Building the EcoBox: D.I. von Briesen at TEDxHickory

D.I. von Briesen has been a technologist-educator for over 20 years, and a college teacher for the last ten. He lives in Charlotte and along with his wife is raising five children to follow in his footsteps, combining service with technology, education, and working to understand our natural world.

D.I. created the EcoBox, a self-contained living space made from a converted shipping container, founded the non-profit gDwell, and is active in Hackerspace Charlotte and working to get kids involved in STEM, in part thru partnerships with Discovery Place, Imaginon, and CPCC. He is a regular speaker on technology in education, and an active participant in the open courseware movement. In particular, D.I. is excited by the opportunities that web based tools offer for learning and teaching programming, and the much broader world of the open source maker movement.

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