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ASC Digital & Media Literacy Summer Camp
This specialty camp provides students with enriching and exciting opportunities to become effective communicators and consumers, critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and empowered citizens. Rising 1st through 12th Grade students receive instruction from CMS master-level licensed teachers for the 6-week camp. Session One: Empowering Students as Digital Storytellers June 17-21 and June 24-28 Tell the story of healthy living! With the guidance of mater-level teachers, students will gain experience in storytelling, digital photography, and videography. Students will be immersed in…
Find out more »9° édition des Journées du E-Learning
Le E-learning est une notion protéiforme, en évolution constante. On peut dans une acceptation première définir le E-Learning comme l'apprentissage par Internet (et non l'enseignement !), mais cette définition étroite ne rend pas compte des enrichissements de la formation par l’usage du numérique. Selon la définition de l’Union Européenne, le E-Learning désigne "tout dispositif d’amélioration de la formation par le numérique aussi bien en salle qu’à distance. L’Université Jean Moulin Lyon3 est pionnière dans le domaine du E-Learning, notamment par…
Find out more »2014 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute
The Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford (PCMLP) are pleased to invite applications to the 16th annual Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, to be held from Monday, June 30th to Friday, July 11, 2014 at the University of Oxford. For the past sixteen years, the Annenberg- Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute has brought together researchers, academics, and practitioners…
Find out more »Serious Play Conference (Games in education)
The conference for people who manage serious games programs. The Serious Play Conference provides a forum for visionary educators, chief learning officers and heads of training programs in health care, government and the military a chance to learn how to improve the effectiveness of their serious games programs. Attendees rub shoulders with and talk one-on-one to the experts, hear about the latest measurement and assessment strategies and see how game mechanics are moving across the various serious games sectors, revolutionizing…
Find out more »Project Look Sharp Media Literacy Summer Institute 2014
The Summer Institute is an intensive, week-long media literacy course for teachers, support staff, college faculty, and other professionals working with students in an educational setting. Participants receive training in the theory and practice of media literacy, learn applications for digital technology, and work individually with a Project Look Sharp "coach" to develop and implement a media literacy integration project. Each of the morning sessions are presentation-style format, and the afternoons are hands-on production (using a variety of 21st century…
Find out more »Annual International Conference on Social Sciences, 4-7 August 2014, Athens, Greece: Call for Papers and Participation
Call for Papers and Participation: from June 2013 to 6 January 2014 The Social Sciences Research Division (SSRD) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing its first Annual International Conference on Social Sciences which will be held in Athens, Greece on 4-7 August 2014. In the past, the five research units of SSRD have organized 45 annual international conferences on economics, sociology psychology, politics & International Affairs, as well as the mass media & Communication. Papers…
Find out more »SOCIO-INT14- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
SOCIO-INT14- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Find out more »2014 DGD: Digital Media and Children’s Rights
The 2014 Day of General Discussion is themed “Digital Media and Children’s Rights”. It provides an opportunity for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to discuss the theme with representatives from governments, other UN treaty bodies and agencies, NGOs, national human rights institutions and others with expert knowledge. On the day there will be a plenary session and two working groups: Children’s equal and safe access to digital media and ICT and Children’s empowerment and engagement through…
Find out more »News Literacy Summit
One of our work groups is focusing on creating news literacy resources to share. I hope that we’re able to launch something soon after the summit, even if it’s only the links we gathered to get our participants ready for the event. Our goal is widespread knowledge and use of news and information literacy tools. So we’ll be sure to share what we can as quickly as possible and to find ways for those interested in news literacy to interact.…
Find out more »The Third International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science (ICIEIS2014)
The Third International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science (ICIEIS2014) Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland September 22-24, 2014. http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icieis2014/ ======================================================================== The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland From September 22-24, 2014 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics - Access Controls - AI / Soft Computing Methods in Machine Learning -…
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