National Media Education Conference -- St.Louis, MO

"iPods, Blogs and Beyond: Evolving Media Literacy for the 21st Century,"
June 2007 National Media Education Conference and Research Summit.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Online registration is now available for the biennial National Media Education Conference & first-ever Media Literacy Education
Research Summit,hosted by the AMLA.

The Early Bird price of $295 for AMLA members and $375 for non-members is good until May 1.

Attendees include teachers, education researchers, public health professionals, youth workers, technology experts and media producers.

This year's theme is iPods, Blogs, and Beyond: Evolving Media Literacy for the 21st Century.

Workshops include:
· Using Wiki Writing to Foster Critical Analysis of the Media

· Getting 21st-Century Critical Thinking into the Curriculum

· The iPod History Challenge: Using Today's Multimedia to Make Learning Come to Life for Students

· Using Blogs, Podcasts and PDAs: The Search for Communification in the Classroom

Open a PDF file of all 75 workshops, screenings and events, or read biographies of the outstanding keynote speakers, Robin Blake, Renee Hobbs, Douglas Rushkoff and Henry Jenkins.


MEDIA LITERACY LUMINARIES SET TO SPEAK
Renee Hobbs, Douglas Rushkoff, Henry Jenkins and Robin Blake have been named keynote speakers for the 2007 National Media Education Conference in St. Louis this summer.

Renee Hobbs, Ph.D. is a highly acclaimed pioneer in the field of media literacy and a co-founder of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA). She has produced media literacy videos, such as "Tuning in to Media" which was awarded a Parent's Choice Award in 1995, and "Know TV," which won the 1995 Golden Cable ACE Award for public service initiatives in the cable industry. She has also authored several books, including Elements of Language, the only secondary language arts series in the United States to include a comprehensive approach to integrating media literacy, and Reading the Media in High School: Media Literacy in High School English, which will be available in March 2007. Hobbs is an Associate Professor of Communication at Temple University and the director of the university's Media Education Lab.

Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian. He wrote and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries, The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, and The Persuaders, which examine the tactics of marketers and their impact on society. He was the winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, and he has written 10 best-selling books, including Cyber Media, Playing the Future, and Coercion, winner of the 2002 Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff founded the Narrative Lab at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and he lectures at conferences and universities worldwide about media, art, society and change.

Robin Blake is manager of the Media Literacy Team at the Office of Communications (OfCom), the independent regulator for the United Kingdom's communications industries. Blake is an internationally known expert on media literacy research and strategies. He has spearheaded OfCom's prioritization of media literacy research, which has resulted in a massive study of uses of and attitudes toward media in the UK. Blake has served as the programs manager for Britain's Independent Television Commission, and he is coauthor of Media Literacy for Adults - Why it Matters.

Henry Jenkins is the DeFlorz Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. He is one of the founders and directors of The Education Arcade and the principle investigator for the MIT-Microsoft Games-to-Teach project, which is examining the educational potential of computer and video games. Jenkins writes two monthly columns, "The Digital Renaissance," for Technology Review Online and "Applied Game Theory" for Computer Games magazine. Jenkins has published six books and more than 50 essays on popular culture. His books include “Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture” (coauthor), “From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games” (coeditor) and “The Children's Cultural Reader” (editor).

Check out http://www.amlainfo.org/nmec2007 to learn more.