Workshops

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** Workshops **

** Morning Sessions ** ** ( **** 10:30 – 11:45 **** Morning Workshop Session) **

** A – //Information on Diversity// (Media Awareness Network) **

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Jane Tallim and Cathy Wing (Media Awareness Network)

** Workshop Goals: ** Media Awareness Network (MNet) is looking for teachers to provide feedback on //That’s Not Me:// a new media and diversity tutorial with supporting classroom resources that will be launched on MNet’s Web site later this year. Framed around key concepts of media literacy, //That’s Not Me// deconstructs how entertainment and news media represent diversity and the impact media portrayals can have on the value we place on individuals and groups in our society.

The workshop will also provide classroom strategies and activities to help students challenge negative media representations and advocate for more realistic and positive media portrayals – including creating media productions of their own.

In this session, teachers will preview the tutorial and provide feedback through discussion and completion of a short questionnaire. Interested participants can also volunteer to pilot test the accompanying lesson plans with their students. Information gleaned from this session will be used to make sure these resources meet the needs of English Language Arts teachers and their students

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** B – //Let’s Go Digital!: Shakespeare Online and Interface Online built for 21st century Canadian high school English students// **

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Jamie Fraser, Oxford University Press

** Workshop Goals: ** This session will demonstrate how Shakespeare Online and Interface Online can engage your students, and help you differentiate instruction and assessment. You’ll see dramatic print and online multi media content such as Hollywood feature movies, audio performances, stage productions, Stratford Shakespeare Festival production images, and online learning tools including a language arts handbook, notebook, glossary, inquiry guides and plenty of downloadable masters. Come see how these innovative new teaching/learning tools can help you transfer ownership for learning to your students in class, in the lab, in the library and at home __and__ receive your 30 day FREE trial!

** C – //Engaging Grade 9-10 Students with 21st Century Literacy Resources// **

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Gwen Babcock, Nelson Literacy

** Workshop Goals: ** Keeping Grade 9-10 students focused and engaged in the classroom is quite a challenge amidst all of the complex changes — physical, intellectual, emotional, and social — that they experience during this phase of their lives. Youth aged 13 to 15 years are characterized by a growing desire to think and act independently while at the same time caring deeply about being accepted by peers and being part of a group (Caskey & Anfara, 2007). Add to those dynamics the increasingly ‘plugged-in’ world that the students live in and the mass of information that is coming at them each and every day and educators have an imposing set of forces to consider when designing strategies to effectively reach middle school students.

This means a changing world for Literacy teachers. New literacies are already becoming part of the educational landscape. As new technologies shape literacies, and students bring this capability into the classroom, they bring opportunities for teachers to foster reading and writing in more diverse and participatory contexts. This session will provide an overview of Nelson Literacy resources that offer a ‘blended literacy solution’ – bringing together print, multi-media and online texts to support engagement and differentiated instruction. High-interest, 21st century topics focus students, and achievement is scaffolded through a model of explicit literacy instruction.

** D – // ReFORMation: A Revolution in Text Forms // **

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Melanie White, Longfields Davidson-Heights Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: ** This workshop is intended to demonstrate emerging forms of text and how to use them to support traditional literacy, and traditional texts in the English classroom. Forms that will be explored include Twitter, Facebook, and podcasts.

** E// -- // **//** From Text to Film: Making Videos in the Classroom **//

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Chris Kesner, Earl of March Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: **This session will focus on using multi-media in the classroom and moving from text to digital narratives. Specifically, we will focus on using digital cameras to film written scripts and then import these videos into the computer for video editing. We will touch on using background music, scene transitions, and some usages of effects.

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** F – // Two Media units: Using Music Video and Documentary in the English Classroom // **

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Cathy Haley and Mary Williamson, Hillcrest High School

** Workshop Goals: ** Analysis of these two genres meets many of the expectations for the Media strand. The workshop gives ideas and information about how to incorporate them into your courses and how they can be turned into summative assignments that are primarily oral.

** G – //Using Pecha Kucha 20 x 20 Presentations in the English Classroom (AM and PM) // **

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Scott Gordon, Woodroffee High School

** Workshop Goals: ** Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", Pecha Kucha rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Presentations are simple and versatile enough to be adapted to virtually any subject in the English classroom. These type of presentations work equally well for indivdual presenters, partners or larger groups. They allow teachers to incorporate media into their classroom in a manageable way using easily accessible programs like PowerPoint or PhotoStory. Presentation will show examples of these presentations, provide examples of assignments, discuss evaluation strategies and provide tips. Given the versatility of the presentation format, the audience could be any English teacher (intermediate, senior, applied, academic).

** H – //Bitstrips// ****// 2½ //****// Ways (AM and PM) //**

** Block: ** Morning

** Facilitator: ** Nancy Faraday, Erica Lawrence and Daniel Haye, John McCrae Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: ** Nancy, Erica, and Dan present Bitstrips.com, an online comic strip authoring system to which every Ontario teacher has free access. The workshop covers building an avatar, setting up a class and creating an activity. Nancy, Erica, and Dan show examples of activities and completed strips that address media expectations, metacognitive expectations, visual communication expectations, reading expectations, and critical and creative thinking skills.

** Afternoon Sessions ** ** ( **** 12:55 **** — **** 02:10 **** Afternoon Workshop Session) **

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** I – // Engaging Students in Learning 21st Century Skills // **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Elaine Rose, Educational consultant, author, a former OCDSB English teacher, and Secondary Literacy Instructional coach

** Workshop Goals: ** Teachers and researchers agree: engagement is the key to learning. But how do we engage students in deeper learning in a fast-paced world of tweets and sound bites? This session provides instructional strategies that engage students in focused learning and skill development essential to this age.

