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Events Calendar Archive - 2007 In 2007 National Media Education Week took place November 5th - 9th. Here is a listing of some of the media education events and activities that took place that year. October 2007 October 18, 2007 - London, ON - Internet Safety Workshop for Families London Public Library (LPL) is hosting Internet Safety Workshop for Families. Do you and your family use the internet safely? Do you know the risks? Join the LPL to hear the latest tips and suggestions on how best to protect yourself online. Cost: Free. Contact: London Public Library October 18, 2007 - Brussels, ON - Parenting the Net Generation Brussels Mennonite Church and Rural Response for Healthy Children welcomes parents, grandparents and caregivers to attend the Parenting the Net Generation workshop and develop skills to guide their family's Internet use, topics include:
Contact: Rural Response for Healthy Children www.rrhc.on.ca/ October 19-21, 2007 - Montreal, QC - ReDefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio Conference CKUT 90.3 FM presents a free public conference entitled ReDefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio at McGill University in Montreal. The conference will include a keynote presentation and two days of workshops and panels. Events kick off on Friday, October 19 at 7pm with a keynote presentation by Amy Goodman, host and producer of the award-winning, New-York based independent news program, Democracy Now! Contact: music@ckut.ca; http://www.ckut.ca/redefiningmedia.php October 19, 2007 - Montreal, QC – Change the Future! Citizen Engagement via Media and the Web On October 19th CITIZENshift will be officially launching their NEWLY revamped Web site during the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) at the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal. Join this collective media-jam by logging on to the site and sharing your opinions, art and media. CITIZENshift is a National Film Board of Canada Web site dedicated to citizen engagement and social change. Point your browser to http://citizenshift.org/ for unique content from active citizens, independent filmmakers and multimedia artists. Voice your opinion or contribute creatively. Contact: Citizenshift October 20, 2007 – Toronto, ON – Rethinking Media Literacy Practices for the K-10 Classroom The Toronto Reading Council hosts, Rethinking Media Literacy Practices for the K-10 Classroom, an interactive conference for teachers of grades K to 10. Presentations and workshops at the conference include:
October 20, 2007 - Osoyoos, BC - Communities for Kids Conference Concerned Children's Advertisers will present a workshop on children
and media. Using the award-winning public service messages produced by
Concerned Children's Advertisers, participants will receive lesson plans
and tips, tools and strategies on how to help children watch carefully,
think critically and be media wise. October 22-28, 2007 - Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver - Get Animated! October 28 is World Animation Day. To mark the occasion, the National
Film Board of Canada will present Get Animated! with screenings of recent
films, fascinating workshops, and a chance to meet filmmakers and discover
animation in all its forms. Free activities are taking place in Moncton,
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. October 24, 2007 - London, ON - Facebook and MySpace.com London Public Library presents an information session entitled Facebook
and MySpace.com. Come and explore the phenomenon of Social Networking
Sites - what is available, how to use them and some precautions to use
them safely. Cost: Free. Contact: London
Public Library Web site: http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/node/185 October 27, 2007 - Peterborough, ON - Cyber Bullying: Encouraging ethical online behaviour Media Awareness Network presents Cyber Bullying: Encouraging ethical online behaviour as the keynote speech at the conference Safe and Successful Students in the Twenty-first Century hosted by the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. The presentation offers strategies for educators on how to help young people develop responsible online behaviour and strike a balance between freedom of expression and creating an environment in which children feel free from harassment. Contact: Sonia Wilson October 27, 2007 - Peterborough, ON - Parenting the Net Generation Workshop Media Awareness Network presents an information session on the topic of Internet safety at the conference Safe and Successful Students in the Twenty-first Century hosted by the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. Contact: Sonia Wilson October 28, 2007 – Winnipeg, MB – Freeze Frame at Get Animated! October 28 is World Animation Day! Want to learn more about animation and how it¹s made? As part of the National Film Board’s Get Animated, Freeze Frame will host an animation table at Cinematheque on Sunday October 28 between 2- 4pm. Come join Freeze Frame for an exciting afternoon of hands-on animation with Education Coordinator Justin Ouimet.
