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John Gibson, Faculty, Business and Information Technology, Glendale Community College
Oris Friesen, Director of the eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students (eSATS) and Faculty, Mesa Community College
Florence Martin, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, University of North Carolina–Wilmington

As international culture and commerce become increasingly reliant on visual communications, visual literacy has developed into an essential skill for 21st-century college graduates. With advancements in technology and the digitizing of information, digital literacy has also grown in importance. Digital visual literacy (DVL) is the ability to critically analyze digital visual materials, create effective visual communications, and make judgments and decisions using visual representations of thoughts and ideas. These skills, which actively engage our cognitive processing of visual images, have evolved from concepts at the intersection of a range of established disciplines. This session will discuss this exciting new literacy, showcase the free materials developed under a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant, and share recent feedback from instructors who have integrated these pioneering instructional modules into their courses. The discussion will benefit faculty, staff, and administrators infusing their curriculum with fresh IT skills.

Associate Research Professor,
Department of Psychology and Associate Director
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
Carnegie Mellon University

As educators, Lovett says, we tend to focus on teaching students "content," but we also want to help students develop as learners. Metacognition—thinking about one's own thinking and reflecting on one's own learning—is essential to achieving both goals, and yet instructors often feel they lack the time or expertise to teach their students metacognitive skills. This presentation offers a second opportunity to hear Lovett's popular featured session from the 2008 ELI Annual Meeting.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Trinity University

For more than 15 years Aaron Delwiche has studied ways that the Internet can be used to promote global dialogue. With one foot in industry and the other in the academy, he has lived in Osaka, San Francisco, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seattle, and San Antonio.

In 1995, as a project manager with Free Range Media, he oversaw the entry of the Christian Science Monitor into the world of online journalism. Working closely with Tom Regan, he published and promoted journalist David Rhode's Pulitzer-prize winning exposé of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. From 1999 to 2002, as the director of Interface Development at Lemon Asia, he facilitated the regional expansion of Hong Kong's leading interactive agency into Singapore and China.

Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Delwiche teaches courses on cyberculture, game design and criticism, film studies, and propaganda. His innovative experiments with virtual worlds in the classroom have been covered by international publications ranging from Wired to The Guardian. Recently, he spent six months in Thailand studying the behaviors and attitudes of young gamers who congregate in cybercafes to play online games such as Ragnarok Online and Lineage II. A gamer, researcher, and educator, Delwiche writes widely about virtual worlds and is the cofounder of the virtual world consultancy Elastic Collision.

Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legislative Affairs
Computer and Communications Industry Association

The copyright legislative process in Washington traditionally focuses on increasing the protection provided to copyrights, based on the assumption that this will strengthen the economy. Recent research, however, indicates that exceptions to copyright protection also promote innovation and are a major catalyst of U.S. economic growth. Specific exceptions to copyright protection under U.S. and international law, generally classified under the broad heading of fair use, are vital to many industries and stimulate growth across the economy. In fact, business enterprises that benefit from fair use generate substantial revenue, employ millions of workers, and, in 2006, represented one-sixth of total U.S. gross domestic product. This economic research suggests that future copyright legislation needs to account for these important limitations if the policy-making process is to stimulate growth.

Deirdre Woods, Associate Dean and Chief Information Officer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Walter Harp, Group Product Manager, Microsoft