Illuminates hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities – globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism – youth are resisting through what we recognize as a decolonial cultural politic. The book contributes to current scholarship in multicultural education, seeking to understand the vilification of youth (of color) for the social problems created by a global system that benefits a small minority. In an age of corporate globalization, Hip-Hop(e) highlights the importance of research projects that link the production of educational scholarship with the cultural activities, everyday practice, and social concerns of global youth in order to ameliorate social, economic, and political problems that transcend national boundaries.

I look forward to hearing your feedback on the subject.

JULY 23-27, Urban Word NYC and the University of Wisconsin’s First Wave Program host the “North American Association of Summer Sessions – Creative and Innovative Program Award” winning 7th Annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Educator & Community Leader Training Institute. This program is the most in depth and hands on training that Urban Word hosts, and features Taylor Mali, Mahogany L. Browne, Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Adam Falkner, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Dr. Christopher Edmin, Sam Seidel, and Dr. Dawn Elissa-Fischer. To register go here <http://omai.wisc.edu/> . (Full schedule attached)

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS> Urban Word’s flagship training, the Preemptive Education Conference will take place across the New York City on September 28-30 and we are looking for professional development workshops, lectures, respondents and more around three foundational pillars:

• Professional Development
•  Digital Learning
• Student-Centered Freirian Pedagogy

We are seeking workshop sessions that will focus on the history of Hip-Hop and education, how the movement has progressed including an overview of the many resources currently available for educators. These workshops will also incorporate a theoretical model for developing and utilizing a Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy.  They will also present a “Hip-Hop & Social Justice model for Hip-Hop and education, as well as samples of practical application, because at its root a hip-hop pedagogy seeks to produce an authentic relationship between hip-hop and educational development.

We are also seeking workshops that focus on the incorporation of dramatic exercises based on the arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. In these workshops, participants should experience an interactive theatre workshop focusing on their “reading” of the world around them and their contribution to “re-writing” their world as they become agents of change.

Finally, we are looking for workshops that will integrate and build from our three foundational pillars. Workshops should be geared towards (a) teaching artists in spoken word and hip-hop arts, (b) NYU students, and (c) NYC public school teachers. The workshops will be 85 minutes long on either Saturday or Sunday. Please send a brief title and workshop description that you think would (1) be a strong session in line with the foundational pillars offered, and (2) would best serve either spoken/word hip-hop educators, NYU students or NYC public school teachers.

Please send workshop proposal to

Michael@urbanwordnyc.org

Upcoming Conference from Google Education (Hangouts On Air)
The conference is entirely virtual, online. All the sessions are being given using Google+ Hangouts On Air. To join Google+ visit www.google.com/+.
May 2, 2012 3PM EST

This presentation discusses the affordances and constraints of using Google Apps for Education to deliver a technology class with a hip-hop theme for secondary institutions. The goal was to increase the literacy skills of youth using a topic the students had self-expressed an interest in (hip-hop). Please see https://sites.google.com/site/eduonair/a-global-hip-hop-passport to sign up for this session.

The OSU Hiphop Literacies Conference (May 9-11, 2012, Columbus, Ohio) seeks to put scholars, educators, students and the community in dialogue.
Hiphop and Black popular culture are central to global youth culture. An artistic, social, and cultural movement, it is diverse and reflects the local histories, cultures and concerns of its worldwide practitioners, while adhering to Hiphop’s ideological and aesthetic imperatives. THE CONFERENCE IS FREE, BUT YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE AT http://osuhiphopliteraciesconference.eventbrite.com MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT* http://ehe.osu.edu/edtl/hip-hop-literacies.php

CFP: Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: “Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/45334

Submission Deadline: April 23, 2012
Meeting: September 28-29, 2012 Atlanta, GA

The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) present the first annual Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: “Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination.” In the fifteen years since Shakur’s passing, the TASF has continued to cultivate the legacy and sociocultural impact of his life and works. As part of this effort, the TASF and Shakur Estate partnered with the AUC Woodruff Library to collect and curate the papers, letters, images, and other archival materials of the hip hop artist. In 2011, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection, housed at the Library, was opened to the public to promote scholarship and research of a multi-dimensional artist who helped define a musical genre.

