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	* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCD0LKprCoU		* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCD0LKprCoU



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	*[http://208.88.72.149/article_view/smid/370/articleid/96/reftab/57/t/2009-asne-reynolds-high-school-journalism-institute-participants.aspx#ma Participants in the ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Institute.] <br>
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	*[http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Content.cfm?id=3 Background on the Institute program.]

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	*[http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Content.cfm?id=3 Background on the Institute program.]		*[http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Content.cfm?id=3 Background on the Institute program.]
	*[http://chinamojovt.wordpress.com/ Champlain Goes to China Blog].
	*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=red13IQ4qG4 Camp Champ Goes to China MOJO International Service Experience on YouTube] and
	*[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ccmojo2009&search_type=&aq=f Champlain College 2009 MOJO (mobile journalism) archival footage on YouTube].

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	*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, ~~Connecticut~~ and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? ~~"Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy.~~ ~~Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students~~. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. ~~We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world~~. ~~Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co~~-~~author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio~~-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile]) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cJ3iddYxc		*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Conn., and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth (READ MORE)] Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, Conn. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile]) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cJ3iddYxc

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	*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Alan-Weintraut Alan Weintraut,] teaches AP English Language & Composition, journalism and IB film studies at Annandale, Va., High School. He's a past director and board member of Project Renewal Inc. He advised the student media program and speaks at local, state and national journalism conventions. In the past, he managed a children's nonprofit, a homeless shelter and worked in communications for a AFL-CIO labor union. [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-weintraut/5/847/549 (Alan's LinkedIn profile)]		*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Alan-Weintraut Alan Weintraut,] teaches AP English Language & Composition, journalism and IB film studies at Annandale, Va., High School. He's a past director and board member of Project Renewal Inc. He advised the student media program and speaks at local, state and national journalism conventions. In the past, he managed a children's nonprofit, a homeless shelter and worked in communications for a AFL-CIO labor union. [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-weintraut/5/847/549 (Alan's LinkedIn profile)] VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdMyS-quHqY


	*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? "Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy. Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world. Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co-author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile]) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cJ3iddYxc		*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? "Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy. Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world. Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co-author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile]) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cJ3iddYxc


	* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Lynn-Washington Lynn Washington,] runs the Convergent Media Magnet program at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia SC. The program combines newspaper, broadcast, yearbook and graphic design. The program is the brainchild of a colleague, Lynn Washington, who teaches at RNE. She wrote the grant after seeing the NewsPlex (international journalism training facility) at the University of SC, located at SC ETV.		* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Lynn-Washington Lynn Washington,] runs the Convergent Media Magnet program at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia SC. The program combines newspaper, broadcast, yearbook and graphic design. The program is the brainchild of a colleague, Lynn Washington, who teaches at RNE. She wrote the grant after seeing the NewsPlex (international journalism training facility) at the University of SC, located at SC ETV.

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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dare-Brawley Dare Brawley] is a senior at Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and editor of her schools feminist magazine. The magazine grew out of a class she took called [http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/who_we_are_history.htm The Ophelia Project] which studied how researchers are combatting the way girls lose self confidence as they grew through adolescence. The mission of the magazine is to provide an outlet for independent thinking and fiercly smart girls ages 12 to 18 and to produce a public which reflects alternative values and views from those of the popular media. She will talk about the ways that print and online journalism allows students who would normally not feel comfortable and having a setting where they can have a voice and opinion outlet.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dare-Brawley Dare Brawley] is a senior at Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and editor of her schools feminist magazine. The magazine grew out of a class she took called [http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/who_we_are_history.htm The Ophelia Project] which studied how researchers are combatting the way girls lose self confidence as they grew through adolescence. The mission of the magazine is to provide an outlet for independent thinking and fiercly smart girls ages 12 to 18 and to produce a public which reflects alternative values and views from those of the popular media. She will talk about the ways that print and online journalism allows students who would normally not feel comfortable and having a setting where they can have a voice and opinion outlet. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccYjArVQpM



