Submission Deadline: November 15, 2006
This year, we’d like to continue to bridge the gap between the K-12 environment and college. We hope to foster discussions about the way technology is being integrated into the K-12 curriculum and how that creates certain expectations at the college level. We also hope to foster discussions about what skills students need to continue to develop at the college level and how technology can contribute to that development.
Our theme this year is multiliteracies, the idea of developing literacy across various kinds of media including video, audio, web sites, and text. We hope that people with share theories behind teaching interpretation of multiple media, activities that have worked well in the classroom, or other work they have done to foster multiliteracy in their students. We especially want to think about reimagining technology not as a tool but as an aspect of the learning environment that requires us to rethink how and what we teach.
Proposals might encompass the following:
- Assignments for teaching multiliteracy.
- Workshops on using the tools to develop multiliteracy.
- What does it mean to be multiliterate?
- Are students already multiliterate? Don't they already multitask, use iPods, and blog?
- Theory behind multiliteracy.
- Institutional issues–DOPA, FERPA, digital divide.
- How does web 2.0 and networked learning fit into a multiliterate model?
The conference will be held on February 22 and 23rd, 2007 at Drexel University. On February 22nd, we will have a half-day of hands-on workshops. We invite proposals for these workshops. If you have developed software or use a technological tool in your work that you find particularly useful and want to show others how it works, please submit your ideas. On the 23rd, we’ll have our keynote speaker as well as presentations and discussions. The submission deadline for workshops or presentations/discussions is November 15. We ask for a brief description and preferred format. Complete panels may also be submitted. Submit your proposal here or email it to me at lblanken [at] brynmawr [dot] edu.