To commemorate the opening of the historic collection, this two-day academic conference will convene scholars, educators, and students to present papers on themes related to the life and works of Tupac Shakur, education, and Hip Hop culture more broadly. The following are some suggested (but not required) sub-topics:

• Tupac and education, pedagogy, and/or epistemology
• Hip Hop in college curriculum
• Hip Hop Studies and authorship (i.e. who counts as an author?)
• What counts as an archive? How do we preserve Hip Hop culture?
• Hip Hop as literary genre (autobiography, drama, poetry, etc).
• Hip Hop as history
• Hip Hop and information literacy
• Scholar Advocacy for Hip Hop archives
• Archivists as partners in teaching, learning, and scholarship of Hip Hop Studies

Submission of paper abstracts should be approximately 300 words. Panel proposals (of either 3 or 4 papers per panel) should be approximately 500 words. All proposals should address the themes of this year’s conference “Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination” and include presenters’ institutional affiliations, a 50-word biography, and appropriate email address. Please e-mail all proposals to ShakurConference@auctr.edu by April 23, 2012. Accepted papers and panels will be announced by/on June 15, 2012, and the conference will take place on September 28-29, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Questions? Contact: ShakurConference@auctr.edu

Program Committee:
Courtney Chartier (Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library)
Samuel Livingston (Morehouse College)
James Peterson (Lehigh University)
Georgia Roberts (University of Washington)

Conference website: http://research.auctr.edu/ShakurConference

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library website: www.auctr.edu

TASF website: www.tasf.org

Read more at: https://sites.google.com/site/eduonair/a-global-hip-hop-passport

]]> http://akesha.com/site/?feed=rss2&p=327 0 http://akesha.com/site/?p=324 http://akesha.com/site/?p=324#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:07:45 +0000 admin http://akesha.com/site/?p=324 This is an list of Educational Technology and Related Education Conference taking place in April.  This list comes from a large compilation prepared by Clayton R. Wright, crwr77[at] gmail[dot]com

April 2012

April 1-3, 2012 RosEvaluation Conference: Assessment for Program and Institutional Accreditation, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. http://www.rose-hulman.edu/offices-services/institutional-research,-planning-and-assessment/2011-rosevaluation-conference.aspx

April 1-4, 2012 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, (AACRAO) Transfer Conference, 98th, Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/meetings/

April 1-5, 2012 European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 34th, Barcelona, Spain. http://ecir2012.upf.edu/

April 2-4, 2012 International Conference on Networked Learning, 8th, hosted by the Open University of the Netherlands, Maastricht, the Netherlands.http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/

April 2-4, 2012 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/

April 2-4, 2012 Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE), sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Phuket, Thailand. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-770.html

April 2-4, 2012 South Africa Basic Education Conference, Durban, South Africa. http://www.education-conference.co.za/

April 2-4, 2012 Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) Winter Conference: Professional Development of Teacher Educators – Bringing Together Policy, Practice and Research, 4th, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. http://atee.macam.ac.il/Pages/Aims.aspx

April 2-May 4, 2012 Faculty Development for First-Year Seminar Instructors, organized by the University of South Carolina National Resource Center, offered online.http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/upcoming.html

April 3-7, 2012 National Business Education Association, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.nbea.org/

April 9-13, 2012 International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, 23rd, Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA.http://www.teachlearn.org/

April 10-13, 2012 Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE), Norfolk, Virginia, USA. http://www.coabe.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=conferences

April 10-13, 2012 CiTE, The Pearson eCollege Users Conference, J. W. Marriott Grand Lakes, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://pearsoncite.com/

