http://www.kymstewart.com media educator Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:34:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past term was quite exciting because for the first time I have stepped outside of my role as a media educator and took on a new role as a media education mentor. Although I truly missed teaching the students directly, working with teachers in two districts (Haida Gwaii and ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=59 On January 14th, 2008 I was fortunate enough to reconnect with a former colleague from the School of Communication, Dr. Roman Onufrijchuk. We were given the task to explore the question of how media could construct open spaces in learning. We did so by letting the audiences follow us through ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=58 On my way to Australia I am lucky enough to be stopping off in Korea for a quick, very quick, tour back to Ulsan where I conducted my Masters research. I am not only hoping to visit with friends and eat at my favourite restaurants, but I am also ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=52 Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers' Federation are pleased to announce the second National Media Education Week this November 5-9th. Various ceremonies will be held throughout the provinces. The Pacific Cinamatheque in Vancouver and BCAME are hosting two incredible workshops for secondary students where they will meet ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=53 IERG and the Learning Communities Research Area, University of Canberra are hosting the 6th Imagination and Education Conference this January. This will be the first time IERG has joined another organization to create a conference outside of Vancouver. This will be a more focused look at the use ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=51 I am so incredibly excited to finally attend a conference with other media educators! I often end up at conferences slotted in panels with either technology-loving folks or with other educators who, like myself, don't really seem to fit into the pedagogy of the time. So finally, I ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=47 Though I couldn’t see the prairie skies until the last couple days of the conference it was nice to be back in big sky country.   It was great to finally meet my fellow panel-members and we had a wonderful discussion about research involving First Nations people within British Columbia. I also ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=46 After months of planning and preparation, my media-education research finally began at Tahayghen Elementary school in Masset, Haida Gwaii. I decided that I would continue with the work on ‘advertising’ that I had begun in a Burnaby elementary classroom. As I gathered my materials on Sunday night, I was both ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=44 We got some nice press coverage for our project yesterday. Burnaby Now wrote a wonderful article describing some of our lessons and posted some cute pictures of the students as well... big ‘thanks’ to Burnaby Now for picking our research up! But, as always there is never enough space to ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=42 This project aims to build and interpret a complex holistic picture of First Nation students' media use before, during, and after a five-week transformative media education program at Tahayghen Elementary School in Masset, Haida Gwaii.  This project will provide the basis for my thesis research looking at methods of media ... http://www.kymstewart.com/?p=37