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On Monday June 24, 2007 area youth were given a chance to express their ideas about the media at the Youth Media Salon in the Millennium Hotel in Downtown St. Louis. They discussed what the media means to them, what it says about their culture, and how it affects them, personally. Adults were also invited and were able to tune in and check out what these youth were saying and gave a few opinions of their own. This meeting was part of Alliance for Media Literate America's annual National Media Education Conference and as well kick off St. Louis' first ever Media Literacy Education Week.
Media Literacy Education Week -- June 24-30, 2007
Several Media Literacy Education Week events were streamed LIVE over the Internet, and are available as PODCASTS.
The City of St. Louis and the Missouri Governor's office proclaimed "Media Literacy Education Week," June 24-30.
View the Proclamations here.
As a result of the on-going as well as numerous blossoming media literacy education efforts under way in our bi-state region, the Alliance For A Media Literate America (AMLA) chose St. Louis to be the site of its Fourth biennial National Media Education Conference for which Gateway Media Literacy Partners (GMLP) was the local host-committee, June 23-26, at the Millennium Hotel, downtown St. Louis. Click on the graphic to the left for more Conference details.
Podcasts of NMEC Keynote Speakers
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Sunday, June 24 - Renee Hobbs, Ph.D. is a highly acclaimed pioneer in the field of media literacy and a co-founder of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) -
Monday, June 25 - Henry Jenkins is the DeFlorz Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. He is one of the founders and directors of The Education Arcade and the principle investigator for the MIT-Microsoft Games-to-Teach Project, which is examining the educational potential of computer and video games.
The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University and RoundTrips Present
Rethinking the Digital: New Media Art and the Active Viewer
Date: October 16th, 2007
Times: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. CDT or 12 Noon to 1:00 p.m. CDT
Grade Levels: 9-12
Cost: FREE
As we spend more and more time in our daily lives with computers, websites, cell phones, television screens, and handheld devices, it is important to shed some light on how the rise of these technologies impacts our place in the world and how it can offer new possibilities for the creation and experience of art. Designed to stimulate critical thinking about such issues, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University is excited to offer its first distance-learning program this fall Rethinking the Digital: New Media Art and the Active Viewer. Linked to the new media art exhibition Window | Interface currently showing at the Museum and tied to Missouri Grade level Expectations (GLEs) and National Standards in Visual Arts and Technology, this experimental program challenges students, teachers, and schools to rethink ideas of art and learning in the digital age.
Join us live from the exhibition as students interact with Museum educators and curators through real-time, face-to-face videoconference interaction as well as interactive web streaming and television viewing. Engaging not only with artworks that use new technologies, but with the computer-based interface involved in distance learning itself, students will be challenged to consider the world of iPhones, Nintendo Wii, virtual reality, and computer screens in a very different way. By including a more in-depth look at selected artworks in the Window | Interface exhibition, this program provides students an important opportunity to make connections with new media art and the increasing significance of technology in our daily lives.
Connecting to the program is easy. To join us via videoconference, Internet web stream, or St. Louis area television, please read the enrollment information below. Â Advance enrollment is required for a videoconference connection and recommended for other viewing methods as well in order to receive the program preparatory materials, including a detailed agenda. Additional information on the exhibition and related curriculum standards are also included below. More details about the Kemper Art Museum and the Window | Interface exhibition, including related curriculum resources, can be found at http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu. To learn more about RoundTrips Interactive Video E-Learning, surf to http://www.roundtrips.org. Â
How to Enroll for this Program: Each program will be offered live via videoconference, Internet web streaming and broadcast programming.
1. Â To view as a Videoconference School Videoconference space for the program is limited to three schools per show. These students will have face-to-face interaction with the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum. Â To enroll as a videoconference school, contact Rebecca Polityka of Cooperating School Districts at rpolityka@csd.org. Once enrolled, teachers will receive the program's preparatory and evaluation materials.
