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2011

January

18 - Healthy Media Choices Hour -

Fathers, Media and Story - review of S. Buvala “Daddyteller” and Parent Education fathers

February

22 - Healthy Media Choices Hour

Peggy Orenstein on Cinderella Ate My Daughter”


March

22 - Healthy Media Choices Hour

Mary Catherine Bateson on Composing a Further Life

April

7 ACME one- day conference Boston, MA

www.acmecoalition.org


13 Workshop at Marlboro College Grad Center

Healthy Media Choices: Being Intentional about Media and Young Children

  in conjunction with Family Garden Preschool

6 to 9  pm


29  NYSAEYC presentation

Effective Engagement with Parents about Concerns around Media in the Home”

http://www.nysaeyc.org/



June


12-15 NAEYC Professional Development Institute

Providence Rhode Island  http://www.NAEYC.org


August

1-5 Association for Children’s Spirituality

The 11th International Conference on Children’s Spirituality

Richmond, VA  http://www.childrenspirituality.org/conferences/


October

15 - Child Care Council of Orange County

Newburgh, NY

Website: http://www.childcarecounciloc.org/services/professionals/development/training.html



November

8 - Maternal and Child Health Coalition - Brattleboro, VT









2010

January

16         10:30- Noon

                      Free  Showing of “Consuming Kids” at Brooklyn Heights Branch, Brooklyn Public Library


February

2    Healthy Media Choices Hour:   K. Sean Buvala   The Daddyteller

March


13    Presenting: In Defense of Childhood – Play and Active Learning in Urban Schools

                        at City University of NY

                         Contact: ecegrad@ccny.cuny.edu

                           Facilitating morning and Afternoon Film screenings and discussions

                  

16   Healthy  Media Choices Hour: Bernard Carey, Sr.   Father absenteeism

                           discussing   Crossing into Presence that he is writing, producing and performing

                           with his daughter, DawN  Excerpt: http://www.vimeo.com/8475552


26  Presenting: Northeast Media Literacy Conference at U Conn Storrs

                        http://medialiteracy.education.uconn.edu


April


  6    Workshop: Queens Early Head Start Programs (private)



8 -10      Presenting and panelist: CCFC Summit  Boston, MA

                       http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/events.htm


    20      Healthy Media Choices Hour: Mary Catherine Bateson: Generational Shifts and the Story of

                           Culture: Where are we going?

                           Upcoming book: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom


May

18    Healthy Media Choices Hour: Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted:

                         The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age


June

             8 Healthy Media Choices Hour: Lance Strate, Executive Director, Institute of

                       General Semantics: Passing on Culture and Meaning  Podcast


                    29                    Healthy Media Choices Hour: Julie Kincaid, author:

                                Overturning the Tables: Consumerism, Children and the Church

July


20  Lisa Ray: Director, Parents for Ethical Marketing on The Year Without Disney

August

Time off!

September

Writing!

October

16  NH Early Childhood Annual Conference Presentation, Manchester, NH

29-31 General Semantics Conference, Fordham University


November

November   3 - 6    Presenting: National conference of National Association for Educators of

                Young Children: Speaking to Parents about Media in the Home

                            Annaheim, CA  wwww.naeyc.org


9 Presentation at PechaKucha conference, Brattleboro, VT

23  HMCH interview with Mary Catherine Bateson on Creating a Further Life


30  1pm HMCH interview with pediatrician

Gerald Fuld, head of AAP Media Committee www.wvew.org


6 pm Workshop on Media and Young Children  Marlboro Grad Center Brattleboro, VT

                       

 

   

                                                                

2009

March

14    Blue Rock School: Workshop for parents and teachers (private)


18  Guest Lecturer at Brooklyn College: South Park and Political Correctness class


21 Workshop: “Storytelling: The Heart of Family Media Literacy”

                        New England Storytellers “Share the Fire” Conference


April


29       Screening of “Consuming Kids” and discussion

                        in cooperation with Windham Childcare Association and  Know Media

May                   


22    Media, Technology and Children

                       Parents of Korean Descent, Ridgewood, New Jersey

                       (Private workshop)

June

5      Panelist at Media Conversations Conference,

                       Focus on Parents and Teachers of Young Children

                       Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus http://www.mediaeco.com/moc09/

                       contact: David Walczyk djwalczyk@gmail.com


7           Salmagundi Club, NYC

                       Opening: Richard Schmid and His Influence: Childhood Innocence

                       Healthy Media Choices collaboration on  “An Art Guide for Children”

                       associated with the exhibit.


