4 Reasons 2 Stay Fri-Mon

The NAMLE 2011 Conference spans four days: Friday, July 22 (the pre-conference day) through Monday, July 25. Here’s just a taste of why you’ll want to stay for all of them.

Richard Beach (University of Minnesota) provides attendees with a hands-on experience in using digital annotation tools (i.e. Diigo, iAnnotate, Garageband/Audicity, VoiceThread, VideoAnt, YouTube Annotations, Jing, SnapzPro, and Webclipper) for creating audio, video, and written annotations for collaboratively sharing responses to print texts, images, and videos as well as providing feedback to students’ digital productions.

Friday Media Demonstration 2:30-3:30pm (CD&I)

Perspectives on Media Literacy Education — A Global Look

Global media literacy education is of critical importance to the digital world we live within today. This session captures how the social media technologies have impacted the educational curriculums and the study of media literacy education throughout the international community. Belinha De Abreu (Drexel U.) moderates a distinguished panel that includes Paul Mihailidis (Salzburg Academy), Melda Yildiz (Kean U.), Tessa Jolls (Center for Media Literacy), Jordi Torrent (UNAoC) and Alton Grizzle (UNESCO)

Saturday 10:45-12:15pm (SMCE)

Brian Johnson (Bloomsburg University) presents, Multicultural Media Literacy: Using Mainstream Film to Teach Diversity and Social Justice. In this session, mainstream Hollywood film is an excellent tool for teaching, but students must understand movies as harbingers of cultural expectations and beliefs, and not just entertainment. This session highlights best practices for using film to complement instruction, increase cross-cultural dialogue, and minimize resistance to diversity education.

Sunday 3:00-4:00pm (MDIV)

Facilitating critical analysis of media messages in the classroom is a complex and essential technique in media literacy. Chris Sperry (Project Look Sharp) will engage participants in exploring Project Look Sharp’s Tips for Media Decoding through modeling the process, naming strategies, discussing concerns, reflecting on pedagogy, and sharing resources.

Monday 9:00-10:30am (TED)

Register here for the NAMLE 2011 Conference.

Tags: Alton Grizzle, Belinha De Abreu, Brian Johnson, Chris Sperry, Jordi Torrent, Melda Yildiz, Paul Mihailidis, Project Look Sharp, Richard Beach, Tessa Jolls

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