News and Events
Symposium on the Historical Roots of Media Literacy
Friday, September 20, 2013
URI, FEINSTEIN CAMPUS, DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE, RI
For more information please view the event flyer. 
Congratulations Graduates!
On May 19th the Harrington School of Communication and Media celebrated the achievements of this year's graduating honors students with a commencement award ceremony.
Public Relations Excellence Award Ceremony
Five remarkable Public Relations students were recognized at the Public Relations Excellence Award Ceremony on April 25, 2013 for their accomplishments in the following categories:
- Most Innovative - Zac Carpman
- Campus/Community Impact - Sydney Kempler
- Outstanding Internship Experience - Miriam Hamarneh
- Leadership Award - Jacqueline Atkins
Honorary Chairperson Elise Fitzgerald, URI Alum, Class of 2010, and currently employed at Burson Marsteller in New York City extended her greetings to the guests at the awards ceremony. In addition, three recent PR grads participated in the ceremony: Jamie DelVecchio now employed at South County Hospital; Danielle Baker currently pursuing her MBA at Bryant University and Mary Kate Winter currently employed at NAIL Communication in Providence.
This ceremony was the result of a collaborative effort involving the Public Relations Society at URI and the PR Program.
Media and Civic Engagement Showcase
May 1st, 6-8PM PAFF Auditorium, URI, 80 Washington St. Providence
Food, media and merriment! Come see media created for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence and find out more about the Urban Immersion program to see if it might be right for you! Questions?: contact Michelle Le Brun milebrun@mail.uri.edu
Media and Global Change
URI Harrington School students can earn 6 credits spending 3 weeks studying and living at the house where the classic movie, "The Sound of Music" was filmed, in the heart of historic Salzburg, Austria. The Seminar on Media and Global Change brings together a dozen faculty and 60 students from five continents gather to explore media literacy and freedom of expression, collaborating to address some of the largest challenges our world faces today: conflict, climate change, migration, religion, extremism, and more. Need-based scholarships for URI Harrington School students are available. URI students can apply for the program at www.uri.edu/international/salzburg. Students can contact Professor Kendall Moore to learn more about need-based scholarships that are available for students.
Ground Truth: Why It's Crucial for the U.S. to Have Reporters on the Ground in International Venues
Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m.
Pharmacy Building Auditorium, Flagg Road
The Annual Christiane Amanpour Lecture Series
Presenter: Charles Sennott, co-founder of Global Post, a global news website with over 70 reporters in 50 countries Learn about the future of international news in a digital age and hear about Sennott's experience in covering the Arab spring, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.This event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.
From Eroding Shores to Tick Encounters: Communicating Science to Non-Experts
Saturday, April 13, 11 a m – 12:30 p.m
Swan Hall Auditorium
View and discuss a powerful and evocative 17-minute film about soil erosion, created by Film/Media students and featuring Hurricane Sandy and experts from URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Learn more about how the URI faculty are developing research excellence in the area of Communicating Science.
Apply for the 2013 Scott Randall/Brand Games Original Film Treatment Prize
A $500 prize will be awarded to a student with the best original Film Treatment!
Eligibility is open to all current (including Dec. 2012 graduates) declared majors in the Harrington School of Communication and Media: Communication Studies, Film Media, Journalism, Library & Information Studies, Public Relations, and Writing & Rhetoric.
Click here for more information and forms for the award
Apply for the Fred Joyal Film Prize
Entries due: April 25, 2013 4:30 p.m.
Up to three $1,000 prizes will be awarded to students who demonstrate talent and promise as filmmakers, videographers, or computer animation artists.
Eligibility is open to all current (including Dec. 2012 graduates) declared majors in the Harrington School of Communication and Media: Communication Studies, Film Media, Journalism, Library & Information Studies, Public Relations, and Writing & Rhetoric.
Click here for more information and forms for the award.
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Assistant or Associate Professor in Public Relations
The University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication
and Media invites applications for a 9-month tenured or tenure-track
position at either the Assistant or Associate Professor level, with
anticipated start date in Fall 2013. The appropriate tenure department
and possible joint appointment(s) are negotiable.
