SchoolDocs Agenda
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SCHOOLDOCS:
The Power of the Documentary to Engage Students and Enrich the 21st-Century Classroom
Presented by: AFI SILVER Screen Education as a special strand of the Silverdocs International Documentary Conference
All 2010 SchoolDocs sessions and registration takes place at Montgomery College/Takoma Park Campus. Your starting point should be the registration desk located at the Conference Hub in the Performing Arts Center at 7995 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910 (a 15-minute walk or short shuttle bus ride from the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center). Questions? Ask at the Conference Desk.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
REGISTRATION OPEN
8:30-9:30 a.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
9:15-9:30 a.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
Ray Barry, director, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Matt Boratenski, producer, SchoolDocs
9:30-10:15 a.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
SCHOOLDOCS KEYNOTE ADDRESS with Karen Cator, director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
21st-century students are different. With different demands for their attention, mobile technologies and social networks, their sophistication comes earlier—with a different skill set. There is a silver lining: We can teach this more effectively, more efficiently, more engagingly and make the experience of learning more personal. We have the technology! Media have evolved and education must evolve to match. The National Education Technology Plan draft, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology informs and inspires action.
10:30 a.m.-Noon Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
TEACHING FILMMAKING, TEACHING JUSTICE: CONNECTING STUDENTS TO THE GREATER COMMUNITY
The University of Alabama–Birmingham works with students across the arts and sciences who have never picked up a camera for anything more serious than a snapshot. They use a collaborative critique process to hone their eye and encourage a community co-authorship process to help them shape their stories. This session will give participants a look at new pedagogy on student civic engagement and techniques for introducing and incorporating filmmaking in all subjects.
PRESENTER
Michele Forman, co-director, University of Alabama, Birmingham Digital Community Studies Program
Simon de Swardt from Zimbabwe and Indrani Kopal from Malaysia, International Emerging Filmmaker Fellows from the Documentary Center, George Washington University
Noon-3:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
LUNCH AVAILABLE: TAKE A BREAK!
Make some new friends and enjoy takeout available for purchase from the Conference Concession Stand.
1:00-2:30 p.m. Performing Arts Center Classroom 201
Reel learning in the classroom: turning curriculum into dynamic student movies
This hands-on workshop will take participants step by step through the process of developing a specific item of curriculum into a story ready to create as a classroom film. Brainstorming strategies and organizational tools will be presented, as well as fundamental classroom filmmaking tips that will aid participants in efficiently producing their own student-driven media.
PRESENTERS
Agatha Jenkins, education outreach specialist, MHz Networks
Harry Costner, Exemplary Projects Teacher from Gunston Middle School in Arlington, VA
3:30-5:00 p.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
Race and Representation in Films Used in the Classroom
The goal of this workshop is to present approaches to using documentary film to support a variety of curricular goals as well as promote a dialogue on issues of race, identity and representation. Designed for high school teachers using a selection of documentary films produced for public television, this workshop will cover topics including stereotyping, authenticity and identity.
PRESENTERS
Stephen Gong, executive director, Center for Asian American Media
Shirley Sneve, executive director, Native American Public Telecommunications
Sponsored by CAAM
5:00-7:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
An important part of every Festival and Conference is the opportunity to build strategic relationships. Touch base with Conference staff for help with introductions.
Friday, June 25
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
REGISTRATION OPEN
8:30-9:15 a.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
9:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
Moving Images = Making Connections: Documentary Film as Nonfiction Essay with “AS WE FORGIVE”
Centering on the documentary film As We Forgive, Renee Shea will discuss strategies to analyze documentary film as nonfiction essay. Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Student Documentary, director Laura Waters Hinson depicts the reconciliation efforts in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Shea will examine the specific ways Hinson presents her perspective by showing several clips from the film, examining the website asweforgivemovie.com, describing her recent experience teaching it and offering examples of student writing. Finally, participants will reflect on this film as a model for documentary film as a vehicle to promote critical thinking and writing.
PRESENTER
Dr. Renee Shea, Bowie State University; editor of AP® English Language and Composition Curriculum Module: Using Documentary Film as an Introduction to Rhetoric and Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
10:45-11:50 a.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
DOCUMENTARY FILM AND CURRICULUM DESIGN with John Golden
Using the Understanding by Design approach to curriculum development, we will put documentary film at the center of our work in the classroom. After looking at models of previously developed units, teachers will work collaboratively to design a unit based on a documentary film that they watched during SilverDocs and that would be an appropriate film for their students. The teachers will present the drafts of their units and describe their plans for further development. This collaboration will continue as the presenter will create an interactive site where teachers can continue to develop, share, and revise their units throughout the following school year.
PRESENTER
John Golden, curriculum specialist for high school Language Arts in Portland, Oregon and the author of Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom (NCTE, 2001) and Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts (NCTE, 2006). John has delivered presentations and led workshops around the country in order to help teachers use film actively in the classroom as a way for students to improve their reading, analytical and critical thinking skills.
