Educators
Particpants:
Bre Pettis
Jonny Goldstein
Jen Simmons
Panel: The Vlogging Teacher
Teachers are using video on the internet to add new dimensions to their classroom, find an authentic audience for student work, and empower their students to become media-makers. This panel is made up of teachers who are on the cutting edge of curriculum by using video and video-blogs in their real and virtual classrooms with their students.
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Bre Pettis is a Seattle-based artist who makes things and interviews people about innovation, invention and all things DIY. When he’s not connected in a mind meld with his blog at http://imakethings.com, Bre collects plastic dinosaurs. Bre founded http://wearethemedia.com, the community blog about vlogs and video podcasts for Make Magazine’s Blog, http://makezine.com/blog.
Jonny Goldstein (BX21.org, jonnygoldstein.com, wearethemedia.com) is a NYC based technology educator, public speaker, and media maker. He developed and currently directs the technology education portion of the BX21 afterschool program in the Bronx where 80 inner city teens learned to videoblog last year. Jonny writes about videoblogging at wearethemedia.com and evangelizes the medium at universities, retail stores, museums, and media organizations.
Jen Simmons is a multimedia artist in filmmaker with over 15 years experience in theater, media arts and computer arts technology. She is currently finishing the interactive projection design for Violet Fire:
A Multimedia Opera about Nikola Tesla for its world premiere in Belgrade, Serbia in July and the U.S. premiere at the BAM New Wave Festival in October 2006. Jen also recently wrote and directed two
short films, Bush for Peace and Inclinations, that have screened in numerous international film festivals including Rotterdam, Resfest, Media That Matters, [R][R][F], NewFest, Outfest, and Frameline. This
past year Jen taught to courses on videoblogging as an adjunct professor at the Temple University film school. And Jen’s biggest claimto fame is the two years she spent teaching with Michael Verdi at the
SAY SÃ Media Arts Program in San Antonio Texas. Jen also designs standards-based websites for cash, to prevent the starving artist syndrome. Check out her work at jensimmons.com.