The new interdisciplinary school is located in the College of Arts &
Sciences and is comprised of programs in communication studies,
journalism, public relations, film/media, library and information
studies, and writing and rhetoric. The individual we hire will be
instrumental in advancing the development of the Public Relations
major, which is the only selective admission degree program at the
Harrington School, enrolling nearly 200 of our best and brightest
students. The successful candidate will have significant prior
experience in public relations advocacy in the context of community,
corporate, governmental or non-profit organizations. The candidate
will have a track record of accomplishments as a public relations
professional as appropriate of the rank of assistant or associate
professor.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled.
Learn more and apply online:
Holocaust Remembrance Week, April 7-14
URI Hillel has planned a whole week of events to honor the memory of those who perished and inspire individuals to recommit to preventing future atrocities. Two Harrington School faculty members are involved in the week's events:
Elliott Caldwell, an archivist and part time lecturer will present Solving the Mystery of "The Little Valise" at the URI Library Galanti Lounge from 12-1 pm on Wednesday. Caldwell will trace the journey of a suitcase that traveled with Jewish refugees on the SS St. Louis in 1939, revealing the harrowing true story of a family's survival. For more information please view the flyer.
On Thursday in Swan Hall Auditorium at 7 pm there will be a Film Screening and Q & A of Kinderblock 66 with Director and Film/Media faculty, Rob Cohen. The film tells the story of Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivors. For more information please view the flyer.
These events are partially funded by the Fela and David Shapell Foundation and the URI Student Affairs Diversity Fund. For more information about these events, please contact Sabrina Brotons at sabrina_brotons@my.uri.edu or call Hillel at 401-874-2740 (www.urihillel.org).
Screening & Discussion with Filmmaker Eugene Martin about "The Anderson Monarchs"
Friday, April 5,12 - 1:30 p.m.
Join us in Davis Hall room 106 to meet filmmaker Eugene Martin, whose recent film, The Anderson Monarchs, is about an all-girls soccer team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA. Nominated in 2008 by Sports Illustrated as "Sports Team" of the year, they were also hailed as "the future of American Soccer" in the London newspaper, The Guardian. The documentary follows two girls, Jlon, age 11, and Kahlaa, age 10, through their formative years from 2009 to 2011. As the girls grow as soccer players, they learn more about their own abilities. The film celebrates the rights of young women and the community they are building for themselves as talented athletes, emerging scholars, and leaders.
GSLIS Conference: Catapult your Career in 2013!
Learn about careers in library and information studies and get the latest updates from librarians and information professionals in the New England region. Sponsored by the URI Student ALA.
DATE: Saturday, March 23, 2013
TIME: 9 am - 4 pm
LOCATION: Swan Hall, URI Kingston Campus
Learn more: http://www.uri.edu/studorg/gslisala/events/confref.html
Open Access: A Solution for Writers and Readers
Open access scholarship is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Learn about open access and how it helps both readers and writers in a digital age. Come participate in a discussion about open access led by Andrée Rathemacher of the University Libraries.
DATE: Tuesday, March 26
TIME: 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
LOCATION: Davis Hall, Room 10 Conference Room
A Conversation with Paula Lyons and Arnie Reisman: "Says You" Panelists Share the Secrets of their Success
Join award-winning writer, producer and performer Arnie Reisman and Paula Lyons, consumer editor for WBZ-Boston Channel 4, who are featured on NPR's weekly comedy quiz show, "Says You." They share the secrets of being an effective communicator. Learn how to build a successful career in the media at this engaging and entertaining event.
DATE: Friday, March 29
TIME: 2:30 - 4 p.m.
LOCATION: Lippett Hall Auditorium
Arnie Reisman. How writing for newspapers led to writing plays, sitcoms, television specials and documentaries and what else prepared Arnie for Radio Comedy.
"After my very first job, which I pursued like an attack dog, the rest of my jobs found me. But what looks like a kaleidoscope of careers are actually pieces that fit together quite logically."
You will learn:
The importance of an having a mentor
How editing newspapers from Middle School onward created a writer who could never stop
The value of networking and building relationships so that the "jobs find you."
How summer vacations in Vegas honed a young man's comic timin
Paula Lyons. How teaching, living in Argentina and a brief career in Political Public Relations led to Television News, Executive Coaching and Radio Comedy (or how to get ahead with a curly head)
You will learn:
How singing and acting in school can build confidence and comfort in performing
How wanting to "change the world" can lead to unexpected career opportunities
Why good writing and powerful speaking skills help you stand out in any crowd
How all of the above. and hanging out with a guy who spent summers in Vegas, can lead to a crazy, comedy radio show.
