NMEC wrap up Thursday, June 28, 2007
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Tech PD.Tags: media literacy, National Media Education Conference
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The National Media Education Conference 2007 wrapped up Wednesday, though some events are continuing in St. Louis until the end of the week (see a previous blog entry). Ruth and Stephanie presented Sunday afternoon – “Online ‘Street Smarts:’ Being Legal, Literate and Secure.” They report the session went very well.They also attended several sessions over the next few days- they split up to get more covered. On Sunday, I joined them downtown and worked the CSD exhibit booth. I answered questions on CSD and the VLC from people all over the place- Georiga, Oregon, California… there was a very diverse crowd at the conference, and many, many topics were covered.I returned on Monday to work the booth and stayed for a few sessions: “The Intersection of Structural Racism Analysis and Media Literacy,” ”Teens, Technology and Drugs,” and for a keynote, which had to be delivered over DVD (the presenter had a family emergency) entitled “New Media, New Literacies: Why Johnny Can’t Program.” The first two I attended because New Links to New Learning offers two series of videoconferences which seemed to fit the session topics- we have the Racial Dialogs (series) and Mental Health (series- various topics covered).We saw some familiar faces at the conference and made new acquaintances, including the Singapore group who visited us yesterday. The conference will be in Detriot next, though not until 2009. Keep it in mind!
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Hi Rebecca, Stephanie and Ruth ! So honoured that the “Singapore group” was mentioned in this entry! We enjoyed the conference tremendously and the visit to CSD was a nice way to end our leasrning journey in St Louis. You guys were such great hosts and I personally learnt a lot from the visit. Here’s to a continuing fruitful collaboration!
It is great to hear from you and we also are looking forward to future partnerships. Keep us updated on the videoconferencing front! I have a v/c contact here in the US who actually spent grades 9-12 in Singapore- she would like to collaborate as well!