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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Michael-McSweeney Michael McSweeney] is at a 1,200-student high school and English department coordinator. He uses wikis and web 2.0 technologies to get student work to a wider audience. He has focused in on journalism for its emphasis on asking good questions and getting kids out into the world interacting with people. He sees this as having a place in the core of any English curriculum and is now introducing journalism study into our core grade 11 class. "We're looking at that study culminating in a podcast project that let's kids produce an audio on some feature in our home town." He will share what he accomplished last year with a pilot student group and describe how to bring it across a larger group.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Michael-McSweeney Michael McSweeney] is at a 1,200-student high school and English department coordinator. He uses wikis and web 2.0 technologies to get student work to a wider audience. He has focused in on journalism for its emphasis on asking good questions and getting kids out into the world interacting with people. He sees this as having a place in the core of any English curriculum and is now introducing journalism study into our core grade 11 class. "We're looking at that study culminating in a podcast project that let's kids produce an audio on some feature in our home town." He will share what he accomplished last year with a pilot student group and describe how to bring it across a larger group. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSS_pGZiFCU



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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA0pKSQNbLM



			* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Melissa-Wantz Melissa Wantz] -- [http://rjicollab.ning.com/profile/MelissaWantz?xg_source=profiles_memberList (Melissa's RJI-Collaboratory page)]is a journalism and English teacher at [http://www.foothilltech.org/ a suburban Ventura, Calif. high school.] As a first-year advisor she is helping 28 students restart journalism at the school for the first time since 2004. The [http://www.thefoothilldragon.org/JMLA/ Foothill Dragon Press] launched October 1, 2009, as a 100% online forum. Students are using all the free technology they can find "because we started with no funding and no financial support from the district." Technologies include [http://www.joomla.org/ Joomla!], an open-source (free) content management system that is very flexible and sleek and offers a lot of bells and whistles in terms of site interactivity and organization. Additionally, the publication uses Twitter and Facebook to push the news into student spaces and attract nontraditional readers. She'll talk about how students use the class Ning site for non-deadline assignments, and how the various other technologies fit into the curriculum and work flow. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSNYH5FZH4A

	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Melissa-Wantz Melissa Wantz] -- [http://rjicollab.ning.com/profile/MelissaWantz?xg_source=profiles_memberList (Melissa's RJI-Collaboratory page)]is a journalism and English teacher at [http://www.foothilltech.org/ a suburban Ventura, Calif. high school.] As a first-year advisor she is helping 28 students restart journalism at the school for the first time since 2004. The [http://www.thefoothilldragon.org/JMLA/ Foothill Dragon Press] launched October 1, 2009, as a 100% online forum. Students are using all the free technology they can find "because we started with no funding and no financial support from the district." Technologies include [http://www.joomla.org/ Joomla!], an open-source (free) content management system that is very flexible and sleek and offers a lot of bells and whistles in terms of site interactivity and organization. Additionally, the publication uses Twitter and Facebook to push the news into student spaces and attract nontraditional readers. She'll talk about how students use the class Ning site for non-deadline assignments, and how the various other technologies fit into the curriculum and work flow.


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	*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? "Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy. Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world. Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co-author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile])		*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? "Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy. Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world. Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co-author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile]) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cJ3iddYxc

			* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Lynn-Washington Lynn Washington,] runs the Convergent Media Magnet program at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia SC. The program combines newspaper, broadcast, yearbook and graphic design. The program is the brainchild of a colleague, Lynn Washington, who teaches at RNE. She wrote the grant after seeing the NewsPlex (international journalism training facility) at the University of SC, located at SC ETV.

	* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Lynn-Washington Lynn Washington,] runs the Convergent Media Magnet program at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia SC. The program combines newspaper, broadcast, yearbook and graphic design. The program is the brainchild of a colleague, Lynn Washington, who teaches at RNE. She wrote the grant after seeing the NewsPlex (international journalism training facility) at the University of SC, located at SC ETV.

			* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCD0LKprCoU

	* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller.

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	* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] ~~Dean Miller~~ is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller.		* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller.

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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.


	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College.

