Harnessing images, text and sound for education conference at UPEI
Researchers and educators who are interested in using multimedia in education in a cultural context will be able to take part in a conference at UPEI called 'Harnessing Images, Text and Sound for Education in the Context of Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition' (Hits for Education: CMTC). The event takes place on the UPEI campus from July 26 to 28.
Participants will share ideas, information, and methods on the uses of audio-visual and text-based technology. The aim is to develop, by the end of the conference, a set of guidelines and best practices that will assist others to make appropriate choices in this rapidly growing educational field.
'Electronic multimedia technologies provide abundant choices for educators,' says UPEI psychology professor, Dr. Annabel Cohen, convener of the conference. 'Their choices, however, are based, very often, on intuition and familiarity rather than on empirically or theoretically based guidelines.'
The keynote speaker is Ellen Rose. Dr. Rose holds the McCain-Aliant Telecom Professorship in Multimedia and Instructional Design at the University of New Brunswick.
The conference will feature presentations addressing education from the perspective of four interconnected areas: culture, multimedia, technology, and cognition. One highlight will be a K-12 round-table discussion on ways to use multimedia technologies in the classroom, along with issues that may arise from doing so.
All conference events take place at Don and Marion McDougall Hall and are open to professionals or laypersons interested in the role of electronic media in education. Regular registration for the entire event costs $300, including meals; K-12 teachers' registration is half price at $150; and the student rate is $75. As well, three travel bursaries, of $200 each, are available for students attending universities in the Maritime provinces who would like to participate in the conference. A $100 prize for the best student academic poster will also be awarded as an incentive for UPEI students to become involved.
Click here for more info or by contacting Denise Beaton at (902) 566-6023. UPEI student volunteers are welcome to assist and attend.
The conference is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and arose through a tri-university collaboration led by the University of Prince Edward Island and with the University of New Brunswick and l'Université de Moncton, and is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