November 1 - 4, 2007 — Edmonton, AB - 26th Edmonton Global Visions Documentary Film Festival Inspired by Gandhi's words, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world," this year's documentaries at the Edmonton Global Visions Documentary Film Festival will explore opportunities for individuals in Canada and around the world to embark upon actions that can make a difference. For more details: www.globalvisionsfestival.com. November 2, 2007 – Calgary, AB - TRUE YOUth awareness launch TRUE YOUth is a grassroots marketing campaign. Last summer they recruited young people to participate in the Youth Media Advisory Group (YMAG). The YMAG the "I just want to say something contest", in which they challenged young people to submit entries to break down stereotypes and promote positive images of youth. Over the summer, the winners partook in an internship with Focus Consulting to professionally produce their own PSAs. On Friday, TRUE YOUth will be launching the PSAs and featuring the amazing work of the Youth Media Advisory Group. The electronic and print PSAs will be playing at Cineplex Odeon theatres for a five week period. Contact: Penny Morelyle November 2-3, 2007 – Winnipeg, MB – Global Justice Film Festival The purpose of the Global Justice Film Festival is to call together people who are curious about and/or committed to the care of creation an the necessity for global peace and justice; and to engage them in a dialogue and information sharing through the use of films, displays and print information. The Global Justice Film Festival features films from the ‘Travelling World Community Film Festival,’ a project of the World Community Development Education Society. Web site: www.globaljusticefilmfestival.ca. November 5, 2007 – Ottawa, ON – National Media Education Week 2007, Opening Ceremonies Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation are pleased to invite you to the opening ceremonies for National Media Education Week 2007. In recognition of the week, there will be a launch of a new French-language “e-Parenting” online tutorial – Devenir e-Parent: un tutoriel pour suivre vos enfants en ligne. St-Laurent Public Library, 515 Côté street, Ottawa. (10:00-10:20 AM: Ceremony, 10:20-11:00 AM: Demonstration and refreshments) Contact: Media Awareness Network November 5 – June 14, 2007 – Ottawa, ON – Show What You Know Media Literacy Contest (National) Hey kids…create a multi-media project on sustainable livelihoods and win prizes. A sustainable livelihood is having the skills, knowledge, resources that will enable families to have an income which will sustain them through the ebbs and flows of life – allowing them to have assets and savings to manage emergencies and crises that they encounter, such as illness in the family. The contest is hosted by the CHF (formerly Canadian Hunger Foundation). Your final submission will explore the theme of sustainable livelihoods in the regions serviced by CHF which include Ghana, Vietnam or Zimbabwe. You will decide which media you will use to express your ideas. Creativity counts, so get your thinking caps on and start producing! Web site: http://www.chf-partners.ca/medialiteracy/medialiteracy/education/show-what-you-know/ Contact: Sandra Kiviaho November 5-9, 2007 – Toronto, ON – Youth Generated Media Inspired by National Media Education Week, CITIZENShift and GlobalAware are inviting uploads of youth generated media to the CITIZENShift Web site. Using the power of film and photography along with Web based tools such as blogs and podcasts, CITIZENShift engages people to explore key social issues and to be a part of an ever growing online community. Similarly, GlobalAware uses photography in the forms of buttons, posters and postcards to engage individuals in social justice and environmental issues. User upload is a great new feature on CITIZENShift’s newly revamped site. By uploading your creative work to CitizenShift, links and sparks can be jump-started to create connections and build community. Please visit http://citizen.nfb.ca and click Future of CITIZENShift, this will take you to the new beta (test) site where you can share your media. So be sure to upload your media in time for Media Education Week and stay tuned for more related events! Contact: citizen@nfb.ca. November 6, 2007 – Toronto, ON – Your Voice - Is the media the message? Getting kids to think critically Your Voice, live Tuesdays at 1 pm ET at tvoparents.com, is an online
interactive parenting show. The show provides expert, real-time advice
on how parents and caregivers can help their kids navigate the issues
they face at school. November 5, 2007 - Calgary, AB - Cyber Bullying: Encouraging ethical online behaviour Media Awareness Network presents Cyber Bullying: Encouraging ethical online behaviour at the Safe Schools Conference hosted by the Alberta Association of School Resource Officers. The workshop explores the pervasiveness of online bullying, why the Internet is such an effective tool for harassment, and the role of the victim, perpetrator and bystander in cyberspace. November 5, 2007 - Calgary, AB - Alberta Association of School Resources Concerned Children's Advertisers will present a keynote on children and
media. Using the award-winning public service messages produced by Concerned
Children's Advertisers, participants will receive lesson plans and tips,
tools and strategies on how to help children watch carefully, think critically
and be media wise. November 5, 2007 –Guelph, ON - Launch of the Media Education Project This year’s National Media Education Week celebrates the launch of the Media Education Project – www.mediaeducationproject.ca. Here you’ll find links to practical tools and resources geared to educators studying and working with media in K-12 classrooms. You’ll also be able to share your own resources, and borrow and adapt what others have shared to suit your own classroom use. Featuring:
Contact: Media
Education Project November 5-9, 2007 - Toronto, ON - GlobalAware Independent Media Gallery GlobalAware.org provides classroom resources for media education. They
create buttons, posters, postcards, and photography designed to engage
people in social, ecological, and media issues. The Gallery (60 Kensington
Ave) will be open from 11-6 pm for displays and updates on media literacy
workshops for youth. November 6, 2007 - Lunenburg, NS - National Media Education Week Newspaper Feature and Online Forum Lighthouse Publishing presents local media specialists in a newspaper feature and online forum. The feature will appear in the Bridgewater Bulletin and Lunenburg Progress Enterprise and will invite readers from the South Shore region of Nova Scotia to join the interactive forum on www.southshorenow.ca. Contact: Tim Reeves-Horton November 6, 2007 – Toronto, ON - Feature Film and Popular Culture: Stories for the Classroom Join the Association for Media Literacy for a fascinating panel discussion featuring Jesse Wente, CBC film critic, Kristine Collins, NFB and media educator Chris Worsnop. After the panel presentation, breakout sessions focusing on using film in the classroom will be held for elementary and secondary teachers. No reservations required. The event will also be available as a Web cast.
