List of Workshop Presenters
Northeast Media Literacy Conference
University of Connecticut
April 11, 2008

 

Rob Williams -
An Open Dialogue: Practicing Media Education in the 21st Century - the Promise and Peril of An Emerging Pedagogy

Dr. Jack Fong -
Designer Food: Fads, Myths and Facts of Nutrition Literacy

Andrea Quijada -
Who Defines Community?: Latinos, Media, and Advertising

Bobbie Eisenstock -
You Are What You Post: Media Literacy Strategies and Your Net Reputation

Mike Gange -
Northern Onions: Looking at the Layers of Several Canadian Ads

Elizabeth Rowell -
Deconstructing Disinformation in the Media about Contemporary American Indians

Michele Haiken -
Be a Cyber Teacher: Meeting Our Students’ Media Literacy Needs Through WebQuests, Podcasts, Wikis, and EBlogs

Phil Hopkins -
Mass Moralizing: Building and Selling Moral Identities

Camille Fisher -
The Music of Popular Culture: Making Media Literacy “Cool”

Bill Farr -
Mass Media and Critical Literacy: Building Understanding through Meaningful Conversations

Dr. Kathleen Clarke-Pearson/Dr. Gil Fuld -
American Academy of Pediatrics and the New Media Literacies

Catron Allred -
Medialogo: Using Video Dialogue to Cross Social Boundaries in Recife, Brazil

Anna Van Someren -
Medium, Messages, and Mashups: Integrating Learning Exemplars into Curriculum and After School Programs

Kendra Olson Hodgson -
Beyond Body Image: Integrating Media Education & Yoga to Help Young People Know Themselves from the Inside Out

James Valastro -
Use Video Production and Media Literacy To Make Effective Media With Youth (in minutes!)

Sherri Culver -
Poof! You’re 8 Again: Trends in Children’s Mass Media

Kathy Hackett -
Can You Hear Me Now? Young Children, Media Influences, and Learning in the Traditional Classroom

Melda Yildiz -
Web 2.0: Redefining Literacy in K-12 Curriculum

Heather Pease -
Predatory Food Marketing: Profiting on Childhood Obesity

Phil Mihailidis –
Transforming Global Media Literacy Education: The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change