Chinese Movie Screening with the Director
Monday, March 4th 5:00-7:30 pm
Pharmacy Building, Rm. 170
Sponsored by the Harrington School of Communication and Media and URI Film/Media Program, as part of the FLM 495 Chinese Hollywood class event, award-winning film writer and director Peng Xiaolian will introduce and discuss her film, Shanghai Women. The screening will followed by questions and discussion with Ms. Peng. It is a free event to the public and requires no reservations. For more information view the attached file.
Ocean Tales: The Ever-Changing Coast
What happens when a group of soil erosion graduate students meet up with undergraduate students from the Harrington School of Communication and Media? This fascinating short documentary chronicles the unpredictable and authentic learning experience of young scientists and young communicators -- before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc on the South Coast of Rhode Island.
This special learning experience was created through a collaboration supported by the URI Provost's Technology Initiative by students enrolled in Roy Bergstrom's FLM 445 course. They were supported by Dwight Coleman, Director of the Inner Space Center and his colleagues at the Graduate School of Oceanography. This project is part of the Communicating Science research cluster.
Research Assistant Job Opportunity
OBJECTIVE: Explore how scientists can work with undergraduate students
as social media managers to connect with members of the public,
journalists and activists.
How can information about science help connect communities and empower
them? When science students and communication students come together,
new creative possibilities for using social media for information
sharing may emerge. We believe that the public can be engaged by
science when scientists connect their work to people’s lived
experience. We intend to build our capacity to help scientists use
social media to spread important information about science and the
environment. That’s why we’re interested in creating a Social Media
SWAT Team that works with scientists to connect their messages to
specific communities and interest-groups.
The Harrington School of Communication and Media is collaborating with
the Tick Encounter Resource Center at URI to engage undergraduate
students as social media community managers to connect communities
concerned with the spread of lyme disease and other tick-borne
illnesses. Target audiences for this pilot program include mommy
bloggers and pet owners. This project will also help us develop new
experiential learning courses and programs of study that exploit the
expertise of URI’s world-class scientists and help students learn
digital and social media comptencies through community outreach
programs. Tom Mather and Renee Hobbs are the principal investigators
for this project.
Job Opportunity:
We are seeking a Research Assistant to participate to document the
process and outcomes of the pilot project, which begins March 15 and
ends in August, 2013. Duties include: gaining knowledge about social
media in science communication, observing and documenting weekly team
meetings, interviewing team members, tracking progress, and composing
written documents working with a collaborative team. Expected time: 2
– 5 hours weekly through August. Schedule is flexibly coordinated
among the members of the team. Deliverables: Intermediate drafts and
final report. Compensation: $2500 stipend. This project offers an
additional opportunity for an independent study in the Fall 2013 to
work with the principal investigators to produce a manuscript suitable
for scholarly publication.
Qualifications:
Interest in social media and science communication; familiarity with
qualitative research methods; demonstrated experience working in
collaborative teams; research and writing skills; comfort interacting
with people from a range of different backgrounds and life experience;
excellent inquiry learning and listening skills; ability to write
under deadline pressure.
Please supply a letter of interest and resume to Renee Hobbs at
hobbs@uri.edu by March 1.
DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Wednesday, Feb 20, 3 - 7 p.m. Providence CCE Campus, 80 Washington Street
Educators from across Rhode Island and the region share ideas about how teaching and learning can be advanced using a variety of digital media resources and tools. This event is sponsored by the Media Education Lab. Pre-registration is required. See flyer for more details.
LET'S TALK HONEY BOO BOO
Thursday, Fe
b 21, 6 - 7 pm. Weldin Hall lounge
The Harrington School of Communication and Media's Living Learning Community gathers to discuss the popular television reality program, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which attracts more than 2 million viewers weekly, featuring the family of Alana, a 6-year old child pageant contestant featured in Toddlers and Tiaras. See flyer for more details.
Watch the Harrington School Ignite Videos!
There are no actual fires, of course. Just plenty of inspiring ideas from current students, faculty and URI alums. Check out the Ignite videos on our Harrington School YouTube page. Learn more about what we value and where we are headed -- and how our educational programs use the power of information and communication to make a difference in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/user/URIHarringtonSchool
New Film Course for SPRING 2013:
FLM 351: The Business Side of Making a Film
Thursdays 4 - 7:45 pm, Providence Campus, Room 331
How does one finance a film? How do you take advantage of new media? What are the new distribution models? If you want to know the answers to these questions, The Business Side of Making a Film may be the perfect course for you!