April 11-13, 2012 Mobile Learning Experience Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://mobile2012.org/

April 11-13, 2012 International Gender and Education Association Conference: Gender and Democracy – Gender Research in Times of Change, 9th, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. http://www.genderandeducation.com/ or http://www.ips.gu.se/english/cooperation/conferences/gea2012/

April 11-13, 2012 Librarians’ Information Literacy (LILAC) Annual Conference, Caledonian University, Glasgow, The United Kingdom. http://lilacconference.com/WP/

April 11-13, 2012 Asia-Pacific Web Conference, 14th, Kunming, China. http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/apweb2012/

April 11-13, 2012 Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ): Shift Happens- Resilience, Relevance and Reform, Wellington, New Zealand.http://www.deanz.org.nz/home/index.php/deanz-conference-2012

April 11-13, 2012 National Nurse Education Conference: Keeping the Flame a Light, 14th, Perth, Australia. http://www.iceaustralia.com/nnec2012/

April 11-14, 2012 National Service-Learning Conference, 23rd, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.nylc.org/national-service-learning-conference

April 11-14, 2012 Museums and the Web 2012, Sheraton Marina, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html

April 11-14, 2012 Council for Exceptional Children Convention and Expo, Denver, Colorado, USA.http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ProfessionalDevelopment/ConventionExpo/

April 12-13, 2012 Blueprint for Educational Excellence National Institute, Reading, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.blueribbonschools.com/conferences

April 12-13, 2012 STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Annual Conference: Aiming for Excellence in STEM Learning and Teaching, Imperial College, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/academyevents/STEM_annual_conf

April 12-14, 2012 Department and Division Chair Workshop, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.cic.edu/

April 13-14, 2012 Open Source Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://open-source-scotland.com/2012/

April 13-17, 2012 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting: Non Satis Scire – To Know Is Not Enough, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.http://www.aera.net/

April 14, 2012 One Voice Sacramento International Conference and Forum for Educators: Educators United for Positive Change in Education, Sacramento, California, USA.http://www.elementalethics.com/

April 14-18, 2012 Texas Distance Learning Association Conference, 15th, Sheraton Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://www.txdla.org/events.asp

April 15-17, 2012 Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Annual Conference, 86th, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, USA.http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html#calendar

April 15-17, 2012 Technology and Innovation in Education (TIE) 2012: Together in Excellence, 26th annual, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.http://conference.tie.net/

April 15-18, 2012 International Federation of Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) World Conference and Exhibition: The Making of a Sustainable Workforce for the 21st Century Organizations, 41st, Kuwait Sheraton Hotel, Kuwait City, Kuwait. http://www.iftdo.net/

April 16-17, 2012 International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization (II-SDV), Nice, France. http://www.ii-sdv.com/home-page.html

April 16-17, 2012 International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ICIME), 3rd, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey. http://academic-conferences.org/icime/icime2012/icime12-home.htm

April 16-17, 2012 Engaging Hearts and Minds: An Agenda for Global Citizenship Education, sponsored by Centennial Collage, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.http://www.accc.ca/ftp/events/201204_centennial_hearts_minds.pdf

April 16-18, 2012 Open Courseware Consortium Global Meeting: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education, Cambridge, The United Kingdom.http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/index.php/2012/uk

April 16-18, 2012 International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CESDU), 4th, Porto, Portugal. http://www.csedu.org/

April 16-18, 2012 International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 9th, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.itng.info/

April 16-18, 2012 Digital Media Europe 2012, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.ifra.com/website/ifraevent.nsf/wuis/7BD82D06CC50904AC125786C0016663E?OpenDocument&CS&E&

April 16-18, 2012 Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE), Dublin, Ireland. http://www.iicedu.org/

April 16-20, 2012 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012), 21st annual, Lyon, France. http://www2012.org/

April 16-21, 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), 2nd, Porto, Portugal. http://closer.scitevents.org/