Web site: www.aml.ca November 6, 2007 – Edmonton, AB - Unplugged and In Their Pocket: How Future Media Technologies Will Affect Your Children" With portable media becoming the norm for young people, the rules for
movie and television ratings and parental involvement have completely
changed. How can ratings control viewing on a 4-inch screen? How does
the old adage telling parents to "Just turn it off" apply? Learn
new strategies to help create a future generation of media savvy consumers.
Presented by Rod Gustafson of Parent Previews and sponsored by the Alberta
Association for Media Awareness. Contact: Wayne
Blair November 7, 2007 – Montreal, QC – Agitate! If you are between the ages of 13 and 30, and would like to discuss ideas about how you can positively impact your community: you and your friends are invited to a free screening of the documentary film The Merchants of Cool and take part in a group discussion at the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce YMCA teen zone. Snacks will be provided. The Merchants of Cool – An introduction to the genre of persuasion, this film examines the complex ways in which the marketing industry targets young adults with messages of consumption. Organizers of Agitate! include Co-op Collective Vision, Uberculture, Collective’s Cinema Politica series and the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce YMCA. Web sites: www.collectivevision.ca, www.cinemapolitica.org November 8, 2007 – Ottawa, ON – Parenting the Net Generation/Devenir e-Parent Joan of Arc Academy for Girls is holding a bilingual media literacy
evening for parents and their daughters. Media Education Specialist Emmanuelle
Erny-Newton from Media Awareness Network will present an overview
of the workshop Parenting the Net Generation in English, then guide
parents and their daughters through a hands-on demonstration of the online
tutorial Devenir e-Parent. November 8-9, 2007 - Vancouver, BC - Personal Landscapes: Free fieldtrip to Pacific Cinémathèque The Pacific Cinémathèque, in partnership with the British Columbia Association for Media Educators, presents two highly engaging workshops on the theme of 'Personal Landscapes' for secondary students and teachers across the Lower Mainland.
This event is free, and spaces are limited, so please reserve early.
Contact: Sally Stubbs November 15, 2007 - Montreal, QC - Deadline for the Unite Against Aids Video Contest (National) IndieMV, in support of UNICEF Canada, is giving Canadians the opportunity
to creatively express their views about HIV and AIDS through music and
video. The contest is designed to challenge people to produce videos that
depict the impact that HIV and AIDS is having on children around the world
and how UNICEF is giving them hope for a better future. November 18 - 21, 2007 — Kananaskis, AB - Education Media Marketplace (EMM) Canadian educational media distributors are once again collaborating to offer a preview venue featuring individual screenings of thousands of new, quality education resources. EMM 2007 will feature the latest releases from hundreds of the world’s best producers. November 21, 2007 - London, ON - Indie 2.0: How the Web Went DIY and Pop is Killing Indie Culture London Public Library hosts Indie 2.0: How the Web Went DIY and Pop is
Killing Indie Culture. In this provocative lecture, culture critic Hal
Niedzviecki will explore the post-millennial environment of do-it-yourself
fame seekers, Facebookers and Second Lifers. He'll ask: What happens to
the idea of independent and underground culture in an age when everyone's
entitled to be special? Join Niedzviecki as he tells tales from the frontlines
of the digital and searches for the future of creation and community in
a world of bloggers, uploaders, amateur musicians, armchair critics and
more. Cost: Free. Contact: London
Public Library November 22, 2007 - Saskatoon, SK – Teaching in a Wireless Age Today's students have grown up wired and wireless, surrounded by texts unimagined by most of us when this university (University of Saskatchewan) was founded. What do these changes in text forms mean for education? Are we immigrants or citizens in this new world of literacies? How will we support young people in our schools and homes so that they will become a literate citizenry? Teaching in a Wireless Age is presented by David Booth, Professor Emeritus,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. November 22, 2007 - London, ON - The Politics of News: Agenda Setting/Agenda Vetting London Public Library hosts The Politics of News: Agenda Setting/Agenda
Vetting. The nightly TV news broadcast remains the single most influential
source of political information among citizens of western democracies.