2. Â To view via the Internet Viewing via the web is unlimited but enrollment is necessary to receive the program's preparatory and evaluation materials. Students viewing in this way can e-mail their questions during the program to roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us. To enroll your students for web viewing, contact RoundTrips at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us or 314-773-6934. Once enrolled, teachers will receive the program's preparatory and evaluation materials. To watch the program live via the web, surf your computer to www.roundtrips.org on the program day and click on the program link or surf directly to our web streaming provider at http://commonsvcg.oar.net/RoundTrips. Â Please note this web address is case sensitive. Â Since many schools limit streaming video through their firewalls, we recommend testing your ability to view the stream prior to the program by watching one of RoundTrips archived programs at www.roundtrips.org. Â We also recommend viewing the program live on one computer only and connecting that computer to a television or digital projector for classroom viewing. Â Should you have questions about this approach to viewing, please contact us.
3. To view via Cable Television The program will be shown live in the St. Louis metropolitan area on channel 22, Cooperating School District of St. Louis educational television channel. Students viewing in this way can e-mail their questions during the program to roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us. Viewing via cable television is unlimited but enrollment is necessary to receive the program preparatory and evaluation materials. To enroll your students for web or TV viewing, contact RoundTrips at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us or 314-773-6934. Once enrolled, teachers will receive the program's preparatory and evaluation materials. To view the show live on the program day, just turn on your TV to channel 22.
After its live presentation, the program will be archived at http://www.roundtrips.org for on-demand viewing available at any time. Â You can also obtain a DVD copy of the program by contacting RoundTrips at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us.
Exhibition Description:
Focusing on artworks from the 1960s to the present, Window | Interface explores the role of windows, screens, and digital interfaces in shaping our multi-sensory encounter with the world around us. The first section of the exhibition, “Window” brings together works of art that expand the function of the window and question its limitations as a mechanism for framing sight. The second section examines a range of multimedia installations, videos, and photographs. Representing different types of interfaces, many of these works are interactive and encourage us to explore the role of all of our senses in the aesthetic experience.
The artworks in this exhibition ask us to rethink what it means to experience the world, not just through sight, but through touch, hearing, and movement as well. Window | Interface thus invites us to think about how the window, the electronic screen, and the digital interface underscore the embodied character of human perception. It also asks us to consider how contemporary art engages the viewer in how we see and relate to our immediate environment.
Featured Missouri Grade Level Expectations (GLE):
GLE: FA 3: 1.A Aesthetics - Investigate the nature of art and discuss responses to artworks.
Grades 9-12: Discuss personal beliefs about the nature of art, define aesthetics as the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and value of art, discuss and develop answers to questions about art, such as: What is art? Why do responses vary? Who decides what makes an artwork special, valuable or good?
GLE: FA 3: 2.A Art Criticism - Analyze and evaluate art using art vocabulary.
Grades 9-12: With one or between multiple artworks: describe, analyze, and/or compare and contrast the use of elements and principles in the work, interpret the meaning of the work (subject, theme, symbolism, message communicated), and judge the work from various perspectives.
GLE: CA 5 Â 1.5, 1.7, 2.7 Media Messages - Develop and apply effective skills and strategies to analyze and evaluate visual media. (e.g., videos, pictures, web-sites, and artwork) Grades 9-12: Analyze, describe and evaluate the elements of messages projected in various media.
Featured National Standards (Visual Arts):
NA-VA.9-12.3 Choosing and Evaluating a Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas
Students reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture.
NA-VA.9-12.5 Reflecting Upon and Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of the Work of Others
Students correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.
NA-VA.9-12.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other Disciplines
Students compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis.
Featured National Standards (Technology):
NT.K-12.2 Social, Ethical, and Human Issues
Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
Charles Klotzer
Co-Founder and Co-Owner
St. Louis Journalism Review
Recipient of Gateway Media Literacy Partner's Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Award
Rose Klotzer
Co-Founder and Co-Owner
St. Louis Journalism Review
Recipient of Gateway Media Literacy Partner's Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Award