Join us this Friday! The SIMF Winter 2012 films will be screening live as part of International Ed Week @ Teachers College, Columbia University. Stay for the 3MinuteMedia curriculum/media jam.
When: 1-2:30 pm on Thursday, October 25 Where: 104B Russell Hall, Teachers College, Columbia University
Who & What: NYU’s Anna Smith will be sharing her exciting research that focuses on how a group of urban adolescent males developed as writers within and outside of school. Co-author (with Richard Andrews) of Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age(Open University Press, 2011).
Are there issues that you are passionate about that you would like to share? Have a socially conscious film or podcast that needs an audience?
Then submit an entry to 3MinuteMedia‘s 3rd Annual Social Issues Media Festival.
So, What’s Social Issue Media? We are referring to digital, multimedia artifacts (e.g., videos, audio podcast, digital story) that call attention to social issues with the intention of evoking social action.
Say More!? We want media that promotes action and awareness of all kinds-from lending your voice to promote an under-represented topics in your immediate context to perspective on larger global issues.
Why? This is an opportunity for us to work collectively as a world community to create awareness, raise questions, and open a dialogue on how we can meaningfully engage with issues facing the local and global contexts in which we participate.
How do you participate? It’s pretty simple:
Open to anyone
Entries are between 1-3 minutes in length
Entries can be submitted on a DVD or a via an URL
Entries will be accepted from Dec. 19, 2011-Feb 29, 2012