The course explores the production and business dimensions of film media, their production technologies and aesthetics, and their potential funding from commercial, private, or non-profit sources. A key goal of this course is to acquire basic understanding of how the processes of thinking, developing and financing of a film all correlate.
Instructor: Reshad Kulenovich http://www.uri.edu/artsci/film/reshad.html
Convergence & Community Event
Wed. January 16, 4 p.m. through Thurs., Jan. 17, 4 p.m., 2013, in the Alumni Center
A 24-hour invitational conference for faculty and other stakeholders of the Harrington School's disciplines. The purpose of the event is to expose and consider the cross-disciplinary wisdom and knowledge of the URI community, seeding our thinking with advice from visiting experts from Providence to Seattle about preparing future workers for the converging "knowledge network" of libraries, newsrooms, studios and agencies. Read more about the event.
View the Online Gallery of Global Photography!
The Gallery of Global Photography is an online exhibit featuring photos taken by students, faculty, and staff in the Harrington School of Communication and Media who traveled around the world. It is the first online gallery the Harrington School has hosted and it is now up and running! View all the amazing photographs by visting https://galleryglobal.wordpress.com
Special Screening of the Films of Ashish Chadha
Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m. in Swan Hall screening room.
The Film/Media Program presents a screening of the films of Assistant Professor Ashish Chadha, a filmmaker and scholar who has been making films in India since the mid-nineties. His films have been shown in various film festivals around the world. His short film Kalighat Fetish won the Best Documentary award in 2001 at the Tampere Film Festival, Finland.
Spring 2013 NEW COURSE: "Writing Science for the Public"
Students are invited to enroll in HPR 326, a special interdisciplinary course that explores how to bring science to the people who need it.
It is offeredTuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-1:45 pm
4 credits. Contact Associate Professor Libby Miles at lmiles@mail.uri.edu with any questions.
Screenwriter of the "Red Dawn" Visits URI
Wednesday, November 28th at 7 p.m. in CBLS Auditorium (Room 100)
Carl Ellsworth, the screenwriter for the new film Red Dawn, talked screenwriting and his experiences working within the studio system. In addition to Red Dawn, Ellsworth has also written the screenplays for Disturbia (2007) and Red Eye (2005).
URI Students received a group rate ticket price if they attend the matinee screening of Red Dawn on Wednesday afternoon at the Showcase Cinema (1200 Quaker Lane) in Warwick. See the Film/Media Facebook page for details.
Vince Petronio Stars in "An Inspector Calls"
The mystery play, "An Inspector Calls," will be performed at the Bristol Statehouse Theater until December 2. For more information about the play visit: http://www.2ndstorytheatre.com/playing.htm
Vince Petronio, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, is a semi-professional actor in Rhode Island who has appeared in several roles to critical acclaim, most notably as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird.
Mod High Low Sub Cultural Basterds: Tarantino's Wars, Sideways
Monday, November 19th. 4:00 pm, 154 Swan Hall
John Leo, Professor of English, explored Tarantino's representational strategies in Inglourious Basterds (2009), which constitute a meditation on the film industry's power to reinvent WW2 as popular culture, complete with entertaining stock characters and franchises. The paratactic unhinging of history, space-time dimensions, fantasy, truth claims and metakitsch, were controversial. "Double occupancies" (Jewish "Apache" war criminals, Nazi Gemutlichkeit) show the instrumentalities of cinematic fabrications. Basterds's fake Goebbels-produced propaganda film within-the-film reveals the power of film as accessory to genocide.
INFORMATION LITERACY 2.0
On Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 4-5pm in Galanti Lounge, a special event featured Jen Thomas, Library Director and Information Literacy Instructor, Bishop Stang High School, who demonstrated LibGuides, Tumblr and VoiceThread. Keeping up with social media and students' personal interests are crucial in cultivating an engaging library classroom. Participants learned how to improve information and digital literacy skills through the use of a variety of web 2.0 tools, apps, and other fun and easy technologies. Participants were encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet device to try out tools along the way. This event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.
