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”
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
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
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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