Speakers:
Constance Steinkuehler, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will deliver an overview of the constellation of media literacy practices entailed in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), highlighting the forms of production gamers engage in as part of normative play and how such practices align (or fail to align) with practices ostensibly valued in offline life.
Constance's Presentation
Craig Davis, Youth Digital Arts CyberSchool, shows how YDACS is helping youth ages 8 to 20 take their video game experience one step further with its video game design course series and digital music production classes. These courses are being offered for credit at schools across the country. Libraries, community technology centers, camp programs, and homeschoolers are also enrolling in these programs. Participants will learn how they can enroll their junior video game developers and composers into Youth Digital Arts CyberSchool classes.
Craig's Presentation
YDACS Newsletter
Beth Gallaway, Metrowest trainer/consultant, will examine the needs of youth and adult patrons who have grown up playing video games and think, learn and behave in unfamiliar ways, demanding unique services. Strategies on serving the gamer generation and success stories from libraries around the country will be presented. In a special afternoon session geared to school library media specialists, Beth will discuss how gaming strengthens and develops new literacies of exposing knowledge, employing information, evaluating information and using ethics on the Internet.
Beth's AM Presentation
Beth's PM Presentation
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