Noon-1:15 p.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
Technology of the Future in Education: Cellphones, iPads, Blogging, oh my!
A distinguished panel of education experts will highlight many of the challenges that face the 21st-century educator who is confronted by students literate in the world of texting, blogging and filmmaking.
MODERATOR
Cheryl Garnette, director Technology in Education Program, US Department of Education
PRESENTERS
Renee Hobbs, Ed.D. professor and founder of the Media Education Lab, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media, Temple University
David Byer, senior manager, education policy, Apple Inc.
Lalita Krishna, founder, Breakout Media
Sponsored by Thinkport
Noon – 3:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
LUNCH AVAILABLE: TAKE A BREAK!
Make some new friends and enjoy takeout available for purchase from the Conference Concession Stand.
2:50-4:10 p.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
Where to Get Web Content Fast and Ready for Your Lessons
There has never been more award-winning and innovative content on the Web available for use in the classroom. How does a teacher wade through the sites for the best materials? Representatives from an array of content and teacher resource providers will guide teachers through the latest innovations their websites have to offer.
MODERATOR
Dr. Donald Bundy, lead specialist, school health and nutrition, World Bank
PRESENTERS
Stephen Gong, executive director, Center for Asian American Media
Liana Vitali, program coordinator, Wildscreen, USA
Al Letson, host, STATE OF THE RE:UNION
Mark Farkas, producer, C-SPAN
Jeanie Vink, vice president of production and development, executive producer, Discovery Studios
Lisa O’Brien, director of content management, Discovery Education
Sponsored by Thinkport
4:20-5:30 p.m. Nursing Center Lecture Room 122
Fair Use, Practice Makes Perfect
Teachers and students may have the best intentions, but whose responsibility is it to teach about the rights to the music and film clips used in those projects? What are a teacher’s legal rights in using film and music clips to teach with? Can you put those clips online? What happens when students use film and music clips in their work? What is public domain? What’s your legal liability and responsibility if it’s your assignment?
MODERATOR
Carleton Jackson, librarian, Nonprint Media Services, University of Maryland Libraries
PRESENTERS
Pat Aufderheide, professor and director, Center for Social Media, American University, School of Communication
Devin Cheema, director, Legal and Business Affairs for Experius Academy
Peter Jaszi, professor of law, American University
Jonathan Band, policybandwidth
5:00-7:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
An important part of every Festival and Conference is the opportunity build strategic relationships. Touch base with Conference staff for help with introductions.
Catering provided by Fresh Start
Saturday, June 26
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
REGISTRATION OPEN
9:00-10:00 a.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
9:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Performing Arts Center Theater 2
Making a Smaller World: Youth Voices Speak Up
Young filmmakers representing the scope of film-oriented programs from all over the world will discuss their projects from inspiration to fulfillment—unfiltered by adults. At this panel they will screen their films and share their stories of how filmmaking has changed their lives and their communities.
MODERATOR
Hawa Touré , youth organizer, Gandhi Brigade
PRESENTERS
Bryan DeLeon, director, A CRECER COMO UNA PERSONA
Slater Jewell-Kemker, director, AN INCONVENIENT YOUTH
Namgyal Trichen, director, MY COUNTRY IS TIBET
Cindy Roman and Benjamin Andino, directors JOVANES PA’LANTE
Regina Nicholson, director, GLIMPSE OF HORIZON, AFI TEENDOCS winner Ja’Mesha Hagins, director, REEL LIVES: ANTHONY, AFI TEENDOCS winner
Joshua Zucker, WLADEK (WILLY), AFI TEENDOCS winner
Noon-3:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Lobby
Youth Media Networking Luncheon
SchoolDocs celebrates the accomplishments of our talented group of emerging media artists.
1:30-3:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center Classroom
workshop - It’s a Team Effort: Filmmaking in the 21st-Century Classroom
Using the vehicle of heroism, media arts educator Wendy Milette and MY HERO student reporter Slater Jewell Kemker will review the process of identifying heroes and creating a powerful hero story with digital media. In this workshop participants will explore the elements of award-winning hero films, get hands-on experience with online production resources and discover exhibition opportunities for students’ works. Throughout the presentation, Wendy and Slater will demonstrate the powerful effect of producing hero-themed short films in enabling students to recognize the very character qualities they value and their own potential to overcome obstacles and achieve their dreams to make a difference in their school, community and the world.
PRESENTERS
Slater Jewell-Kemker, student filmmaker, MyHero Project
Wendy Milette, media arts educator, MyHero Project
3:15-5:15 p.m. Performing Arts Center Theater 2
Come see a screening of a new documentary film featuring the stories of students who compete for the Intel Science Search Award. Screening to be followed by discussion with the film's director, students and stars from the film.
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