http://www.freepress.net/node/39070 Creating Media Reformers with Media EducationSpeakers: Bob McCannon, Rob WilliamsDate: Saturday, June 7th; 4:30pm to 6:00pmTrack: Media Reform Activism and Movement Buildingvideo produced by Rob McCausland"How do you turn Mr. and Ms. Apathy into media reform activists? Busy people become media reformers only when they realize that their most sacred cause is crippled by today’s Big Media monopolies. To make reform a top national issue, we need more people who understand media and the way it operates in our culture. But well-meaning media reformers and educators too often fail to motivate students and citizens. We can do better. Two nationally known media educators will share tips through inspiring, interactive, multimedia-driven techniques and content. A DVD with handouts and motivational clips will be provided."Bob McCannon, Action Coalition for Media Educationhttp://www.freepress.net/node/39205Bob has taught media education in middle, high and graduate school. He authored more than 40 resources, from college texts to videos, DVDs and CD-ROMs -- emphasizing a unique media-driven, interactive, Socratic methodology. Desiring truly independent media education, Bob co-founded the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME), the only national media education organization that takes no money from Big Media and has a code of ethics. In October 2008, Bob will become the only non-pediatrician to win the coveted Holroyd-Sherry Media Education Award for effectiveness and dedication to the welfare of children from the American Academy of Pediatrics for whom he has done dozens of workshops. Bob's skills programs and definitions have been adopted in most states and worldwide. His curricula cover media issues from reform and democracy to gender, debt, health, math, science, economics and history. Bob's latest project was to author a comprehensive review of the media education and media literacy research literature that appears in Children Adolescents and Media, a college text due out in July 2008 with surprising data, causing Bob to create new techniques for maximizing media education. Bob directed the New Mexico Media Literacy Project for 14 years. Bob's at mccannon@flash.net.Rob Williams, Action Coalition for Media Educationhttp://www.freepress.net/node/39309Rob Williams (www.robwilliamsmedia.com) is a Vermont-based musician, historian, consultant, journalist, and media educator/maker who teaches F2F and online history and media studies courses at Champlain College and Sacred Heart University; runs a media education/video production organization called MemeFILMS (www.memefilms.org); edits Vermont Commons newspaper (www.vtcommons.org); and serves as board co-president of the Action Coalition for Media Education (www.acmecoalition.org). When he is not playing with his two children and his 24 yaks, he roams the countryside with his guitar and laptop, singing and delivering presentations on a wide variety of media-related topics. Less