ETHICS ANYONE?

Ai New York City Digital Filmmaking faculty member Dorothy Rompalske is serving on the Organizing Committee for a two-day conference exploring media ethics starting on Friday, March 15 and concluding on Saturday, March 16.  The event is sponsored by the Brooklyn College Film Department and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.  All events are free and open to the public. 

Dorothy will also be producing and moderating a panel for this conference on the status of women in the entertainment industry, which will be held on Saturday, March 16 starting at 11:00 a.m. at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 230 West 41st St., Newsroom/R. 308, Third Floor, New York, NY.  For more information or to reserve a free seat, please click on http://globalmediaethics1.eventbrite.com for Friday's events and http://globalmediaethics2.eventbrite.com for Saturday's events. 

Mark your calendars!

WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY!

Ai New York City Faculty member Zachary Fabri is a person to watch for.  His video shorts, challenging stereotypes of race and class, have earned him a spot on The Huffington Post's "Black Artists:  30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know". 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/black-artists-under-40-contemporary-painters-sculptors-performance-race-representation-art_n_2725639.html#slide=2104256

His most recent film "Forget Me Not, as My Tether is Clipped" was shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem's group exhibition "Fore" which closed on March 10. 

http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/fore


Congratulations Zachari and we hope to see even more of your work!

AI NEW YORK CITY FACULTY MEMBER PRESENTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Ai New York City faculty member John Bandman was a workshop presenter at the 34th annual New York State TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Applied Linguistics Winter Conference on Saturday March 2.  The conference was held at Teachers College Columbia University.  John has an MA in TESOL and is CELTA certified by the University of Cambridge, England.  His presentation was entitled "Technology's Role in Incorporating Authentic Materials in Today's ESL Classroom". 

The summary of the conference from the TESOL conference website (http://www.nystesol.org/alwc2013.htm) appears below:

"Technology is being used in so many different ways for language education, and the 34th annual Applied Linguistics Winter Conference seeks to bring innovative ideas that implement technology in language teaching and insightful research of how technology can enhance language learning for second language learners. Attendees will gain insight into the possible ways learners can benefit from technology-mediated language teaching. Twitter, Facebook, Skype, interactive whiteboards, interactive and supplemental software, Google Docs, mobile apps... The possibilities are really endless, and as our world changes, the way people learn languages definitely changes as well."