Workshop+sessions

=Reporter Workshop Ideas, Questions, and Agendas=

Post your workshop agendas and other materials on this page.

 * Incorporating DMIN into your workshops: **

Everyone should mention the Digital Media Innovation Network in your workshops. Relevant information to share: - That this group of teachers and staff worked with Reporter over the summer and in their classrooms this fall. - That student work related to this project is posted on the online workshop space - []Anyone can logon to this site by using the name - info@facing.org password: Guest (capitol G)

Here is a description of the project that you can share with teachers: Making Media, Making Change, Making Sense, Facing History’s online student workshop allowed students to showcase and share classroom projects inspired by the documentary film Reporter where the students themselves took on the role of reporters, using digital technology and new media such as photojournalism, podcasts, and blogs to share stories about their own lives and communities. The workshop also brings the students together in conversation with other students, teachers, and Facing History staff members from many different parts of the United States, and the world.

 The participating students come from 15 different schools across North America and from as far away as China, London and South Africa. Their teachers are all participants in Facing History’s Digital Media Innovation Network, an initiative that explores classroom use of digital technology and new media to promote student engagement with history through the study of documentary films. This project is generously supported by the Ford Foundation and the Righteous Persons Foundation.

- For more information about DMIN, you can send teachers to this website and/or show them the DMIN video posted on the website: http://www.facinghistory.org/newmedia

=**NEW ENGLAND AGENDA** =

=CLEVELAND AGENDA=

** //Susan Oehler Herrick, Program Associate// ** Jill Penate, Program Assistant Mark Swaim-Fox-Director, Cleveland Region
 * __ A Facing History and Ourselves Workshop: __**
 * Reporter: Teaching About the Role of Journalism in a Democracy **
 * 4:00pm-7:30 pm **
 * Facilitators and Staff: **
 * //Pamela E. Donaldson, Senior Program Associate// **

 ** Essential Questions: ** 
 * 1) ** What is the role of a reporter? What media literacy tools can we use to interpret what we see and do not see in news reports? **
 * 2) ** How can the media affect the ways individual and groups understand their universe of responsibility? **
 * 3) ** Using the film Reporter with the Facing History study guide and approach, how can we encourage students to become civic agents in an age of genocide? **

Welcome-Mark Davidson, Director of Education-Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
 * __Agenda:__**

Facing History and Ourselves Overview and Introductions


 * Investigation 1: Why Don’t People Act? Confronting Psychic Numbing **

//Break//


 * Investigation 2: Should Reporters Advocate? Exploring the Role of Journalists **

//Break//


 * Investigation 4: What can we do to help? Education and Action **

// Next Steps/Evaluations //