25    Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

                      Birthing Center Program - New Moms Network

                      Contact: Dawn Kersula dkersula@bmhvt.org


July

15   Presentation at  Empowering Teachers Summer Institute

                     Sarah Lawrence College www.slc.edu/cdi

August


September

11-13    Semantics Conference, Fordham University



October      


   5   Telling Our Own Stories So Others Will Understand

                      Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro

                      Media Mentoring Program, Vermont Independent Media

                     Betsy@commonsnews.org


  7      Presentation for Teachers at Sarah Lawrence College Laboratory School

                      Private event


17                   Presenting: The Implications of Media Involvement for Young Children: How to Have

                        the Conversation with Parents

                       Early Learning NH 2009 Professional Development Conference.

                        Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.

                        Contact: Katie Brissette: kbrissette@earlylearningnh.org

   

24                    Presenting: Communicating and collaborating with Parents about Media in the Home

                        NYCAEYC Annual Conference

                        Contact: Jessica Howe: jessica.howe@mail.cuny.edu


27                    Presentation for Parents at Sarah Lawrence College Laboratory School

                        Private event

30                    Neil Postman Conference, NYU


November

6                    Blue Rock School, Nyack,NY

                        Private event for Teachers

December

8                    Private event for Parents



Presentations in some private venues not listed at request of client.


                                

2008 


February 13

Brooklyn Friends School

“Consumerism in Early Childhood”

Parent conversation, along with Susan Gregory Thomas, author of “Buy Buy Baby”

(BFS parents only)


February 26

“Media, advertising and substance abuse”

Turning Point Center of Windham County

14 Elm Street, Brattleboro.

Open to  the public

Contact: Jennifer Burtis, tpwc.1 (at) hotmail.com



March 4

Nurturing Parents Program

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont

Brattleboro

Contact: Noreen Lake nlake(at)pcavt.org



March 6

“Who Will Tell Your Children What Life Is All About?”

New Moms Network

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Contact: Dawn Kersula  dkersula(at)bmhvt.org


March 18th

What Do Media Images Tell Us?  What Do We Believe?

Morningside

Brattleboro 

“Making the Most of I” participants only


March 22

Our Stories, Our World

People, Plants and Possibilities Conference

http://public.sit.edu/peopleplantspossibilities/

School of International Training

Contact: Megan Luce  Megan.Luce (at) mail.sit.edu



March 25

This workshop is postponed.

Those interested are encouraged to attend “Dreamworlds 3”

at the Marlboro College Tech Center.  Call 802-243-0028 for information.

“Media Habits as facilitators or inhibitors of change”

Turning Point Center of Windham County

14 Elm Street  Brattleboro.

Open to the public

Contact: Jennifer Burtis tpwc.1 (at) hotmail.com


April 4

“The Commercialization of Childhood: The Role of Belief Communities”

Moderating Luncheon Forum:

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Summit

Wheelock College, Boston, MA

Contact:  :   ccfc (at )jbcc.harvard.edu


April 22

Turning Point Center of Windham County series: Media and Self-Esteem


May 3

“Media, Advertising and Young Children: Assessing Effects

and Communicating With Parents”

New York State Association of Educators of Young Children - Annual Conference

Buffalo, New York

nysaeyc at capital.net


May 21

Riverdale Nursery School

Riverdale NS and invited schools only

Contact: alice paucker (at )earthlink.net


Workshops on Summer hiatus...there’s writing to be done!


August 21

10 AM

Who will introduce the world to your baby?

Contact: Dawn Kersula Dawn Kersula dkersula (at) bmhvt.org


September 9

7:15

Presentation:

“Got Story: Storytelling - Essential for Everything from

Family Media Literacy to Marketing”

Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro

Contact: mmp@commonsnew.org



September 13 -14

“Independent Media as a Support for Language Arts”

Power of Words Conference

Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont

info (at) tlanetwork.org

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