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National Media Education Week Videoconference
November 24, 2006
MEDIA EDUCATION: MAKING IT HAPPEN
Welcome to the National Media Education Week Videoconference Guideline!
This guideline will help you prepare for and participate in the November 24 Videoconference.
You might wish to participate in the conference by logging in and viewing the proceedings, or you might offer to contribute to the Videoconference. Either way, you are welcome!
Spectator participation:
If you would like to be a spectator, plan to log in to the conference on November 24 (URL TBA). You will need a high-speed internet connection and a computer that can display video and audio. You might want to arrange for a projector if the whole class is viewing. A timetable will be provided on www.aml.ca nearer to the videoconference date.
Contributor participation:
Begin documenting your participation now. You might keep a log of your plans and discussions. You might record, on audio or video, class discussions and preparations for the presentation.
As part of your participation, we are asking participants--teachers and students--to consider 5 key questions:
• What are your goals for your media course?
• What activities are you involved in?
• What are you learning?
• What would you like to do?
• What support or resources do you need in order to do things better?
You will have between 15 and 20 minutes for your presentation, with between 5 and 10 minutes for discussions with other Videoconference participants. Your presentation might be live, or it can be pre-recorded, then followed with a live discussion. If it is pre-recorded, plan to send it to Neil.Andersen@tel.tdsb.on.ca before November 17.
Please note: space in the Videoconference is limited, so it is possible that not everyone who wishes to present will have the opportunity to do so. Also, all presentation content—teacher and student--must be original. The Videoconference is not intended to be a festival of student work, but rather a festival of student learning.
Plans are emerging to provide additional value to the media education community by recording the Videoconference proceedings and making them available to schools for discussion and learning after November 24. That means that your presentation will become the property of the Association for Media Literacy (AML). You will be required to give permission for the use of your presentation and guarantee that all music, images and sounds in your presentation are original, non-copyrighted information. Any copyrighted music, images and sounds are therefore inappropriate and cannot be included.
Materials that ARE appropriate might include short documentaries showing learning activities and student-made media products, along with student explanations of what they have learned from their activities.
Because short discussions will follow each presentation, students and teachers should be prepared to answer questions about their learning as well as ask questions of other presenters.
The National Media Education Week Videoconference is one of many media education activities planned for the week of November 20, 2006. For information on other National Media Education Week activities, visit www.aml.ca, www.media-awareness.caor www.ctf-fce.ca/en/
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