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	===Here is a list of some of our presenters. Click on their name to go to their detailed wiki page.===		===Here is a list of some of our presenters. Click on their name to go to their detailed wiki page.===
	<hr>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mit-media-literacy-journalism BACK TO BREAK OUT HOME PAGE]<hr>		<hr>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mit-media-literacy-journalism BACK TO BREAK OUT HOME PAGE]<hr>


	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dare-Brawley Dare Brawley] is a senior at Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and editor of her schools feminist magazine. The magazine grew out of a class she took called [http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/who_we_are_history.htm The Ophelia Project] which studied how researchers are combatting the way girls lose self confidence as they grew through adolescence. The mission of the magazine is to provide an outlet for independent thinking and fiercly smart girls ages 12 to 18 and to produce a public which reflects alternative values and views from those of the popular media. She will talk about the ways that print and online journalism allows students who would normally not feel comfortable and having a setting where they can have a voice and opinion outlet.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dare-Brawley Dare Brawley] is a senior at Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and editor of her schools feminist magazine. The magazine grew out of a class she took called [http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/who_we_are_history.htm The Ophelia Project] which studied how researchers are combatting the way girls lose self confidence as they grew through adolescence. The mission of the magazine is to provide an outlet for independent thinking and fiercly smart girls ages 12 to 18 and to produce a public which reflects alternative values and views from those of the popular media. She will talk about the ways that print and online journalism allows students who would normally not feel comfortable and having a setting where they can have a voice and opinion outlet.
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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.

	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College.
	the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College.

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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.
	journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New
	Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.

	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving

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	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Michael-McSweeney Michael McSweeney] is at a 1,200-student high school and English department coordinator. He uses wikis and web 2.0 technologies to get student work to a wider audience. He has focused in on journalism for its emphasis on asking good questions and getting kids out into the world interacting with people. He sees this as having a place in the core of any English curriculum and is now introducing journalism study into our core grade 11 class. "We're looking at that study culminating in a podcast project that let's kids produce an audio on some feature in our home town." He will share what he accomplished last year with a pilot student group and describe how to bring it across a larger group.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Michael-McSweeney Michael McSweeney] is at a 1,200-student high school and English department coordinator. He uses wikis and web 2.0 technologies to get student work to a wider audience. He has focused in on journalism for its emphasis on asking good questions and getting kids out into the world interacting with people. He sees this as having a place in the core of any English curriculum and is now introducing journalism study into our core grade 11 class. "We're looking at that study culminating in a podcast project that let's kids produce an audio on some feature in our home town." He will share what he accomplished last year with a pilot student group and describe how to bring it across a larger group.


	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] Dean Miller is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller.


	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [http://www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth
	~~journalism education site on the Web. Klos joined ASNE in 1996 and has worked for news organizations in New~~
	Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.

	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Diana-Mitsu-Klos Diana-Mitsu-Klos] runs [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101741 the high-school journalism initiatives] of the American Society of News Editors in Reston, Va. [www.highschooljournalism.org (HOME PAGE)]. Youth journalism projects include http://my.hsj.org/ which is free and the largest online host of teen news. Also, the http://www.hsj.org/ is the most heavily visited youth
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	Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.		Jersey, Connecticut and New York. Along with the high-school journalism project, she also supervises programs focused on journalism credibility, strengthening the ties between college journalism professors and daily newspapers, and training editors from abroad. Prior to joining ASNE in 1996, she was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. She has also worked for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and The Daily Journal in Vineland, N.J.

	* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work.		* [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Sara-Platanitis Sara Platanitis,] is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. She will discuss how her student journalists use Flip cameras with their work. After reviving
	After reviving		the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master's degree in English literature from Western New England College.
	the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple-year
	publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism
	educators from across the United States to participate in the
	prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of
	Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis worked as a media-literacy consultant
	for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a
	teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature
	from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master~~^Ys~~ degree in
	English literature from Western New England College.