** J – //Board-licensed Software and the English Curriculum// **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Shelley Burnside, Itinerant Teacher - Assistive Technology & Cathy Amini, Secondary Literacy Instructional coach

** Workshop Goals: ** Participants will gain expertise in applying board and ministry licensed software (Smart Ideas and Premier – Universal Reader and Talking Word Processor) to read, write, and explore media texts, as well as to use listening skills for editing. Although presented in the context of a specific English lesson, the application of these programs will transfer across all grades and levels.

** K – //Projecting Confidence: Tips on Delivering Speeches for Senior Students// **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Jennifer Braaksma, Earl of March Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: ** This hands-on workshop will offer tips and strategies to help senior students deliver effective speeches and presentations. We will focus on voice projection, body language, inflection, pitch and tone. We will also examine the use of speaker’s notes to help prepare the delivery. The emphasis will be on expressing energy, no matter what the topic. And, you’ll get the chance to try out your own skills on stage. Learn to deliver a speech that is powerful, persuasive and, above all, passionate.

** L – //Sentence Smarts// **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** John Frogley, Cantebury High School

** Workshop Goals: ** A lake cannot rise above its source. Nor can oral and written communication transcend your sentence smarts. So, just how sentence smart are you? How about your students? Bring a favourite quotation to the workshop and unleash its power to develop speaking skills and sentence smarts. You will have a good time and take away two gifts that will leave you scratching your head and saying, “Brilliant, the man’s a genius. Why didn’t I think of that?”

** M – // Character Education + // ****// Reading //****// and Writing = Improved OSSLT Results //**

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Sharon Martinson, Carine Wilson Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: ** ELS2O is an open level course that focuses on literacy skills with the intention of achieving improved success on the OSSLT and basic literacy skills in general. When taught using activities, stories etc. that promote and teach Character Education, students demonstrate a high level of engagement and the result is improved quality of work and higher achievement levels. The concept of teaching Character Education and Literacy at the same time can be achieved at any grade, level, or course.

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** N – //Comic Conventions: Applying Media Conventions to Student Assessments// **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Alicia Salyi, Earl of March Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: ** This workshop will provide teachers with information, resources, and active learning, on how to apply the conventions from the media strand, specifically in regards to graphic texts (e.g. graphic novels, comics) to practical assessments. This workshop is for teachers looking for interesting ways for students to visualise their understanding of texts, and how they can transfer it to a media text. Reading graphic texts such as graphic novels, advertising, and diagrams, require essential literacy skills including visualization, synthesizing, and the ability to activate background knowledge, which are all needed to understand the growing visual world around us.

Workshop leader Alicia Salyi will model how to teach students about the conventions found in graphic texts, and how she engaged her students interested in comparing different types of text. She will then explain how she turned an ENG1D mythology unit assessment, into active, hands- on, and engaging area of study, on how to portray learned material, in a media format. Samples of student work will be available for this highly transferable media lesson.

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** O – //Using Pecha Kucha 20 x 20 Presentations in the English Classroom (AM and PM) // **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Scott Gordon, Woodroffee High School

** Workshop Goals: ** Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", Pecha Kucha rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Presentations are simple and versatile enough to be adapted to virtually any subject in the English classroom. These type of presentations work equally well for indivdual presenters, partners or larger groups. They allow teachers to incorporate media into their classroom in a manageable way using easily accessible programs like PowerPoint or PhotoStory. Presentation will show examples of these presentations, provide examples of assignments, discuss evaluation strategies and provide tips. Given the versatility of the presentation format, the audience could be any English teacher (intermediate, senior, applied, academic).

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** P – //Bitstrips// ****// 2½ //****// Ways //**** // (AM and PM) // **

** Block: ** Afternoon

** Facilitator: ** Nancy Faraday, Erica Lawrence and Daniel Haye, John McCrae Secondary School

** Workshop Goals: ** Nancy, Erica, and Dan present Bitstrips.com, an online comic strip authoring system to which every Ontario teacher has free access. The workshop covers building an avatar, setting up a class and creating an activity. Nancy, Erica and Dan show examples of activities and completed strips that address media expectations, metacognitive expectations, visual communication expectations, reading expectations, and critical and creative thinking skills.


 * Strand-Ed English PD Day ** is the creation of the OCDSB English Professional Development Day Subject Council Committee, consisting of Aimee Barber, Jen Braaksma, Joanna Carter, Robert Godwin, Toby Hunt McCoy, Chris Kesner, Marlene McCrae, Erin McHale, Kristin Riddell, Kristy Robinson, Val Twolan-Graham, and Melanie White.

Special thanks to: Colin Anderson, Principal at West Carleton Secondary School, Principals, Department Heads, Perma Bound, Oxford Publishing, Pearson Publishing, Nelson Publishing, Bacon & Hughes, Starbucks, Direnzo's, Cathy Amini, Gwen Babcock, Jen Braaksma, Shelley Burnside, Nancy Faraday, Jamie Fraser, John Frogley, Scott Gordon, Cathy Haley, Daniel Haye, Chris Kesner, Erica Lawrence, Sharon Martinson, Elaine Rose, Alicia Salyi, Jane Tallim, Mary Williamson, Melanie White, and Cathy Wing.