

About Riverdeep's Destination Success Programs
An Overview of the Day's Activities
9:00-9:10 Welcome/Overview
- Colin Harrison, Jill Castek, Carolyn Gwinn,
Susan Watts Taffe
IRA Preconference Institute 20 Organizing Committee
9:10-10:00 MORNING KEYNOTE
Miss Rumphius Where are You Now: Examining the effect of NCLB on literacy and technology integration in K-12 schools--A Conversational Dialog
Part 1: Miss Rumphius Revisited: Where Have New Literacies Gone in an Age of No Child Left Behind
Donald J. Leu, New Literacies Research Team, University of Connecticut
Part 2: Miss Rumphius + Innovative Thinking = Overcoming and Persevering in an Age of No Child Left Behind
Denise Johnson, College of William and Mary
10:00-10:10 MINI BREAK
10:10-10:55 FEATURED SPEAKER
“We read flowers …” Rewriting imagination through ancestral and multimedia technologies: Theory and examples from an at-risk youth literacy program
Andrew Schofield, Kwantlen Park Secondary School, Canada
Recipient of the 2006 IRA Presidential Award for Reading and Technology
11:00-11:40 ''CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION 1
How Technology Use Extends the Boundaries of the Literacy Environment and the Literacy Teacher
Carolyn Gwinn, Educational Researcher and Consultant
Susan Watts Taffe, Educational Researcher and Consultant
Literacy Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls: An Exploration of ReadWriteThink (Lab)
Laurie A. Henry, New Literacies Research Team, University of Connecticut
Emily Manning, 2nd Grade Teacher, Pecan Creek Elementary Denton,TX
11:45-12:25 CATERED BOX LUNCHES INCLUDES SANDWICH, SALAD, CHIPS, DRINK & DESSERT
SPONSORED BY RIVERDEEP PUBLICATIONS, A SUBSIDIARY OF HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, CO.
12:30-1:10 CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION 2
Technology and Literacy: Perspectives from the Classroom
Mark Ahlness, 3rd Grade Teacher, Arbor Heights Elementary Seattle, WA
Information and Imagination: Informing New Visions (Lab)
Marino C. Alvarez, Tennessee State University
Victoria J. Risko, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
1:15-2:05 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE
Digital Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization
Michele Knobel, Montclair State University
Colin Lankshear, James Cook University
2:10-2:50 CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION 3
Mark Condon, RealeStudios
Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK
2:55-3:35 CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION 4
Making Learning Interactive: Reading, Writing, and Collaborating, in S’cool with Today’s Internet Technologies
Jill Castek & Lisa Zawilinski, New Literacies Research Team, University of Connecticut
Charting a New Course for Diverse Learners as They Engage in Digital Reading, Viewing, Listening, and Composing (lab)
Bridget Dalton, Center for Assistive Special Technologies (CAST)
3:40-4:25 FEATURED SPEAKER
Extending the Boundaries of Literacy: Possibilities, Realities, Complexities
William H. Teale, University of Illinois, Chicago
4:30-5:00 PANEL DISCUSSION --Featuring the presenters in conversation with participants
Chair: Carolyn Gwinn, Educational Researcher and Consultant
Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK
Denise Johnson, College of William and Mary
Don Leu, University of Connecticut
Andrew Schofield, Kwantlen Park Secondary School, Canada
William H. Teale, University of Illinois, Chicago
Closing: Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK
Thanks to all for presenting, and attending. We look forward to using this wiki to continue the dialog during the institute and beyond to share ideas and exchange information that will impact our teaching and our students' learning!
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