The complex events of the entire world are distilled into just over 20
minutes of prime-time material. What happens as the muddy realities of
the day are boiled down and purified into neat and distinct news items?
How do news professionals come to represent our worlds through organizational,
professional, economic, ideological, and political filters? How do they
represent reality? What is laundered out? What stories are left untold
and whose accounts remain marginal? How will acknowledging what's included
and excluded help us to read the news more critically? Cost: Free. Contact:
London Public Library November 22, 2007 - London, ON - Media Violence: Truth Or Consequences (Grades 7 - 10) London Public Library hosts Media Violence: Truth Or Consequences (Grades 7 - 10) presented by Shari Graydon. On TV, at the movies, in video games and music lyrics, violence is glamorized as entertaining and inevitable, integral to sport and only resolved through more violence. This workshop explores these issues in the context of 50 years of research and kids' own real life experiences of bullying and aggression. Contact: London Public Library November 22, 2007 - London, ON - 7 Habits Of Savvy Media Watchers (Grades 3 - 7) London Public Library hosts 7 Habits Of Savvy Media Watchers (Grades 3 - 7) presented by Shari Graydon. This presentation helps younger students to identify and think critically about all forms of media persuasion - from TV commercials and celebrity endorsements to brand names and insecurity appeals. Along the way, it equips them with tools to unpack the subtleties of ambiguous language and sophisticated imagery. Contact: London Public Library November 23, 2007 – Winnipeg, MB - So Many Subtitles, So Little Time So Many Subtitles, So Little Time is presented by Kevin Nikkel
at the Manitoba Association of Teachers of English (MATE) conference Hands
On Learning: Practical Approaches for the ELA Classroom. This seminar
makes a case for using foreign subtitled films in the high school English
classroom. Watching movies is more than something to pass the time; take
advantage of these films to explore literacy and multiculturalism. Recommended
films and related print resources will be presented. November 23, 2007 – Winnipeg, MB – Integration of Media in the Classroom Integration of Media in the Classroom is presented by Freeze Frame
International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages at the conference Exploring
Possibilities and Engaging Ideas hosted by the Manitoba Association for
Cooperative Learning Teachers (MACLT). This workshop introduces the basics
of video production and its integration in the curriculum; it gives educators
the opportunity to learn how video production and film analysis can be
tied into classroom work; and how it can be used as a tool to better understand
concepts and subject matter. November 23, 2007 - Winnipeg, MB - Manitoba Physical Education Teachers' Association Special Area Group 2007 Conference Concerned Children's Advertisers will present a workshop on childhood obesity, as it relates to moving more, eating smart and being media wise. Using the award-winning public service messages produced by Concerned Children's Advertisers, participants will receive lesson plans and tips, tools and strategies on how to help children lead healthy, balanced lives. Contact: Linda Millar; www.cca-kids.ca/welcome.html. November 23 & 24, 2007 - Toronto, ON - Media Education: Make It Happen! Media Awareness Network presets Media Education: Make It Happen! at the Media Literacy Conference hosted by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association. Media Education: Make It Happen! introduces educators to the key principals of media education and provides strategies on how to facilitate media literacy in the classroom. The session will also review the new media literacy strand in the elementary and secondary Ontario Language curriculum, connecting student learning expectations with strategies and free resources available on the Media Awareness Network Web site. Contact: Lyn Vause November 24, 2007 - Toronto, ON - Toronto Catholic District School Board Media Literacy Symposium Concerned Children's Advertisers will present a workshop on children
and media. Using the award-winning public service messages produced by
Concerned Children's Advertisers, participants will receive lesson plans
and tips, tools and strategies on how to help children watch carefully,
think critically and be media wise. November 29, 2007 – Toronto : Children, Youth & Media Conference: Are We Listening? On November 29, 2007, the Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) will host the second Children, Youth & Media Conference. This event is the only one of its kind to bring together Canada’s creators, producers and broadcasters of children’s and youth programming. Link : http://www.act-aet.tv
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