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" * About * Fellows * Videos * Events * Accelerator * Community * Partners * Labs * Blog James O'Brien: Hands-on Education James O'Brien: Hands-on Education 2009 PopTech Fellow James O'Brien assembled a staff of like-minded educators to create BCAM - Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School. The fledgling educational-innovation tank combines performance-based academics and professional training in media and arts to prepare teenagers for success in the 21st century."

headshotDr. Greg Elmer, (gelmer at bell.blackberry.net) Director Infoscape Research Lab & Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is associate professor of Communication and Culture and Radio TV Arts at Ryerson University. Greg's research and teaching focus on new media and politics, information and communication technologies, computer networks, and media globalization. Greg provides analysis and commentary for the media on the role of new media in Canadian and American politics. In the fall 2008 Greg worked with CBC-The National on its internet coverage of the Canadian federal election. In 2007 Greg joined Ottawa's The Hill Times as a political columnist.