Empowering Citizens to Think Critically about Media Messages
Fifth Annual Media Literacy Week
Media Literacy is the Message: The Legacy of Marshall McLuhan
Events Calendar
Sunday, November 6
*Media Literacy Week Opening Session: Looking at Our Mediated Landscape
Time: 4- 6 p.m.
Location: St. Louis University / The Walter J. Ong, SJ, Center for Language, Media and Culture, St. Louis Room of Busch Memorial Center
Featured presentations: Lewis and Clark University scholar and poet, Jerry Harp, presents “Electronic Literacy: Ong and McLuhan in the Digital Age,” and Gateway Media Literacy Partners’ honors its Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Awardees.
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Monday, November 7
* Media Literacy in the K12 Classroom
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm;
Location: Cooperating School Districts, 1460 Craig Road, St. Louis, Mo 63146
Fee: $149 CSD member; $189 non-member (One Grad. Credit Available for an additional $60)
Do your students believe everything they see and hear on the Internet and other media communication? Our digital learners require critical thinking skills to be media literate. Using media to help build critical thinking and communication skills is a life long craft necessary for our 21st century learners. Participants will share instructional strategies that work and discussion will occur about accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media.
* Political Media Literacy: Deciphering our Political Commercials
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: STLCC-Meramec / Student Center Room 200
Student presentation by Mark Wilson, President of Student Government, and Robyn McGrade, President of Phi Theta Kappa
With the state of our political system these days people need to be able to educate themselves better on the choices on the ballots. This program will give participants the opportunity to view political advertisements and then analyze them in small groups. Afterward, the facts behind the topics of the advertisements will be presented to demonstrate the need for and the method of fact checking.
* If Marshall McLuhan Could See Us Now!
Time: Noon – 1:30 pm
Location: Webster University, Library Conference Room
Presented by the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis and Missouri Professional Communicators/ National Federation of Press Women, this panel features public relations, advertising, journalism and other communications professionals discussing the tremendous impact of new media on the message. McLuhan, who predicted a “global village” and the Internet, could not have imagined the extent to which these mediums have changed the delivery of, for example, news (Internet, cable TV, targeted newspapers, and print via notebook, laptop, cellphone, twitter …).
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Tuesday, November 8
* Digital Media Projects Using Pixie (preK-5 educators) FREE software
Time: 8:30-11:30 am/$75 CSD member; $89 non-member
Location: Cooperating School Districts, 1460 Craig Road, St. Louis, Mo 63146
Create cross-curricular projects in both print and digital formats, and then collaborate using Pixie 3. Pixie is an engaging; award winning, educational software for elementary students. Pixie combines user-friendly paint program with text options, clip art, voice recording, with standards-based curriculum activities. Learn how to develop podcasts, online storybooks, videos, and Flash animations.
* Presentations & Portfolios Using Share (6-12 educators) FREE software
Time: 12:30 – 3:30 pm/$75 CSD member; $89 non-member
Location: Cooperating School Districts, 1460 Craig Road, St. Louis, Mo 63146
Learn how Share is an amazing 21st Century Authoring tool. Share makes it easy to create interactive presentations, PDF and Flash files, and web sites. You will learn how to access templates for design and productivity. Whether you have wanted to learn how to create portfolios, webpages, and brochures or create path animation, this workshop is for you.
* Critical Understanding of Media Culture: A Conversation with Shirley Steinberg” – Virtual Interactive Presentation
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: St. Louis Community College Meramec, Library Confluence Room
Dr. Shirley Steinberg is Chair and Director of The Werklund Foundation Centre for Youth Leadership Education and Professor of Youth Studies at The University of Calgary. In addition, she is the Project Leader and Director of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy.
Dr. Steinberg is the author and editor of many books and articles in cultural studies, youth culture, and critical pedagogy, including the book Media Literacy: A Reader.
* McLuhan and the Concept of Social Space”- Coffee Conversations continues
Time: 3 – 5 pm
Location: Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Mo.
The Spellmann Center, Spellmann Leadership Room
Lindenwood University Professors Jill Falk, Michael Stein, Andrew Smith, Sue Tretter, Sarah L Noonan and Michael Carper continue celebrating the life and work of Marshall McLuhan with the last of two discussions and Q&A on McLuhan’s view of SOCIAL Space. Prof. Alan Meyers moderates.
* Engaging The Eye Generation: Helping Our Students Read and Understand Images – Important 21st Century Skills in Media & Visual Literacy **FREE** workshop and dinner open to all teachers
RSVP should be to jessicazbrown@gmlpstl.org
Time: 5:30 pm – 8 pm
Location: STLCC-Meramec / Student Center Room 200
Join nationally recognized media educator Frank W. Baker for his return visit, to teach this hands-on, interactive teacher workshop, designed to demonstrate how visual and media literacy fit into instruction. You will walk away with strategies and resources you can put to work immediately. This workshop would be of interest to: ELA, Social Studies, Health, Art, Humanities, School Library Media; and Technology teachers.
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Wednesday, November 9
* Health Literacy and Media Literacy: An Inextricable Relationship.
