UCF, College of Education 11th Annual Literacy Symposium: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/details.cfm
Multiliteracies: Students and Teachers Reading, Writing, Communicating, & Learning in a Digital World
On April 3, 2009 (from 8 AM-3:30 PM), the UCF College of Education will be holding its 11th Annual College of Education Literacy Symposium!
Location: The UCF College of Education (Gymnasium). This event attracts an average of 500 educators from across the state. We hope that you mark that date on your calendar and also share it with fellow educators.
Admission is free but we require that attendees register. We welcome proposals from educators. This professional day is appropriate for all elementary and secondary educators, including literacy coaches, library media specialists, reading specialists, and administrators.
Our theme this year is on: Multiliteracies: Students and Teachers Reading, Writing, Communicating, & Learning in a Digital World. Join us as we address the following:
? How is literacy changing in the 21st century?
? How can we prepare students to meet the literacy demands of the 21st century?
? How can we motivate the "digital-natives" generation to read?
? How can we read, write, communicate, and learn using technology, multimedia, and a variety of texts?
? What does it look like in the classroom when you are working on 21st century skills?
? How about integrating literacy, the arts, and content areas?
? How can we help students critically evaluate learn from information they access on the Internet?
? How can we incorporate multiliteracies across the content areas?
? How (and what) do students read and comprehend when they read online texts or using the Internet?
? What are other teachers (K-12) doing to integrate new literacies in their classrooms?
? How about reading across the content areas and multiliteracies?
? Can multiliteracies help with my ELLs and students with exceptionalities?
Our morning keynote speaker will be Douglas Hartman, Ph.D.
Douglas K. Hartman, is Professor of Literacy & Technology in the College of Education at the Michigan State University, Senior Editor of the Journal of Literacy Research, Co-Director & Principal Investigator in the Literacy Achievement Research Center, and Research Fellow with the Center for Health Intervention & Prevention. His key research and teaching focus is on new literacies and adolescent literacy. The title of his keynote address is: Preparing a New Generation of Teachers and Students for the New Literacies of the Internet.
Our afternoon keynote speaker will be Johanna Riddle.
Johanna Riddle, a National Board Certified FL teacher, an art teacher, an arts administrator, a media specialist, and an author. Author of Engaging the Eye Generation (2009, Stenhouse Publishers). The title of her keynote address is: "Engaging the Eye Generation.
Enrique Puig, director of the FLaRE center, will speak on Literacy Leadership Teams.
Other literacy symposium topics include: Reading and Writing for K-12 grades; Motivation; Reading Across the Content Areas; Engaging Students with Texts; Media, Technology, and Literacy; Vocabulary & Comprehension; Math/Science & Technology; Childrens and Young Adult Literature; Learning Exceptionalities; ESOL /ELLs; Leadership Literacy Teams.
For more information on the event, please see:
http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/details.cfm
For an event flyer, please see:
http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/docs/flyer.pdf
For agenda, please see:
http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/agenda.cfm
For registration information, please see:
http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/register.cfm
For proposal submission, please see:
http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/proposal.cfm