Contributing to community life 2017-2018
Social Media Coordinator ChLA Conference: Summer/Fall 2016 and Spring/SUmmer 2017
At the request of conference organizers Jenifer Schneider and Melanie Griffin, who represented the USF College of Education and the USF Library Special Collections respectively, I created a Facebook page for the 2017 Children's Literature Association Conference that Melanie introduced at the 2016 conference. Throughout the summer of 2016, I posted the call for papers and attendees, teasers about the conference and about Tampa, and noted important deadline dates. Read about the development of the page and how it saved conference presenters from an April Fool's Day cyberglitch that threatened their equanimity HERE.
At the beginning of June, as soon as the official program was released, I went through the panels looking for themes. Each day I posted a grouping of 10-12 panels and, in the comments below, posted related places-to-go and things-to-do in the area.
During the conference, we posted images and videos from registration through the final awards banquet. At the banquet itself, I filmed the speech given by James Heneghan whose 1997 book, Wish Me Luck, won the 2017 Phoenix Award given by the Children's Literature Association to "a book originally published in the English language . . . which never won [an] award at the time publication, and which is still worthy of recognition" (https://chla.memberclicks.net/phoenix-award). The decision to film was somewhat last minute, and there was concern about permissions, etc. Nevertheless I captured the speech on a mini-iPad, edited it and sent it to the Communication Committee who posted it in the Association's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwYJmXphuqU&index=2&list=UUjgvW0-G8ybXhFahPNqRYJw&t=0s
At the beginning of June, as soon as the official program was released, I went through the panels looking for themes. Each day I posted a grouping of 10-12 panels and, in the comments below, posted related places-to-go and things-to-do in the area.
During the conference, we posted images and videos from registration through the final awards banquet. At the banquet itself, I filmed the speech given by James Heneghan whose 1997 book, Wish Me Luck, won the 2017 Phoenix Award given by the Children's Literature Association to "a book originally published in the English language . . . which never won [an] award at the time publication, and which is still worthy of recognition" (https://chla.memberclicks.net/phoenix-award). The decision to film was somewhat last minute, and there was concern about permissions, etc. Nevertheless I captured the speech on a mini-iPad, edited it and sent it to the Communication Committee who posted it in the Association's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwYJmXphuqU&index=2&list=UUjgvW0-G8ybXhFahPNqRYJw&t=0s
Facilitator and Co-Presenter Educators Workshop
In June 2017, I participated as a facilitator and co-presenter in an Educators Workshop titled Imagining Sustainability: Water, Wonders, and Waste, co-sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council and Eckerd College. Held on the Eckerd College campus in St. Petersburg, the workshop was offered to Florida science teachers, media specialists, teacher educators, museum and park docents, and similar professionals. During the week, participants explored water sustainability issues through games, literature, drama, poetry, art, and field trips. I helped facilitate a session of the role-playing game developed by Professor Dan Spoth. Following this activity, Professor Amanda Hagood and I presented a session on water sustainability as depicted in children's and young adult literature.
Guest Speaker for MAT class at USF
In November 2017, I presented a discussion of "scary" children's literature to Professor Jenifer Schneider's MAT students enrolled in LAE 6427: Children's Literature: Teaching Literary Appreciation and Literacy Instruction. I introduced them to different types of ChYA fiction and non-fiction that could be considered scary, including some sci-fi, disaster-themed fiction and non-fiction, humorous works that suggest we can laugh at our fears, and ghost stories for children and young adults. Following this introduction, I explained the concept of abjection and walked them through the real-life horror story children face too often in school as presented in Miriam Cohen's First Grade Takes a Test.
In June 2017, I participated as a facilitator and co-presenter in an Educators Workshop titled Imagining Sustainability: Water, Wonders, and Waste, co-sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council and Eckerd College. Held on the Eckerd College campus in St. Petersburg, the workshop was offered to Florida science teachers, media specialists, teacher educators, museum and park docents, and similar professionals. During the week, participants explored water sustainability issues through games, literature, drama, poetry, art, and field trips. I helped facilitate a session of the role-playing game developed by Professor Dan Spoth. Following this activity, Professor Amanda Hagood and I presented a session on water sustainability as depicted in children's and young adult literature.
Guest Speaker for MAT class at USF
In November 2017, I presented a discussion of "scary" children's literature to Professor Jenifer Schneider's MAT students enrolled in LAE 6427: Children's Literature: Teaching Literary Appreciation and Literacy Instruction. I introduced them to different types of ChYA fiction and non-fiction that could be considered scary, including some sci-fi, disaster-themed fiction and non-fiction, humorous works that suggest we can laugh at our fears, and ghost stories for children and young adults. Following this introduction, I explained the concept of abjection and walked them through the real-life horror story children face too often in school as presented in Miriam Cohen's First Grade Takes a Test.
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Judge Newspaper Contests
In March 2018, I served as a judge for the National Newspaper Association 2017 Better Newspaper Contest and/or Better Newspaper Advertising Contest. Best series ad idea, color (Non-daily Division, circ. more than 5,000); Best Multiple Advertiser Section (Daily and Non-Daily Divisions, circ. 10,000+); Best Performing Arts Story (All divisions). (Judging conducted 2018)
In May 2018, I served as a judge for the Milwaukee Press Club 2017 Contest. Best Overall Newspaper Design/Professional Division; Best Single Page Newspaper Design/Professional Division; Best Special Section Newspaper Design/Professional Division. (Judging conducted 2018).
In March 2018, I served as a judge for the National Newspaper Association 2017 Better Newspaper Contest and/or Better Newspaper Advertising Contest. Best series ad idea, color (Non-daily Division, circ. more than 5,000); Best Multiple Advertiser Section (Daily and Non-Daily Divisions, circ. 10,000+); Best Performing Arts Story (All divisions). (Judging conducted 2018)
In May 2018, I served as a judge for the Milwaukee Press Club 2017 Contest. Best Overall Newspaper Design/Professional Division; Best Single Page Newspaper Design/Professional Division; Best Special Section Newspaper Design/Professional Division. (Judging conducted 2018).