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	*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-~~Lynn~~-~~Washington Lynn Washington~~,] ~~runs~~ the ~~Convergent Media Magnet program at Richland Northeast High~~ School in ~~Columbia SC~~. ~~The program combines newspaper~~, ~~broadcast~~, ~~yearbook~~ and ~~graphic design~~. ~~The program~~ is the ~~brainchild of~~ a ~~colleague~~, ~~Lynn Washington~~, who ~~teaches~~ at ~~RNE~~. ~~She wrote~~ the ~~grant after seeing~~ the ~~NewsPlex (international journalism training facility)~~ at ~~the~~ University ~~of SC~~, ~~located~~ at ~~SC ETV~~.		*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? "Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy. Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world. Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co-author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile])


			* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Lynn-Washington Lynn Washington,] runs the Convergent Media Magnet program at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia SC. The program combines newspaper, broadcast, yearbook and graphic design. The program is the brainchild of a colleague, Lynn Washington, who teaches at RNE. She wrote the grant after seeing the NewsPlex (international journalism training facility) at the University of SC, located at SC ETV.


			* (NOT ATTENDING) -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Dean-Miller Dean Miller] Dean Miller is the new director of The [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlindex.shtml Center for News Literacy,] formed in 2007 and has about $2 million from Ford, Knight and McCormick foundations to create a news-literacy curriculumum and spread it to the high-school and college level. He will present video of a local high-school teacher, one of their early students of news literacy. They have 1,200 students in the fall semester. It is taught as an undergraudate course and then there is a summer program program to help high-school teachers to learn how they can teach news-literacy during their academic years as either a stand-alone course or as drop-in units in an English, History or civics curriculum. The Ford Foundation grant is pushing to move the curriculum out across the country. There are four new Universities offer news-literacy this year. There is confusion between news literacy and media literacy. The course as they are building it is a critical-thinking rubric applied specificially to sorting out and finding reliable news in teh digital age, information with which you can make personal and civic decisions safey. It is not a journalism course per se, it is more of a critical thinking and media consumer course. Dean say one idea they teach at Stony Brook is that in a digital age everyone is a publisher so an emphasis is what is your role in the digital age when you pass things on to your friends. For example, what if you passed along summaries of the health-care bill that is fraught with errors. "We may be teaching people who will never be journalists per se in the future, but we will all be publishers," says Miller.

	*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-Stephen-Wilmarth Steve Wilmarth] lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and spends 4-5 months a year as a visiting professor at [http://www.nxtu.cn/ Ningxia Teachers University] in Guyuan, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] in northwest China. Steve is also the Managing Director of his own social entrepreneurial start-up non-profit organization, [http://dragonstudentexchange.ning.com/ New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.], which runs educational and cultural exchange programs for students in northwest China and the US, using social media and creating sustainable social learning communities. While our mainstream media concentrates on the extraordinary development in China over the past 25 years since the close of the Cultural Revolution, only about 300 million people in a country of 1.4 billion citizens are enjoying the rising wage and living standards that comes with China's entry into the economic community of nations. In northwest China in general, and in Ningxia in particular, poverty rates are the highest in all of China. It's no coincidence that northwest China is also home to some of China's highest concentrations of ethnic ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people Hui], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people Uyghur], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people Tibetan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_people Mongolian], etc.) and religious (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist) minorities. How do you teach journalism in northwest China, where journalists are highly restricted by government policy, without calling it journalism? "Through our government supported projects, we try to prepare young students with the skills they will need to be successful in a 21st century knowledge economy. Our hands on projects give Chinese students a chance to collaborate, communicate, and create their unique content by working in online project teams with US students. We give impoverished Chinese students the tools they need - Internet access, Flip mini-video cameras, smart phones, and online social media and teach them how to document and reflect on their lives and experiences. We provide people who live at the bottom of the economic and social order in this part of Central Asia, with a voice that empowers them to connect with the outside world. Our work includes teacher education programs and curriculum consulting work with social organizations and universities in northwest China." In addition to his work in China, Steve is a co-author whose book, '''''Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World''''' is due to be released in December 2009. In this book, Steve presents 5 socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching, and lays out a compelling case for the power of social production, social networking, new modalities of search and discovery, media grids such as video services and 3D virtual worlds, and the science of non-linear learning that makes "biology the mother science of learning in the 21st century," to fundamentally change our understanding of learning and teaching and define a new standard for what it means to be an educated global citizen in the 21st century. Steve is also a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School's Information Society Project, engaged in a research effort on digital education, which will result in a book project. He is a co-founder and former program development specialist at the Center for 21st Century Skills in Litchfield, CT. ([http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2640282&trk=tab_pro Steve's LinkedIn profile])

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