April 17-18, 2012 Swiss eLearning Conference (SeLC): Mobile Learning, Zurich, Switzerland. http://selc.ch/content/index_eng.html

April 17-18, 2012 Sandbox Summit@MIT, 3rd annual, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.sandboxsummit.org/events.html

April 17-19, 2012 Technology, Colleges, and Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference, 17th annual, to be held online. http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu

April 17-19, 2012 Connecting Rural Communities Asia Forum, 5th annual, New Delhi, India. http://www.events.cto.int/CRCAsia2011

April 17-20, 2012 IEEE Engineering Education (EDUCON2012), Marrakesh, Morocco. http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2012/index.htm

April 17-20, 2012 Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference, 10th, Adelaide, South Australia. http://www.sapmea.asn.au/conventions/qpr2012/index.html

April 18-20, 2012 Distance Library Services Conference, 15th, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. http://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2012/

April 18-20, 2012 Plymouth e-Learning Conference (PELeCON): Create, Connect, Collaborate – Learning in New Dimensions, 7th, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, The United Kingdom. http://www.pelecon.co.uk/

April 18-21, 2012 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 8th, Porto, Portugal. http://www.webist.org/

April 18-21, 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Sciences (CLOSER 2011), 2nd, Porto, Portugal. http://closer.scitevents.org/

April 18-23, 2012 International Performance Improvement Conference, 50th, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ispi.org/

April 19-21, 2012 European Teacher Education Network (ETEN) Annual Conference, Coimbra, Portugal. http://www.eten-online.org/ orhttp://www1.esec.pt/pagina/eten2012/

April 19-21, 2012 The Global EdTEch Forum: Integrating Technology and Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.edtechforum.com/

April 19-21, 2012 American Society for Indexing Conference, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi7.dll/4DCGI/events/285.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=285&

April 20-21, 2012 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges South Central Regional Conference, 23rd, West Texas A & M University, Canyon, Texas. USA.http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/ccsc/

April 21-23, 2012 National School Boards Association, 72nd, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
http://www.nsba.org/conference/

April 21-24, 2012 American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Annual Convention: 21st Century Vision – Igniting Innovation, 92nd, Orlando, Florida, USA.http://www.aacc.nche.edu/

April 22-25, 2012 National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), 19th annual, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.naccu.org/

April 22-26, 2012 Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ciceducation.org/

April 22-27, 2012 Comparative and International Education Society Conference, 56th annual, Caribe Hilton, San Juan Puerto Rica. http://www.cies2012.psu.edu/

April 23-24, 2012 European Conference on Intellectual Capital, 4th, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland. http://academic-conferences.org/ecic/ecic2012/ecic12-home.htm

April 23-24, 2012 Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop: Perfecting the Blend, 9th annual, Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. http://sloanconsortium.org/blended

April 23-24, 2012 International Conference on Research Facilities, organized by Tradeline, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.tradelineinc.com/conferences/719BCCA8-C29C-DD41-AC7767297B7C6323

April 23-24, 2012 National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference, 6th, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.student-teacher-supervision.org/

April 23-25, 2012 International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2011), 19th, sponsored by IEEE, Jounieh, Lebanon. http://www.ict2012.org/

April 24-26, 2012 International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, 4th, Canadian University of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.http://www.ndtconf.org/index.php

April 25-26, 2012 HRD Learning and Organisation Development Conference and Exhibition: Shape the Future of Your Organisation through Your People, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.cipd.co.uk/cande/hrd

April 25-27, 2012 European Next Web Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://thenextweb.com/conference/

April 25-27, 2012 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Spring Congress, Venice, Italy. http://www.waset.org/

April 25-27, 2012 International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society, Venice Italy. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/italy/icdgs/

April 25-28, 2012 Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://caie-caei.org/?lang=en_us

April 25-28, 2012 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.nctm.org/conferences/default.aspx?id=52