Digital Literacy
Founding Director Renee Hobbs offered two free webinars as part of her work as 2012 Fellow for the American Library Association (ALA) Office of Information Technology Policy. Hundreds of librarians from the U.S. and around the world participatd in two Google Hangouts, moderated by Hobbs on November 14 and December 11. More information here.
Harrington Alumna is 'Hobby Hoarding' to Inspire
URI Communication Studies alumna, Libby Segal ('10), is currently working on a year long quest to try one new thing a week in hopes of inspiring others to do the same. She is blogging and video logging her experiences at www.thehobbyhoarder.com. Her work is also now featured on URI Today.
HARRINGTON SCHOLAR RECEIVES TOP PAPER AWARD
On November 17th, Stephen Stifano, Lecturer in the Communication Studies Department of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island is receiving a Top Paper Award from the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) which is a leading scholarly association of communication researchers. His paper, “Rational and Emotional Communication between Filmmakers and Audiences in a Narrative Feature Film: A Developmental-Interactionist Theory of Film Communication” looks to remedy traditional gaps in the media studies literature with respect to the study of film as a two-sided process of mediated communication.Using Screencasts in Class
Monday, November 5, from 3 - 4 p.m. at THE HUB@LLRC in Swan 306
With just a few simple steps, faculty can learn how to create simple videos of anything that can be displayed on a computer monitor. Screencasting is a versatile tool for many different kinds of teaching and learning experiences. This hands-on workshop helped faculty gain skills needed to get started. Laptops will be provided. Instructor: Frank Romanelli, Department of Writing and Rhetoric.
PR Summit: Crisis Communication
Monday, November 5, at 3 p.m. in Alumni Hall
Public Relations students learn about strategies for managing unpredictable, unexpected or "bad" news with presenter Kerrie Bennett, Interim Executive Director, Communications and Community Relations, URI.
NEW RESEARCH IN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Thursday, November 1st 12:30pm-1:45pm
Rm. 152 CBLS, Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences [Map]
Featuring: Norbert Mundorf, Professor of Communication Studies
Kendall Moore, Associate Professor of Journalism and Film/Media
Lauren Mandel, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Assistant Professor of Writing & Rhetoric
Faculty from University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication and Media will present their diverse research in science communication to undergraduates, graduates, and the public in this interactive discussion. Refreshments will be provided.
Contact Caroline Gottschalk Druschke cgd@uri.edu with questions.
Engaged Communication and Action:
Harrington School Students Walk to Support Breast Cancer
After hearing multiple speeches paying tribute to family members who won the battle against breast cancer and reading a student’s report on the experience, a University of Rhode Island faculty member in the Harrington School of Communication and Media decided to rally her 80-plus students to take action.
Crystal Fonseca, a lecturer in the Communication Studies Department, and her students walked in the American Cancer Society’s 2012 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Providence, R.I. Sunday, Ocober 21. The students were joined by parents, friends, teammates and coworkers to lace up their sneakers to honor, pay tribute, and raise money to save lives. To foster a sense of teamwork, pink team shirts bearing the Harrington School’s name were worn. Learn more here.
GiveMe5 Media Teachers Lab
Register now for the first annual GiveMe5 Media Teachers Lab which will be held on Monday, October 22, from 3:30-6:30 pm at the Providence campus of URI. The event is free, but space is limited so registration is required. Our keynote presenter will be national expert Dr. Renee Hobbs, speaking about Copyright and Fair Use: Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Materials for Youth Media and Media Literacy! See the flyer for further information.
3:30-4:00 Check in and informal networking; refreshments
4:00-4:45 Snapshots (5 minute highlights of RI media educator programs)
5:00-6:15 Copyright and Fair Use
Sponsored in partnership with Harrington School of Communication and Media, Media Education Lab, Rhode Island Arts Learning Network, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, RI Film and Television Office, & RI Film Collaborative.
Register at http://goo.gl/EGVsk. Your registration will be confirmed by URI's Media Education Lab with more specific meeting location details.
ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Thursday, October 18th 12:30pm-1:45pm
Rm. 152 CBLS, Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences [Map]
Featuring: Judith Swift, Director of the Coastal Institute and Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre;Robert Schwegler, Professor of Writing & Rhetoric; Patrick Logan, Professor of Communication Studies; Roy Bergstrom, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Film/Media and moderator Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Assistant Professor of Writing & Rhetoric
Faculty from URI's Harrington School of Communication and Media will talk about their diverse experiences teaching science communication to undergraduates, graduates, and the public in this interactive discussion. Please bring your questions and experiences and prepare to engage in a lively discussion. Refreshments will be provided.
