Conference Program

LATE REGISTRATIONS (After 10/21/09):
If you are registering after October 21st, please print and bring a copy of your registration invoice to the conference admission.

ATTENTION:
Please review the following program and print out or write down the TIME and ROOM # of the conference you would like to attend in each of the two tracks, so you may readily select these on the following registration pages. You may only choose "one" conference per time slot.

PLEASE NOTE:
Conference attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops, PDAs, netbooks or Twitter enabled phones, so they can participate in on-line social networking that will be part of this year's conference. Directions on how to obtain Internet connectivity and where people will be talking, will be provided in your attendee packet. For those who can not attend, tell them they can backchannel with us on Twitter at #homeinc

8:00 - 8:30 AM Registration

8:30 - 8:45 AM Conference Greetings

8:45 - 10:00 AM Keynote Speaker



Rm. 345
Seminar Title: 
Digital Nation - Education in Transition to 21st Century Learning

Presenter:
Alan November, Educator and Educational Consultant   

Seminar Description:
This Keynote presentation includes an analysis of trends in learning... independent and hands on learning that tracks projects that explore how the web and digital media is changing the way we think, work, learn and interact. Examples from WGBH Frontline's Digital Nation documents the national trends in schools in Texas, California and elsewhere. The Keynote will highlight these trends and how they are developing with specific reference to examples from across the country.

Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology and was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Classroom Computer Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed as one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden. His writing includes numerous articles and best-selling book, "Empowering Students with Technology". Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.

10:15 - 11:45 AM Sessions (After-School Track)



Rm. 315
Seminar Title: 
Learning Library Builds On 21st Century Skills that Include Appropriation of Existing Materials and Creating, and Collaboration  

Presenter:
Erin Reilly, Research Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Project New Media Literacies  

Seminar Description:

This session will introduce participants to the Learning Library, an aggregator of media from the web, such as a video, image or audio file, but also a publishable tool that allows participants, whether students or educators, to integrate personal-life experiences with a learning concept.

The Learning Library takes advantage of sites such as Flickr or YouTube, and encourages students and educators to produce and circulate their own materials, creating an open-content, open-knowledge network and was developed on the 4 C's of Participatory Design:

·       How do we facilitate Connections in a design model?

·       How do we provide mechanisms for Creating?

·       Are there ways for communities to Collaborate and build upon each other's knowledge?

·       Have we created transparency for media to Circulate?

Participants will walk away with access to the Learning Library for:

·       Inspiration to apply concepts to the concerns and goals of their learning environments

·       Integration for a blended learning experience between the virtual and physical world,

·       Adaptation to create different learning contexts, and

·       Creation of new challenges that have helped us refine models for others to do the same.

Project New Media Literacies Research Director Erin Reilly is co-creator of Platform Shoes Forum’s model program Zoey’s Room, a national online community for 10-14 year-old girls, encouraging their creativity through science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Zoey’s Room has proven results in advancing STEM and Media Literacy skills. In 2007, Erin received a National Educational Leaders in Learning Award from Cable in the Classroom for her innovative approach to learning through Zoey’s Room.  

 


Rm. 325
Seminar Title: 
Media, Camera, Action!: Teaching Teens to Prevent Dating Violence through Media Mastery   

Presenter:
David Bickham, PhD., Staff Scientist, and Lauren Rubenzahl, EdM, Program Coordinator, Center on Media and Child Health       

Seminar Description:
This session introduces a program model in which teens use media literacy skills to address a challenge faced by their community. Piloted as part of an initiative to prevent teen dating violence, this model integrates media literacy into a peer leadership training program. It trains youth to think critically about media messages, re-examine what they believe to be “normal,” and create video messages they can use in their community to address this challenge. By engaging youth both in examining media they use and in creating their own media, this model promotes becoming a critical consumer and creator of media as a way for youth to address the social issues of our time.
 
Over the course of a 4-year initiative called “Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships,” the Center on Media and Child Health is collaborating with Start Strong Boston’s lead organization, the Boston Public Health Commission, to train youth to prevent teen dating violence by promoting healthy relationships. These young people bring their learning into their communities and serve as mentors to younger students around these issues.
 
David Bickham is a staff scientist at CMCH, whose work focuses on the effects of violent media on young people’s health and development. Lauren Rubenzahl is an educator who develops curriculum and who, along with two other members of CMCH’s staff, taught this past summer’s 5-week youth workshop.

Rm. 335
Seminar Title: 

Student As Researcher, Producer and Publisher: New Media, Education, and Journalism 

Presenter:

Bill Densmore, Director/Editor, University of Massachusett’s Media Giraffe Project

 

Seminar Description:
This workshop will look at the role of citizen journalism and new media has in teaching and learning and shaping the discussion about critical social, political and technical issues with K-12 students. We will explore the use of the web, blogs, on line surveys and other social media tools and how to apply the principles of journalism in shaping their use in the classroom. 

