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Dixon's Violin (@dixonsviolin) specializes in doing the impossible, and loves to take people on transformational journeys. Brandon Chesnutt, one of the organizers of Ignite Detroit, said, "I've never seen an Ignite audience sit in silence with their mouths wide open. It was an incredible performance."
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Jerzy Drozd (@Jerzy) is a cartoonist, which is to say, a person who writes stories visually in the medium of comics. He also teaches courses on how to make comics around the Southeast Michigan area and beyond, and in the first seven months of 2011 he has worked with nearly 2000 students. He is one of the founders of the Kids Read Comics Celebration, a yearly event held in Michigan featuring hands-on comics workshops for young people and professional development workshops for adults.
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Erik Hofer (@ehofer) is fascinated by the ways in which we can collect and reflect on the data that we generate in our lives to become healthier, happier, more collaborative and more responsible global citizens. His research and teaching focuses on how we can improve sharing, data collection and data use in both health and consumer domains. Erik lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Rob takes a look at the history and evolution of the Ponsonby Cruising Club, and what that means for the next generation.
Presenter: Cornelia "Corri" Wells
Biography: U. of Texas-Arlington: (PhD 1997) Rhetoric/Composition, Women's Studies minor. Wm. Paterson U., NJ: Dir. of Composition. ASU-Tempe: English Dept. & Barrett Honors College. Courses: persuasive writing, creative nonfiction, writing about literature using multiple literary & cultural lenses. Co-author: Racism and Sexism: A Collaborative Study.
Description: With 3 premises (I Write; Therefore, I See—Voice Is a Verb—Publish or Democracy Perishes), I encourage everyday citizens to use anger to engage community & activate democracy. How? Let anger RRRiPPP (in WRITING only): RANT to identify concerns, REFLECT to explore reasons, REVISE to educate, & PUBLISH-PUBLISH-PUBLISH (blogs/tweets/newspapers/more).
To submit your own idea visit http://ignitephoenix.com/submissions
Presenter: Tom McDermott
Biography: Teaching, learning, loving, laughing and playing around the world for the last 20+ years -- as if I've been on a perpetual search for the meaning of life. Looking for answers to the questions that always seem to come back to me; why we do the things we do & why we don't challenge each other to do, individually & collectively, what's best?
Description: After 10 years of study and research, I've discovered the trait most affecting human happiness; and it's not love or passion. All the Greats focused their greatest natural fascination toward their most burning questions. So how about YOU? What do YOU wonder about? Light your fascination on fire to help solve problems in your community and world!
To submit your own idea visit http://ignitephoenix.com/submissions
To celebrate Ignite Phoenix #10, the entire Ignite core team gives a joint introduction and shares why they are so passionate about this event and the impact it has on the community. Ignite Phoenix #10 was held May 20th, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
To learn more or to share your passion visit: http://ignitephoenix.com/submissions
Presenter: Dustin Diehl
Biography: Writer, 'Star Wars' fanatic and movie enthusiast.
Description: I had the pleasure of attending my first 'Star Wars' "Celebration" (as they are called) this year and I discovered that us fans are a kick-ass group, and, when brought together, create a bubble of unique energy unlike anywhere else in the world...which is a shame, because the world could use a lot more of what we've got!
To submit your own idea visit http://ignitephoenix.com/submissions
What is Ignite?
Ignite is a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes.