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16
Jan
Blog / Posted by Alyssa Taft
January 16, 2016. Providence, RI. Media Smart Libraries participated in EdCamp RI’s 4th Annual Unconference held at Rhode Island College. This education unconference attracted teachers, administrators, and school librarians from across Southern New England. Media Smart Libraries’ Mary Moen, Allison Barker, and Alyssa Taft attended, along with Media Smart Librarians Cohort members Suzanne Costa, David Fountaine, and Christopher...
14
Jan
Blog / Posted by Alyssa Taft
January 14, 2016. Boston, MA. ALISE 2016 and ALA Midwinter 2016 were held back to back in Boston, Massachusetts this January. Allison Barker and I, graduate assistants for Media Smart Libraries, and GSLIS students were given the opportunity to attend. These two conferences, while vastly different in their scopes, offered unique...
05
Jan
Blog / Posted by Alyssa Taft
January 5, 2016. Boston, MA. The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) held their annual conference at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel from January 5-8, 2016. Media Smart Libraries was excited to present a poster at the ALISE 2016 Works in Progress Poster Session on Tuesday evening. This event was a chance for Library...
24
Dec
Blog / Posted by Suzanne Jordan
I attended the Start a Conversation on Digital Voice in Your Library workshop where Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education gave an overview of media literacy and the importance of media literacy education in today’s increasingly digital and social media world. She reviewed her organization’s core principles which include...
10
Dec
Blog / Posted by Alyssa Taft
December 10, 2015. Kingston, RI. Karen Mueller is a University of Rhode Island student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. This past fall she participated in Renee Hobbs’ Current Trends course titled Film Education in Libraries. One of the goals of the Media Smart Libraries grant is to revise the current LIS curriculum so that it emphasizes digital media literacy and experiential learning through community collaboration. The pedagogical strategies and student work in...
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