Saturday's Pre-conference sessions provide an opportunity to thoroughly explore a topic or an issue in  a workshop setting led by some of the field's best and most dynamic teachers and leaders.  If you can arrange your schedule these workshops may be one of your conference highlights.

Yes, You Can!   Understanding Copyright and Fair Use for Media Literacy Education   9 am – 1 pm    $40
Presenter: Renee Hobbs, Temple University Media Education Lab;  

Media literacy educators make intense and active use of copyrighted materials, including movies, TV shows, advertising, newspapers, magazines, websites, images, videogames and online content. Yet many educators are confused about the scope and limitations of their rights to use copyrighted materials under the fair use doctrine. This pre-conference workshop is a great opportunity to more deeply understand why yes, you can actively use mass media, digital media, and popular culture as tools for media literacy education without the worry of violating copyright.

Led by veteran media literacy educator Renee Hobbs, who co-directed the recent investigation of Fair Use and Media Literacy funded by the MacArthur Foundation, this workshop uses a dynamic combination of instructional methods, including lecture, viewing and discussion, case study analysis, demonstration of model lessons, role-playing and small-group discussion. In it you will learn:

• why there's so much confusion and misunderstanding out there, and how it affects students and teachers in both K-12 and college
• why the old "educational use guidelines" -- those specific rules about usage-- actually interfere with public understanding of copyright law
• why the doctrine of fair use is so important for educators and students
•  how to use reasoning and critical thinking to determine whether (or not) a specific use of copyrighted materials is a fair use
• how copyright law applies to the creation, sharing and (even) the selling of curriculum materials that use excerpts from mass media, digital media and popular culture texts
• how copyright law applies to student creative work--- and the sharing of that work to authentic audiences
• What the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education is and how it can help educators advocate for their rights under the law

In short, this workshop gives you all the tools you need to share knowledge about copyright and fair use with your colleagues, supervisors and students.

New Literacies + Media Literacy: Engaging Students in New & Exciting Ways    9 am - 3pm       $50  
Presenters: William Kist, associate professor, Kent State University and Frank Baker, creator, Media Literacy Clearinghouse web site

William Kist and Frank Baker, leaders in their respective fields, come together for this day-long session designed to demonstrate how the marriage of new literacies and classic media literacy can be used to engage young people in 21st century learning. They promise an engaging, highly interactive, and hands-on experience. (Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, but use of one is not mandatory)

Schedule:
9:00 am-11:30 am (Part One)
11:30 am-12:30 pm (Lunch, on your own)
12:30 pm- 3:00 pm (Part Two)


Research Redux: A Followup to the 2007 Research Summit
1:30 - 4:00 /  free   

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In 2007 NAMLE sponsored the first-ever Research Summit to present the work of researchers around the country looking into the efficacy of media literacy education. This round table will review research conducted since that time and point to directions for new and continued research. There is no charge for participating in this follow-up roundtable but registration is required to determine room size needed.