Contact Caroline Gottschalk Druschke at cgd@uri.edu with questions.
Teaching with the iPad Workshop
The Hub@LLRC Faculty Development Program will offer short workshops led by faculty and staff who share ideas and information on digital pedagogies and demonstrate the use of specific tools and skills.
Dr. Rebecca Romanow will lead our first workshop, Teaching with the iPad, on Wednesday, October 17th from 2pm - 3pm in Swan 304. All Harrington School faculty, instructors, and graduate students are invited to attend. Please see the flyer for details, and refer any questions to Joannah Portman-Daley (jportmandaley@gmail.com).
Learn More about the Harrington Rangers
The Harrington Rangers are student ambassadors and peer mentors who embody the values of the Harrington School of Communication and Media. They now have presence on the Harrington School website and continue to build their presence on campus.
Gallery of Global Photography Call for Submissions
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to take part in the first online photography exhibit of the Harrington School by electronically submitting international photos to galleryglobalphoto@gmail.com by October 31.
Individuals may submit up to five photos with the following information included: photo title and description, photographer’s name, contact information, affiliation with the Harrington School (student, faculty, staff), and agreement to be interviewed (video, audio, or written). Additional submission information is also available.
Selected photograph submissions will be notified within one month after the submission deadline. The Gallery of Global Photography will debut in December 2012 and will be accessible through the Harrington School website.
Harrington Events Were a Success! 
More than 300 people attended IGNITE: HARRINGTON, the formal launch event of the Harrington School of Communication and Media on September 27, 2012. It was an energizing and inspiring event, with music, student-produced films, and short Ignite talks from current students, faculty, and alumni.
Senator Jack Reed attended the opening of the HUB@LLRC, the new just-in-time digital learning center that represents a collaboration between the Languages Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Instructional Technology Services Department, and the Harrington School of Communication and Media. Students, faculty and staff will be able to check out equipment and get elbow-to-elbow support for digital learning projects.
Launching THE HUB@LLRC
Senator Jack Reed will be participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open THE HUB@LLRC on September 28 at 11 am in Swan Hall room 301. THE HUB@LLRC is a new digital learning lab for Harrington School students and faculty to get support for all creative multimedia projects. Senator Reed will be learning about THE HUB@LLRC and our plans for building the future of the Harrington School of Communication and Media.
IGNITE: HARRINGTON 
Come celebrate the free inaugural event at 6 pm in the URI Memorial Union Ballroom. There will be energetic Ignite talks, multimedia presentations, free food, and more than 20 prize giveaways including a chance to win an iPad!
Watch a cool Ignite: Harrinton video made by one of our Harrington Rangers.
Big Events:
Ignite: Harrington & Launching THE HUB@LLRC
Join us this Thursday, September 27th at 6pm in the URI Memorial Union Ballroom for Ignite: Harrington, the inaugural event of the Harrington School of Communication and Media.
Senator Jack Reed will be participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open THE HUB@LLRC on September 28 at 11 am in Swan Hall room 301. THE HUB@LLRC is a new digital learning lab for Harrington School students and faculty to get support for all creative multimedia projects. Senator Reed will be learning about THE HUB@LLRC and our plans for building the future of the Harrington School of Communication and Media.
Digital Storytelling Brownbag Talk Friday
Learn how to use photos, language, image and sound to tell powerful digital narratives. This event is free and open to everyone.
Presenter: Heather Johnson
Date: Friday, September 21
Time: 1- 2 pm
Location: Multicultural Center 201
Renee Hobbs Featured on NewportRI.com Website
Renee Hobbs, the founding director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media, shares her past experiences in media literacy and her current work with the Harrington School in the Q&A formatted article titled "The Media is the Message." When asked about merging the various departments of the school she says, "The building blocks are already in place and it is simply a matter of bringing it all together." Read the full article to get a better glimpse of the mother, wife, and professor who is taking a new leadership role at the Harrington School of Communication and Media.
Harrington Ranger Featured in Rhode Island Monthly
If you pick up the most recent edition of the Rhode Island Monthy magazine you will find URI student Andrew Pilkington featured in an article titled "Enabled" by Paul Kandarian. The piece is a profile of Andrew, a junior filmmaker with cerebral palsy who uses his nose to write TV scripts and his foot to edit videos. Kandarian wrote, "This is one powerfully determined young man, confident to the point of being charmingly brash, who won't quit once he's onto a project."