Time: 11:30AM-1:30PM
Location: Auditorium, Maryville University
Maryville University hosts a showing of a new documentary, Health Literacy: Missouri’s Prescription for Better Health. The screening will be introduced by Nick Butler, the director of community outreach for Health Literacy Missouri (HLM). The nonprofit headquartered in St. Louis works to improve health by closing the gap between patient skills and the demands of the healthcare system. A panel discussion will follow the screening, led by Barbara DeSanto, EdD, director of Maryville’s communication program. Chuck Gulas, PhD, dean of the School of Health Professions is co-hosting the event. The panel will talk about ways the public, healthcare providers and the media can work for greater health literacy.
The documentary screening and discussion on “Health Literacy and Media Literacy: An Inextricable Relationship” will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 in the Maryville University Auditorium. It is sponsored by the Maryville University School of Health Professions, Maryville’s Communication Program and Missouri Health Literacy.
*Why Every Student Wants to be a Pediatrician: Broadening Career Choices Through Media Literacy
Time: 7 – 8:30PM
Location: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus, Dunham Hall, Room 2039,
The presenters are Chantal Chandler, M.S. and Liz Reckker, M.Ed
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Thursday, November 10
* Advanced Discovery: IWB & Media Creation
Time: 8:30am – 3:30pm $149 CSD member; $189 non-member (One Grad. Credit Available for an additional $60)
Location: Cooperating School Districts, 1460 Craig Road, St. Louis, Mo 63146
This workshop is for dynamic educators who are enthusiastic about designing lesson activities to increase student engagement and participation. Come discover how DE streaming digital media resources can be used with your interactive white boards (IWB). Engage today’s learner by using images, videos, and audio files with your IWB lessons and by creating multimedia projects with your students. Discover ways to develop curriculum-based digital media projects and lessons with DE streaming resources. We will touch on copyright compliance issues, practice finding images and music, create voice-overs using SMART & Promethean IWB recorders, and the free download, Audacity
* Investigating Trends in College Media
Time: 11-noon
Location: STLCC – Meramec / Business Administration Room 105
Student journalists from The Montage student newspaper discuss changing trends in college media, including the rise of an online first, print second mentality, variations in design and innovative storytelling methods for college print and online publications
* Student Journalism Panel
Time: 11-noon
Location: STLCC-Meramec / Business Administration Room 105
* Visual Literacy: Breaking Down and Looking Closely at Art”
Time: 4:30 pm –5:30pm
Location: Washington University in St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art
Allison Taylor, Manager of Education Programs, takes participants on a visual literacy tour and engages them in a few visual literacy exercises.
RSVP should be to jessicazbrown@gmlpstl.org
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* Labor & the Media: Muzzled labor stories and Occupy Wall Street
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Location: Missouri History Museum, AT&T Foundation Multi-Purpose Room.
In the midst of local muzzled labor stories and Occupy Wall Street, for which labor has shown support, local labor-media experts discuss these controversies especially relating to the St. Louis area, and in their historical context. Join Edward Finkelstein, publisher, the Labor
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Friday, November 11
* Keynote Address Gender in Media: Changing the Status Quo
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Location: STLCC-Meramec / Student Center Room 200
Madeline Di Nonno,Executive Director of the Geena Davis Institution on Gender in Media, will present key findings and insight from the Institute latest research. The Institute is the leading resource for gender in media research, trends and education for the entertain industry and the public.
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Saturday, November 12
* Academic Symposium – John Knoll, Executive Director of Interfaith Partnership of St. Louis, moderator
Time: 9 -1 p.m.
Location: St. Louis University, Busch Student Center, Room 256
* Session 1 - 9 -10:15 - Free Lance Panel: Looking at the Mediated World
* Justin Kussman. (Webster University) “An Analysis of the use of Color and Affective Response in Oh Brother Where Art Thou”
* Michael Long (Webster University) “Odysseus on the Frontier: Classic Heroes, Cowboys, and American Myths in Apollo 13“
* Lisa Marcus (Webster University) “Dale Helmig: A Case of Injustice”
* Lee Ann Tapscott, (Webster University) “Comparative Analysis: Defining Film Director Guillermo del Toro as an Auteur”
* Liz Wolfson (Washington University) “The Evolution of Cooking on Television: Examining Julia Childs and Bobby Flay”
*Session 2 – 10:30-12 - Teacher/Scholar Panel: Media Literacy in Theory and Practice
* Prof. Don Corrigan . (Webster University) “McLuhan’s Media Extensions in the Digital Age”
* Prof. Eric Meyer. (Meramec Community College) “Optical Allusions: How Media Literacy Dramatically Enhances the Literature Classroom”
* Prof. Yupa Saisanian Na Ayudhya. (Webster University) “Using Media Literacy Approaches to Evaluate International Advertising for a Better and Deeper Understanding of Global Consumer Issues”
* Stella Artois 20th Annual St. Louis Film Festival
Film-Miss Representation - sponsored by Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc.
Time: 7:15 P.M.
Location: Landmark Film Theater, Plaza Frontenac
Panel afterwards with Madeline Di Nonno, Exec. Director, the Geena Davis Institute, Anne Bader, adjunct professor, School of Communications, Webster University and James Scott, professor, Film Studies, St. Louis University. Moderator: Kathy Corley, -Program Coordinator for Film Studies and Documentary Production, Webster University