Bill Densmore is director/editor of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the New England News Forum. He is a Fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is a co-founder of CircLabs Inc., a Bay Area startup, which is developing a new way for users to discover, share, create, discuss and exchange value with publishers. Media Giraffe, launched in March 2005, in an effort to find and spotlight individuals making sustainable, innovative use of media (old and new) to foster participatory democracy and community.

Rm. 345
Seminar Title: 

Turn Organizational Needs Into Fundable Ideas, and Present Them In Competitive Proposals to Foundations and Corporations

 

Presenter:

Angela Johnson, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley 

1. Develop methods for writing more effective proposals.
2. Recognize issues and possible strategies for rethinking the allocation of their organization's resources budgeted for IT.
3. Learn about additional resources to assist them with their technology funding search.
4. Become vigilant about viewing all technology proposals as enhancers to you mission.

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Lunch Break

12:15 - 1:45 PM Open Forum



Rm. 345
Forum Topic: 

Teen Voices, New Media Creating and Learning with 21^st Century Skills 

Panel:

1:45 - 2:00 PM Award Presentation


Rm. 345

Presentation Description:

2:15 - 3:45 PM Sessions (K-12 In-School Track)




Rm. 315
Seminar Title: 
Integrating Media Literacy - What we can learn from "traditional" media literacy that can inform our work with 21st Century technologies?

 

Presenter:
Chris Sperry, Director of Curriculum and Staff Development, Project Look Sharp     

Seminar Description:
High school teacher and author, Chris Sperry, will share models, stories and insights from 30 years of integrating media analysis and production into his classes and through his work with Ithaca College’s k-12 media literacy initiative, Project Look Sharp. Chris will share both theoretical and practical models that use media decoding and 21st century tools to integrate critical thinking into the teaching of core subject area content and standards.  He will model lessons from Look Sharp’s free online curriculum kits including Media Construction of the Middle East, …Presidential Campaigns and…Global Warming. Chris is the winner of the 2005 National PTA and Cable Leaders in Learning Award for Media Literacy and 2008 National Council for the Social Studies Award for Global Understanding.
  

  

Rm. 325
Seminar Title: 
Media and Public Health... Changing Behavior Through Social Marketing and Media Creation  

Presenter:
Margaux Joffe, Multimedia Coordinator, Boston Public Health Commission
Stephanie Doyle, Health Policy Analyst, Div. of Violence Prevention, Boston Public Health Commission    

Seminar Description:
This seminar explores social marketing and media creation as ways to engage youth with key issues that affect their health. In 2009 The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) launched two groundbreaking social marketing campaigns aimed at changing behaviors of Boston youth. Not only were youth instrumental in the development of the campaign messaging, both campaigns employed non-traditional marketing strategies as well as social media to spread the message. This seminar will offer in depth look at the development and execution of the “Boston SexED” STI Prevention Campaign, as well as the “Live by Example” Violence Prevention campaign:

• Video contest on YouTube
• Creation of video PSA that aired on MTV, BET and FX
• Building a street team of youth to get the message out through street theater and word of mouth
• Alternative ways to engage youth through social media: Using a facebook page (www.facebook.com/BostonsexED) as a forum for teens to discuss sexual health, and include weekly polls, quizzes and disease and testing information.
• Integrating new media and social media with traditional media.

• A Youth Media Council working to advise campaign planning
• Grants of $10,000 given to 9 youth-serving community organizations for youth to create their own media projects 
• Developing campaigns core message from media projects created by youth
• Using Facebook to build a community of engaged youth

Rm. 335
Seminar Title: 

Media Literacy and Analysis as an Identity Guide During Adolescence 

Presenter:

Susan Owusu, Communications Program Director, Wheelock College

 

Seminar Description:

This workshop will look at the impact that commercial media has on self-image and how media literacy can be used to counter the negative effects and build a sense of efficacy in teens. The workshop will look at how to address gender identity issues and teaching and learning that allows teens to explore these and other issues.

Susan Owusu has lead workshops on empowering youth through media literacy and media consumption as an active and dynamic experience where youth develop identity and values to last a lifetime. Susan developed the YWCA’S Teen Voices program as part of her groundbreaking work in media and gender self image during adolescence. Susan is an instructor at Wheelock College.

Rm. 345
Seminar Title: 
Participatory Assessment for New and Traditional Media Practices

 

Presenter:
Jenna McWilliams, Indiana University Learning Sciences Program

 

Seminar Description:

Participatory assessment is a way of approaching assessment that fosters shared participation in new media practices, while also fostering the understanding that schools and teachers are accountable for achievement. This presentation will describe participatory assessment as was applied to the Teachers Strategy Guide, a curriculum developed by Project New Media Literacies. It will also describe how it currently is being applied in Indiana Universities Participatory Activities and Assessment Network. This network will develop participatory assessment for existing open-source new media learning activities and help teachers share accounts, experiences, evidence, and expertise.

 

Jenna McWilliams is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences program at Indiana University. She holds an MFA in English and was previously a curriculum designer at Project New Media Literacies and a college composition instructor.

3:45 - 4:00 PM Conference Wrap-Up