You’ve heard of blogs, wikis, and nings, but you’re wondering how to use them in your classroom? We have some exciting possibilities on exhibit at our New Media Gallery, Friday, November 20, 2009 from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in Room 202A. Sponsored by NCTE’s Commission on Media, the New Media Gallery can be your “one-stop shopping” location for all things related to new literacies.
Showcasing teachers and students who are working with new media in innovative ways to critically analyze and create, the Gallery will be filled to the brim with resources, including multiple handouts, books, and many experts there to answer your questions all day. Presentations and installations will spotlight teachers who are promoting critical literacy, while also expanding their repertoire of texts to include such new media as podcasting, blogging, videomaking, web publishing, and text messaging. Stay all day or just drop in for a session or two.
The Gallery will feature brief presentations beginning at the session times listed below, but most of each session will consist of answering any questions from participants who may want to apply these ideas in their own settings. Conference attendees are welcome to come and go as they please during the day, viewing the various installations and participating in discussions with presenters in an ongoing dialogue about new media. Bring your laptop, log into our strong wireless connection, and join the discussion and excitement in the New Media Gallery!
Also join us at the New Media Gallery group on the NCTE Ning.
Session One 9:30-10:45
Title:
Media Literacy Made Easy: Integrating Media and Technology into an English Classroom
Presenters:
Jeff Share, jshare@ucla.edu
5948 Ostrom Ave., Encino, CA, 91316
UCLA, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Teacher Education Program, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Chris Shamburg
New Jersey City University Graduate Program of Education and Technology
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ, 07305-1597
cshamburg@gmail.com
Program description/abstract:
Audience members will learn through doing, how to easily record sound effects and narration with photographs and drawings to create multimedia projects. Designed for teachers interested in integrating popular culture, technology, and media into their curriculum through an English Language Arts standards-based critical media literacy framework.
Chair:
William Kist, Ph.D.
Kent State University
404 White Hall
P.O. Box 5190
Kent OH 44242-0001
wkist@kent.edu
Session Two 11:00-12:15
Title:
News Literacy: Helping Students Learn to Read Between The Lines
Presenters:
Alan Miller, Director
alanmiller@thenewslliteracyproject.org
Stony Brook University/HS Teachers
Robert Riegger, English/Journalism Teacher, Smithtown HS, riegger@optonline.net
Jenna Ortiz, Social Studies Teacher, Longwood High School, JOrtizLHS@hotmail.com
Program description/abstract:
Two separate and unrelated “news literacy” projects are underway: both are designed to engage students in understanding how to interpret and critically question news in the 21st century. Four high school teachers, two representing each project, will describe how the project meets standards and engages young people to be smarter news consumers. Two goals of The News Literacy Project: TO LIGHT A SPARK OF INTEREST IN INFORMATION THAT HAS A PUBLIC PURPOSE, AND TO GIVE STUDENTS THE TOOLS TO SEPARATE FACT FROM FICTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE (Alan Miller)
Session Three 12:30-1:45
Title:
The English Classroom at Science Leadership Academy
Presenters:
Zac Chase
Science Leadership Academy
55 N. 22nd St.
Philadelphia PA 19103
zchase@scienceleadership.org
Chris Lehman
Science Leadership Academy
55 N. 22nd St.
Philadelphia PA 19103
clehman@scienceleadership.org
Program description/abstract:
Grade levels: middle school, high school
In this session, teachers, administrators, and students from this award-winning, visionary high school will demonstrate various progressive learning strategies that don’t necessarily involve technology. The Science Leadership Academy provides a rigorous, inquiry-driven, project-based college-preparatory curriculum emphasizing the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection.
Chair:
William Kist
Session Four 2:30-3:45
Title:
21st Century Literacy Education: Report from the Media Education Lab
Presenters:
Aghigh Ebrahimi Bazaz
904 South 6th St
Philadelphia, PA 19147
aeb95@temple.edu
Jiwon Yoon
8460 Limekiln Pike #519
Wyncote, PA 19095
jiwony@temple.edu
Sherri Hope Culver
Temple University Media Education Lab
School of Communications & Theater
Office 205
2020 N. 13th Street
Phila. PA 19122
shculver@temple.edu
Program description/abstract:
The panelists, representing researchers and faculty at Temple University as well as partner organizations, will be joined by local students to present: highlights of a university-school partnership addressing children’s stereotypes about people from the Middle East through critical analysis and media composition; an online communication tool for girls aged 9 to 13 that develops media literacy through fun games/activities (My Pop Studio); and multimedia projects produced by students as part of a media literacy camp.
Chair:
Renee Hobbs
308 S. 2nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19106
Renee.hobbs@temple.edu
Session Five 4:00-5:15
Title:
The Deep End of Engagement: Teaching Media Literacy with Graphic Novels
Presenters:
Peter Gutiérrez
695 Grove St.
Montclair, NJ 07043
peterjgutierrez@yahoo.com
Jen Powers, PhD
321 Bentley Ave.
Poultney VT 05764
powersj@greenmtn.edu
Program description/abstract:
Intended audience: 5-12 ELA teachers
Comics’ very popularity can make their curricular presence suspect. Is it possible, then, to leverage this same engagement to foster a critical approach not simply to graphic novels, but to media more broadly?
Drawing upon the two Media Commission members’ classroom work, the presentation will show how deconstructing iconic characters such as Batman and adapting Scott McCloud’s groundbreaking insights can provide powerful ways to address audience/purpose, representation, and visual literacy.
Chair:
Katie Monnin, PhD
13401 Sutton Park Dr. S. #1015
Jacksonville, FL 32224
k.monnin@unf.edu