Digital arts and humanities festival on the UNC campus...

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities of UNC-Chapel Hill will present, for the first time, a digital arts and humanities festival on the UNC campus. The festival will celebrate collaborations among humanities, arts and technology, including their application to education. The festival, to be held Feb 16-20, is open to the public.

As part of the festival, the UNC School of Education is organizing sessions for K-12 teachers that translate festival topics into classroom-friendly ideas for integrating technology and teaching. Hands-on workshops will feature technologies such as Voice Thread, wikis, and handheld devices. Faculty and doctoral students from UNC and N.C. State will facilitate these sessions.

CHAT will draw together the region's diverse digital resources in performances, discussions, demonstrations and workshops. Festival events will explore ways in which digital technologies are changing how we learn, think, know, teach and express ourselves, both as individuals and as communities.

The URL for the festival is available at: www.chatfestival2010.com

I encourage you to visit the site to review the amazing list of presenters and diversity of topics.

The festival is providing registration at no-charge to all K-12 educators.

Best,

Björn Hennings

















The Intersection: Education, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship
February 16-20, 2010, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities will present a large-scale digital arts and
humanities festival on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. With three leading research
universities, a supercomputing center and a cluster of cutting-edge technology companies all closely located
here in the Triangle, UNC sits at an intersection of opportunity. The festival is an occasion to bring to light
existing collaborations between researchers in our region, to inspire new collaborations across the state, and to
reach out to all corners of North Carolina to share some of the valuable resources CHAT will spotlight.

Why digital arts and humanities? Students, teachers, politicians and community members can see and
participate in visual art exhibitions and music, dance and dramatic performances that use technology; they can
use a touch-screen or a mouse to manipulate interactive maps and storyboards; and regularly make use of
computerized archival systems, all in a very real way.

In times of economic adversity, in particular, technology can be a powerful tool for building and connecting
communities, for sharing or gaining knowledge. UNC will embrace this festival as an opportunity to use
technology to reach out to North Carolina’s K-12 teachers by offering a series of hands-on workshops and
translational sessions in technology topics. We recognize that times are tough, and budgets are tight. This is
one, small way that UNC can give back. These teaching clinics will offer teachers a hands-on experience, led by
technology experts, on ways to incorporate accessible technological tools into the classroom.

The Festival: Art, Performance and Collaboration
The Institute already has created exciting micro-level partnerships through faculty working groups that comprise
faculty and technologists from UNC, Duke, N.C. State and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). These
faculty working groups will present their projects during the festival—an exciting array of projects that
demonstrate the opportunities for innovative, collaborative arts and humanities work enabled by technology.
To promote discussion during the festival, the Institute is partnering at UNC with the School of Law, Kenan-Flagler
Business School, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library
Science to select and bring in keynote speakers on current issues in digital arts and humanities.
Technology in the classroom is an issue that extends beyond the University. As part of the festival, the School of
Education will partner to offer sessions for K-12 educators that translate festival topics into classroom-friendly
ideas for integrating technology and teaching. Faculty members, doctoral students, and local educators will
engage K-12 educators in roundtable discussions. These discussions will occur over lunch February 17, 18, and
19. Hands-on workshops are also planned for K-12 educators. Classroom teachers, technology specialists, and
administrators are invited to participate in these events.

Multimedia performances and panel discussions that include visiting artists, faculty, technology professionals,
students and audience members will round out the festival. The CHAT festival will be an opportunity for local and
national communities to witness and participate in ongoing digital arts and humanities projects by artists,
performers, scholars and technologists.

Visit WWW.CHATFESTIVAL2010.COM for information and to register.

Institute for the Arts and Humanities
www.chatfestival2010.com







CHAT Festival Registration Information
K-12 Educators





FAQs:

Who needs to register for the CHAT festival?
• Anyone who would like to participate in the festival events, including keynotes, panel
discussions, exhibitions, performances or workshops throughout the week will need to register.
Your registration entitles you to festival access throughout the week; you do not need to
register separately for each day. Registration also covers the cost of lunch each day. The only
program events not directly tied to registration are the STREB performances sponsored by
Carolina Performing Arts, which incur a separate fee, and the Festival on the Hill events
sponsored by the UNC Music Department, which are traditionally free of charge.

Where do I go to register?
• To link to our online registration program, please visit the CHAT festival website,
www.chatfestival2010.com. Once you are on the registration site, please register under the
classification: Speakers and Special Guests.

How much will it cost to register?
• As a K-12 educator, you are entitled to free festival registration. However, you will still need to
complete the online registration process using the validation code: FestTeacher, which will
ensure your registration is free of charge.