April 26-27, 2012 International Scientific Conference on eLearning and Software for Education (eLSE), 8th, Bucharest, Romania. http://www.adlunap.ro/else2011/

April 26-28, 2012 Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom (ACTC), Osaka, Japan. http://www.actc.iafor.org/

April 26-28, 2012 Asian Conference on Language Learning (ACLL), Osaka, Japan. http://www.acll.iafor.org/

April 26-28, 2012 International Conference on New Trends in Education and Their Implications (ICONTE), 3rd, Konyaalti-Antalya, Turkey. http://www.iconte.org/

April 28-29, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information and Network Technology, Chennai, India. http://www.icint.org/

April 29-May 1, 2012 The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International Conference and Annual Meeting (ICAM), San Diego, California, USA. http://www.aacsb.edu/ICAM2012/

April 29-May 1, 2012 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) International Meeting and Trade Show, 17th, San Jose, California, USA. www.americantelemed.org

April 29-May 2, 2012 Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK12) Conference, 2nd, Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

April 29-May 2, 2012 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), Annual Conference and Exhibition, 41st, J. W. Marriott Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.acuta.org/

April 29-May 2, 2012 United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) National Conference, 5th, Hilton at the Ball Park, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.http://www.usdla.org/2012-usdla-national-conference/

April 29-May 2, 2012 International Reading Association (IRA) Convention, 57th, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.reading.org/convention.aspx

April 29-May 4, 2012 International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia (NMEDIA 2012), 4th, Chamonix/Mont Blanc, France.http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/MMEDIA12.html

April ?, 2012 Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 15th, held every second year, ?, ?, USA. http://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/index.html

April ?, 2012 Canadian eLearning Conference (CeLC 2012), 10th, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.http://blogs.elearning.ualberta.ca/wpmu/celc2010/about/celc2012/

April ?, 2012 Opportunities and New Directions: Canadian Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/research_on_teaching_and_learning/index.html?tab=5

April ?, 2012 Moodle Moot UK 2011, hosted by the University of London, London, The United Kingdom. http://moodlemoot.org/ or http://moodlemootuk2011.org.uk/

You don’t have to be affiliated with MIT to participate. Everyone is encouraged to contribute your time, energy, and expertise to support student innovation as public service. All teams must be 1/3 MIT students to be eligible to win an award. To get started, register to be a part of the IDEAS Global Challenge, explore or define problems, get to know the teams, and ways you can contribute through the Help Wanted/Help Offered board. You can also sign up to be a volunteer with the IDEAS Global Challenge.

Passadena Room,
Penrith City Council,
601 High Street, Penrith

This dynamic workshop will feature presentations by Sophia Marinos, Creative Producer Big hART who will speak from the recent Namatjira project, Akesha Horton, fresh from her Fulbright residency at ICE and currently completing her doctorate at Michigan
State and Shakthi Sivanathan, Creative Director at CuriousWorks, on working with communities online through:

facilitating cultural exchanges across urban-rural-remote settings, developing digital literacy skills, building resilience, applying a structure for effective online learning environments and discussing strategy for meaningful engagement.
Please RSVP by Friday 13th April.

Sponsor: SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, First Level – East Ballroom A

Abstract: Increasingly, the lyrics, artistic, expression, and cultural work of hip-hop artists have been incorporated in schools. However, the hip-hop based pedagogy promoted by most educators often lack sound pedagogical considerations surrounding how hip-hop can be used to foster their students’ critical understanding of what is responsible for oppression, to provide insight on how to build democratic social movements, and challenge the foundation of schooling as a site to train students to compete for social and economic resources. Through empirical research, theoretical insights, and conceptual analysis, the participants (re)envision hip hop, so it that becomes a transformative pedagogy aimed at eliminating social inequalities, at fostering critical citizenship and at promoting social justice and equity in schools and society.

I will be presenting as part of the  Roundtable Session 100;

Hip-Hop as a Global Passport: Understanding How Youth in Urban Areas Construct Identities as Global Citizens