How ePortfolios Support International Dialogue in Digital and Media Literacy
Silke Grafe, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
A Brownbag Lunch Presentation and Discussion
DATE: Friday, September 7
TIME: 12 - 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Graduate Program in Library and Information Studies, Rodman Hall Resource Room
How can ePortfolios help support innovative and effective practices of teaching and learning? How might they support learners' digital and media literacy competencies, critical and creative thinking, and international communication and collaboration skills?
ePortfolios provide easy-to-use learning spaces for international collaboration and communication. They enable students from different countries to publish, share and discuss media-rich documents about digital and media literacy. ePortfolios as a part of flexible online courses hold great promise for an interdisciplinary and international collaboration between faculty, students and members of the community.
About the Presenter
Silke Grafe is a Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. She is author and co-author of three books and a member of the German Ministerial Taskforce for Media Literacy Education. Her current interests include: media literacy in an international perspective, media literacy in teacher education, video data for research and professional development, K-12 media literacy education.
Nationally Recognized Science Blogger & Editor to Give Talk on Communicating Science in the Digital Age
Bora Zivkovic will kick off social media workshop for Rhode Island graduate students with public lecture on Monday, July 30 at 9:30am
It's not rocket science, but effective use of social media is essential to communicating scientific research to a broad audience. That's the focus of a workshop hosted by Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting in partnership with Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (RIEPSCoR) and Rhode Island Sea Grant on July 30 at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.
Public Lecture
Bora Zivkovic, Scientific American blogs editor and founder of ScienceOnline, will kick off the workshop with a lecture on how the web is changing the way science is communicated in the rapidly evolving digital age. The lecture will begin at 9:30am on July 30 in the Coastal Institute Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. The lecture is free and open to the public. Faculty, communications staff and undergraduate students from all Rhode Island colleges and universities are encouraged to attend.
The Metcalf Institute was established at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography in 1997 with funding from three media foundations, the Belo Corporation, the Providence Journal Charitable Foundation and the Philip L. Graham Fund, and with additional funding from the Telaka Foundation. It is named for the late Michael P. Metcalf, a visionary in journalism and publisher of The Providence Journal Bulletin from 1979-1987. In addition to providing science training for reporters and editors to help improve the accuracy and clarity of environmental reporting, Metcalf Institute administers the Grantham Prize, the world's largest cash prize for journalism awarded for excellence in environmental reporting.
Everyone Loves a Good Book in the Summer
Find out what the Harrington School faculty are reading by viewing the faculty reading list.
Camp Harrington: A Summer for Curriculum Renewal
This summer, nearly 50 members of the Harrington School community gathered on the Bay Campus for CAMP HARRINGTON, a unique faculty development and curriculum renewal program.
2012 Joyal Film Prize Winners Announced
Congratulations to all the winners! The students each received a $1,000 prize for their work. The annual prizes are made possible through a donation by Fred Joyal '79.
Smoke by Michael Higginbotham
This is a Love Story by Matt DiGennaro
Live it Up by Kyle King
Honorable Mention: Chef's Dream by Alex Allaux
Congratulations also to Film/Media major Timothy Mendonca, who was awarded The Randall/Brand Games Original Film Treatment Prize for Rough Point. Tim received a prize of $500. The film treatment prize is donated by Scott Randall '76 and Brand Games.
May, 2012 Newsletter
Learn about what's new at the Harrington School of Communication and Media
Got a Million Page Views? Get an A!
At the Harrington School of
Communication and Media, students are learning about the use of social media
through creating viral video campaigns. Students in Professor Steve Stifano's 
Communication Studies course were challenged to create a
viral video in a span of 25 days. If their video reaches 1,000,000 views
on YouTube, every member of the class scores an A+ on the assignment. With high stakes comes high excitement. Students chose to
use their viral attempt to support social causes, rather than filming cats, pratfalls,
or double rainbows. For example:
On April 27th, make your life pink to remind people that Breast Cancer isn't a one-month-a-year issue.
This anti-bullying PSA has gotten local attention from Hot 106.3 Radio, WPRI's "The Rhode Show," and a spot on GoLocalProv.com. The video has also gotten a retweet from an editor at Billboard Magazine.
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