Webinars Schedule (past)

The New Media Literacies Webinar Series explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape through a series of monthly webinars. The white paper Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Henry Jenkins et al., 2006) identifies the three core challenges: the participation gap, the transparency problem and the ethics challenge, and shares a provisionary list of skills needed for full engagement in today's participatory culture.

Each webinar looks at the New Media Literacies and associated challenges in the classroom in depth. The series is developed by NML staff and researchers in conjunction with a team of cutting edge educators. Each session features expert guest speakers, interactive tools and resources for educators, as well as time for participation. 


Schedule of Participatory Webinars on the New Media Literacies

February 11, 2010 from 7-8:30 EST / 4-5:30 PST: Judgment and Appropriation with a focus on Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons

Join Vanessa Vartabedian, a team of New Hampshire educators and special guests Erin Reilly and Flourish Klink as we look at what it means to meaningfully sample and remix media content in the context of your curriculum, demystify some of the the challenges copyright can present in the classroom and how you can help your students critically evaluate media sources.

March 18 from 7-8:30 EST / 4-5:30 PST: Networking and Negotiation in a Global Media Landscape
In this session, themed Networking and Negotiation, we will look at these NML skills as valuable and necessary in the context of K-12 education. Joining us will be special guest Hillary Kolos, MIT Comparative Media Studies Research Assistant, to discuss her experiences using these new media literacy skills in public school classrooms, as well as educator reflections from our early adopter network in New Hampshire.

April 15, 2010 at 7pm EST / 4pm PST : Collective Intelligence with Henry Jenkins
For the 3rd in this 8-part series, we will explore the new media literacy collective intelligence, and its relevance to educational practices. Leading this in-depth discussion will be renowned media scholar, USC's Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, and author, Henry Jenkins. Be ready to participate!

May 13, 2010 at 7pm EST / 4pm PST : Performance and Play
In this session we will be joined by Erin Reilly, NML Research Director to explore the concepts of Performance and Play in education.

June 9, 2010 at 7pm EST / 4pm PST : Transmedia Navigation
An in-depth panel discussion about Transmedia Navigation led by Henry Jenkins and joined by Mark Warshaw (The Alchemists, LA and Brazil) and Clement Chau (DevTech Research Group, Tufts University). The goal of this session is to help educators better understand about transmedia navigation and the value it can have in learning.

July 15, 2010 at 7pm EST / 4pm PST : Distributed Cognition
A participatory discussion about the practice of Distributed Cognition and learning with NML Research Director, Erin Reilly.