Can I register all attendees from my organization at once?
• Unfortunately, due to the data capture we are looking for, each person will need to register
separately.

Why is there a mandated registration for the festival?
• In researching other events of this scale and discussing options with event experts both in and
out of academia, the CHAT festival team has opted to institute a registration process for all
attendees. It is important to us that we have the ability to communicate easily with all
participants leading up to the festival, be able to track demographic information, and have the
ability to perform follow up surveys after the conclusion of the festival. Additionally, being able
to track registration numbers leading up to the festival will ensure that we can accommodate
our participants in the campus spaces we have reserved, and make adjustments as necessary.

Please contact Jeanine Simmons at 843-5464 or jeanine.simmons@unc.edu if you have any questions
about registration, or problems utilizing the registration system.


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Björn Hennings, Director
Carolina Center for Educational Excellence
School of Education
UNC-Chapel Hill
9201 Seawell School Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
phone: (919) 843-2874
fax: (919) 843-3580
email: hennings@unc.edu
internet: http://www.unc.edu/ccee/

World View Travel in 2010

TRAVEL WITH WORLD VIEW IN 2010!

World View is accepting applications for the following study visits:

BRAZIL
Learn about Brazil's youth, culture, history, and contemporary issues by traveling with World View. The tour will take us to the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia (Salvador, Cachoeira, Arambepe). Along this journey we will interact with people of different backgrounds, learning different facets of Brazilian culture. Participants will visit schools, cultural, historical, and natural sites to explore issues of education, race, class, and poverty. Gain the confidence to add global content to your teaching, make lasting connections, and help create a global learning environment at your college.
Dates: June 23 – July 5, 2010 (subject to change)
Cost: Estimated at $3,700

COSTA RICA
World View will now offer two study visits to COSTA RICA in July 2010. Join World View’s new study visit and learn first-hand about the culture and education of Costa Rica through the organization Spanish Immersion Costa Rica. Highlights of the itinerary include rural school visits, community service projects, museum and market visits in capital city San Jose, daily “Spanish for Educators” language classes, ecological excursions to waterfalls, volcanoes, rainforests, coastal attractions, and much more. Participants also will enjoy cultural activities through Costa Rican cooking and Latin dance instruction. All participants will stay with host families in the coffee growing community of Atenas, Costa Rica.

Dates: July 5-14 and July 22-31, 2010
Cost: Estimated at $1,900

For more information and application materials visit:
http://www.unc.edu/world/study_visits.shtml

"The Giants of Africa: Teaching Politics and Popular Culture in 20th Century Nigeria and South Africa.

"The Giants of Africa: Teaching Politics and Popular Culture in 20th Century Nigeria and South Africa." Dr. Lisa A. Lindsay, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will lead the workshop. It will be on Saturday January 30, 2010, from 10 am to 3 pm at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence.

Lisa will lead us through a workshop that will question our common assumptions about Africa in the twentieth century. After providing a framing overview of the decolonization experience in Africa, she will use the musician Fela and soccer as two case studies to explore new ways to teach African political economy, apartheid, and youth movements. Fela, for example was one of the world's most influential musicians in the late twentieth century. By combining American music styles and political movements with African rhythm, politics, and culture, Fela used music to speak out against the abuses of the recently de-colonized state of Nigeria.
Fela's life reveals how politics and culture intersect in ways that can broaden our understanding of what we think we know and broaden our approach to teaching the material to our students.

Lisa is an expert in late nineteenth and early twentieth century West Africa. Her current book project explores the connections between West Africa and the southern United States through the experience of one man and his family. She regularly teaches the popular course, the Atlantic Slave Trade, to undergraduates at UNC.

This workshop will be on Saturday January 30, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
It is free and open to the public, though donations are accepted to off-set workshop costs. Food and beverage are provided throughout the day.
Attendees can receive .5 CEUS. It will be at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellencee in Chapel Hill. The Center has ample parking.
Directions to the Center can be found here: www.unc.edu/ccee/directions

To register for this workshop, please fill out a brief survey:
http://uncodum.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_dgVrU73IljLTA8s&SVID=Prod

You can also register by sending an email to phe[at]unc.edu; please write "Registration" in the subject line.

For more information, including the competency goals this workshop meets, please see the attached flyer. Also, help spread the word about this workshop by passing on our flyer to your colleagues or directing them to the PHE blog: http://community.learnnc.org/weblogs/partners/phe/

Take care,
Catherine