The St. Kilda Film Festival recently screened Hús, an experimental film by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson (School of Media Arts & Design). The St. Kilda Film Festival takes place annually in June in the City of Port Phillip, Australia, and is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hús is a meditation on emigration and immigration, and features a […]
Erin Gillett, School of Teaching and Learning, along with colleagues Susan Ellingson and Teri Langlie, faculty in the Education Department at Concordia College, presented a session at the 2019 Literacy Conference in Moorhead on June 20. Their presentation, “What is Your Contingency Plan? Effective Scaffolding During Guided Reading,” examined how to provide targeted prompts with readers to support their use […]
Natalie Huntley, a May 2019 graduate in Elementary Inclusive Education, with additional licenses in special education and middle level math, presented a session at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Indianapolis June 13-15. Her presentation, “Somali Representation in Children’s Literature,” is the result of her efforts to find literature that reflects the lived experiences of Somali families. Huntley was an […]
MSUM, in partnership with Bytespeed, welcomed over 50 educators from across five states to campus to participate in a two-day certification course about the power of virtual reality in education. The course was led by world-class VR educator Corrine Hoisington, who has taught virtual reality for companies like Microsoft, Captial One and Cengage. This course, however, was the first in […]
Pam Werre, Curriculum Materials Center librarian, and Carol Sibley, Library Professor Emerita, presented at the Northern Lights Library Network “Better Together” conference on June 6, 2019. Werre and Sibley presented findings from their research on Vietnamese and Hmong juvenile refugee fiction published since the end of the Vietnam War. They also presented on the importance of diversity in children’s book […]