Speaker Bios

Carol Arcus: Editor, AML Online Newsletter

speaker photo Profession:
Teacher

Title:
Editor, AML Online Newsletter

Contact:
Phone: (905) 889-3050 or (905) 479-2787, ext. 317, vm 618
Fax: (905) 479-1539
Email: carcus@rogers.com

Speaking Topics:
Pop culture in the Classroom; Internet Literacy in the Secondary Classroom; Getting Started in Media Education; Instructional Strategies and the Media Classroom

Past speaking engagements (Selected):

  • 2002 – The Role of Media Literacy and Healthy Sexuality – Guelph Conference on Healthy Sexuality

  • September 2001 – AML Event  - OISE/UT – Media Coverage of 911

  • August 2001 – Internet technology presentation – CAMEO conference (Canadian Association of Media Education Organizations)

  • May 2000 – Summit 2000 – Workshop – Teaching Audience and Pop Culture at the Secondary Level (ethnography)

 Resources Produced (selected list):
  • 2002 – Curriculum writing for AQ Media Literacy (teachers) for Ontario College of Teachers

  • 1999 – TVOntario video: Teaching Media in the Grade 9 English Classroom (new curriculum)

  • 1998 – curriculum writing for new English curriculum, Ontario Ministry of Education

  • 1997 - Early Childhood/Teen Telecommunications Project, U of Washington, USA: chapter on Teaching Popular Music to Teens

Willing to Speak:
Anywhere in Canada; internationally

Available for:
Workshop facilitation; speaking engagements; interviews; consulting; media interviews.

Fee:
Negotiable

Languange:
English, French

Biography:
Carol Arcus is a teacher and editor of the AML’s online Newsletter. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of AML since 1994.

Carol has been teaching English and Media Studies at Unionville High School in York Region District School Board, Ontario, for 13 years. She took a leave to Paris, France between 2002 and 2005.