2010 Symposium Speakers
Symposium Speakers & Sessions
Teenagers and Identity in a Digital Age: Online Explorations and Ethical Development
Katie Davis, Project Specialist, Project Zero
Katie Davis is an advanced doctoral student in the Human Development and Education Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Teaching about Darfur: Exploring Film, Internet Resources, and Web Literacy in Online Collaborative Environments
Justin Reich, Co-Director, EdTechTeacher
Justin Reich is co-Director of EdTechTeacher, and author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers. Reich is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard University School of Education and project manager of the Digital Collaborative Learning Communities Project funded by the Hewlett Foundation.
The Role of Journalism in a Digital Age: An Exploration of the Documentary Film Reporter
Selected viewing of film clips and discussion with Will Okun, educator featured in Reporter with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
In June of 2007, as part of the annual Win-A-Trip contest, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof selected Mr. Okun and medical student Leana Wen to travel to central Africa to blog and vlog about youth and medical issual issues. Their trip serves as the backdrop for the HBO documentary, Reporter. He currently works for the Frank Porter Graham Childhood Development Institute and teaches GED in his native North Carolina.
Innovative Ways for Students to Use Google Earth to Engage with Literature and Film when studying the Holocaust
Kevin McGonegal, Technology Integration Specialist, Cambridge Public Schools
Kevin McGonegal works for the Cambridge Public Schools' Ed Tech Department. His department works with teachers to educate them on topics such as how to integrate SmartBoards into classrooms and how students can use iMove or podcasts in their projects.
NewsHour Educator Resources and the Changing Role of Journalism
Leah Clapman, Managing Editor—Education, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Leah Clapman has spent over a decade working with teachers to make the journalism of NewsHour with Jim Lehrer into resources that engage students in the world around them. As Managing Editor- Education, she created NewsHour Extra, which provides daily video lesson plans, student voices, and other tools to incorporate current events into history, world, economics, science, and language arts curriculums.
Possibilities of Using Cell Phone Technology in the Classroom, via virtual presentation
Liz Kolb, Author and Instructor, University of Michigan
Liz Kolb recently authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education, as well as MySpace Can Be a Learning Tool and Cell Phones as Learning Tools. She is currently a graduate instructor at the University of Michigan focusing on Learning Technologies.
Learning Strategies for Filming, Interviewing, and Editing Student-Created Video Project
Cara Powers, Co-Director, Press Pass TV
Cara Lisa Berg Powers is an author, educator, organizer and learner with a commitment to youth, media and justice. She is currently a Co-Director at the youth journalism organization Press Pass TV, in addition to her work as a consultant. She has published her first book, By Any Media Necessary.
Photo Journalism and Visual Literacy
Sara Terry, Aftermath Project
Sara Terry began working for the Christian Science Monitor in 1977, where she was a staff writer there for about ten years, and also a founding reporter of Monitor Radio, the Monitor's now-defunct public radio program. She traveled around the world, producing a series with another reporter and photographer called "Children in Darkness: the exploitation of innocence,” about the exploitation of children in the developing world in 1987. Sara Terry has been a freelancer since 1990. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, Rolling Stone and the Boston Globe Magazine.
Photo Journalism: Workshop on Classroom Applications and Exploring Photo Journalism
Sarah Terry, Aftermath Project focusing on the question “What makes your community strong and what are some factors that pull it apart?”
Panel Discussion: A Vision of the Future: Three Models of New Learning Platforms featuring Abigail Taylor, Michael Epstein, and Michael Durney, Chief Operating Officer for Facing History and Ourselves
Abigail Taylor is the Executive Director of iCivics inc., and the Our Courts project. She was the 2007-2008 fellow for the Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law. Taylor previously worked as a senior policy associate at Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, and she has designed curriculum for and taught middle school-aged youth in various traditional and nontraditional educational settings.
Michael Epstein is the director, founder, and CEO of Untravel Media. In 2004-2005 he was awarded a grant from the European Union, Motorola and Dell to create a highly-publicized mobile narrative walking tour in Venice, Italy in partnership with MIT, Dell, and the European Union. The tour highlighted new forms of location-based storytelling, featuring documentary vignettes set in backstage areas of this tourist destination. From that project Mr. Epstein formed the framework for Untravel Media, a unique production and software company established in 2006 that focuses on mobile storytelling. Epstein was a reporter on NPR's “Morning Edition” and the author of two Macromedia books on classroom use of multimedia.
Discussion with Documentary Film Creators: Making your Media Matter
Pamela Yates, Documentary Film Director and Co-Founder of Skylight Pictures
Paco De Onis’, Documentary Film Producer, Skylight Pictures
Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís will describe their experiences in creating social issue films and media tools across multiple digital platforms so that they complement each other, engage audiences, provoke thought and educate. They will show examples of how they provide opportunities to students within the social media sphere to communicate with people who are living these issues, whether it's a person in an internally displaced persons camp in Uganda, a member of Darfuri civil society, or an intern at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Pamela Yates is a director and the co-founder of Skylight Pictures. She is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Director of the Sundance Award winning “When the Mountains Tremble”, the Producer of the Emmy Award winning “Loss of Innocence”, and the Executive Producer of the Academy Award winning “Witness to War.” Ms. Yates is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures, Inc.
Paco de Onís is a film producer who recently produced a film about the International Criminal Court titled "The Reckoning" (world premiere at Sundance 09), accompanied by an audience engagement project promoting global rule of law, IJCentral. Prior to the ICC project, he produced "State of Fear", a Skylight Pictures film about Peru's 20-year "war on terror" based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Now he is producing Granito, a documentary puzzle about historical memory. Mr. de Onis has produced documentaries for PBS ("On Our Own Terms" with Bill Moyers), National Geographic ("Secrets from the Grave"), New York Times Television ("Police Force", "Paramedics"), and MSNBC ("Edgewise" with John Hockenberry).
Copyright and Licensing: Considerations for Educator and Students
Eric Saltzman, Founder and Board Member of Creative Commons, Former Executive Director of the Berkman Center, Harvard University
Eric Saltzman previously served as a Berkman Fellow and the second Executive Director of the Berkman Center. He founded the Harvard Law School Evidence Film Project to re-create and film trials as teaching tools. He went on to produce and direct films on the law for ABC, CBS, PBS and the BBC, winning the Emmy and the ABA Silver Gavel awards, among others. Saltzman is a founder and board member of Creative Commons, a collaborative project designed to encourage and enable the sharing and use of creative works on the Internet by reinvigorating the public domain. He also helped to establish ILAW, which brings participants from around the world together with top legal experts to explore the most pressing cyber law suits being debated—including intellectual property online, privacy v. security on the Net, and cybercrime and jurisdiction.
