Meet Dave Ruch, my first official artist connection to the digital Human Library! Dave is a historian, entertainer, educator, comedian, folklorist, and musician based out of Buffalo NY. He will be putting on a FREE online, interactive concert for students K-5 on Friday, October 10th at 1:15 pm. For more information about Dave and how to contact him for login information, please read Leigh (of dHL)’s blog here.
My name is Melissa Lavoie. I’m from South Porcupine, Ontario (yep). I started teaching in 2006, fresh out of University of Windsor’s teacher’s college, and was employed by the Northeastern Catholic DSB from 2007 - 2017. I've taught grades 3 through 7, special education, and for my last 2.5 years, I was an Education Technology Special Assignment Teacher. I'm an Airbnb Superhost, an Instructional Designer for Learning Bird, and worked as a GIS-Education Specialist partnered with Mushkegowuk Council. I graduated from UBC's Master of Educational Technology program in November 2019, am VP of Board of Directors for the Digital Human Library and Board Member for Science Timmins, founder of the Walk With Us Project (currently on hiatus) and currently learning front-end web development and how to use a CNC plasma cutting machine.
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