List members in the vicinity of Boston this weekend will certainly want to know about this conference. I went to one of these last semester and found it both entertaining and enormously educational. Apologies to those who get this twice. Stephen B. >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:13:25 -0500 >From: Brad Seawell <<[log in to unmask]> >Subject: We Wired the Classroom, Now What? conference at MIT, Feb. 3 > and 4 > EVENT NOTICE We Wired the Classroom, Now What? To Be Answered at MIT Conference on Feb. 3 and 4 Cambridge, MA. -- Elementary, secondary and college educators, education students and technology specialists from around New England will converge on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the weekend of Feb. 3 and 4 to consider the impact of new media on learning and teaching and to provide some answers to the question, We ve Wired the Classroom, Now What? Keynote speakers will be Christopher Dede, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Emerging Models of Learning); Bonnie Bracey, George Lucas Foundation, Washington (Media Literacy); Henry Jenkins, director, MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies (Student-Produced Media); and Brian Smith, MIT Media Laboratory (Technology Coordination and Resource Management). Additional speakers ranging from grade-school teachers to school district technology officers will present a wide variety of teaching strategies and technology demonstrations they have used to successfully incorporate new media into the classroom (or field trip). Some speakers will show new-media projects made by students, and the Saturday afternoon program ends with a screening of student-made media. Conference registration, the full conference agenda, speaker biographies, and descriptions of presentations are available on the conference Web site at <<"http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/classroom" eudora="autourl">http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/classroomThe conference takes place in the Tang Center, Building E51, on the MIT campus. The conference is free and open to the public, and continental breakfasts and bag lunches will be provided. The We Wired the Classroom, Now What? conference is sponsored by MIT Comparative Media Studies and MIT Communications Forum. The MIT Communications Forum is the outreach arm of the Comparative Media Studies program. For more information, please contact Program Director Henry Jenkins at 617-253-3068 (email at [log in to unmask]) or Program Coordinator Brad Seawell at 617-253-3521 (email at [log in to unmask]). > Stephen Brophy - Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit my review archives at http://www.stephenbrophy.org ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu