Conference: Literacy in a Media Age

10/08/03

Faculty and students are invited to attend selected workshops and keynote addresses at the upcoming conference, "Literacy in a Media Age" The conference will be held October 16-17 here at Ithaca College and will be free of charge.

Workshops of general interest include: Critical Thinking and the News; Judging Credibility on the Internet; Movie Mentors: Teaching and Learning with Film; and Visual Literacy (including "Subliminal" Messages).

Thursday evening's keynote address by internationally acclaimed speaker David Considine, "The New Basic: Media Literacy, from Classroom to Living Room," is free and open to the general public.

Conference workshops and events that are open to IC faculty and students include:

• Opening Keynote: "Reading Media: The New Literacy"
  Faith Rogow, president, Alliance for a Media Literate America
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 9:45-10:15 am (Clark Lounge)
  
• Evening Keynote: "The New Basic: Media Literacy, from Classroom to Living Room"
  David Considine, author of Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 8:00-9:15 p.m. (Clark Lounge)
  
• Workshop: "Separating Fact from Fiction: Judging Credibility on the Internet"
  Roger Sevilla, Project Look Sharp/Ithaca City School District
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m. (Friends 110)
  (or) Friday, Oct. 17, 10:30 a.m.-noon (Friends 110)
  
• Workshop: "Movie Mentors: Teaching and Learning with Film"
  David Considine, author of Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m. (Clark Lounge)
  
• Workshop: "Using Media Literacy in Health Prevention and Consumer Education"
  Amy Rand, Reality Check, and Marcie Wyant, Ithaca City School District
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m. (Klingenstein Lounge)
  
• Workshop: "Critical Thinking and the News"
  Chris Sperry, Project Look Sharp, author of Media Construction of War
  Friday, Oct. 17, 8:45-10:15 a.m. (Clark Lounge)
  
• Workshop: "Health and Body Image Issues in K-5 Education"
  Jane Koestler, Ithaca City School District, and Cyndy Scheibe, Department of Psychology, Ithaca College and Project Look Sharp
  Friday, Oct. 17, 8:45-10:15 a.m. (Klingenstein Lounge)
  
• Workshop: "Integrating Media Literacy into K-12 Social Studies"
  Chris Sperry, Project Look Sharp, author of Media Construction of War
  Friday, Oct. 17, 10:30 a.m.-noon (Clark Lounge)
  
• Workshop: "Visual Literacy"
  Faith Rogow, president, Alliance for a Media Literate America, and Cyndy Scheibe, Project Look Sharp, Department of Psychology, Ithaca College
  Friday, Oct. 17, 10:30 a.m.-noon (Klingenstein Lounge)

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