Conférenciers

BAL, Alex
BARDINI, Thierry
CHATONSKY, Grégory
CONESA, Jean-Claude
COTE, Mario
CZEGLEDY, Nina
DANIELS, Steve
DUBOIS, Jean
ELDER, R. Bruce
EPOQUE, Martine
FISCHER, Hervé
FLEISCHER, Alain
GARDNER, Paula
JOOSSE, Angela
LaBELLE, Guillaume
LANGILL, Caroline
MATHIEU, Marie-Christine
NOLAN, Jason
OUELLET, Pierre
PALMIERI, Christine
PAPON, Frédéric
POISSANT, Louise
POULIN, Denis
PRUSKA-OLDENHOF, Izabella
RODIONOFF, Anolga
SLOPEK, Edward
SNYDER, Don
TREMBLAY, Pierre
VAN ALSTYNE, Greg

Jason Nolan
Ryerson University, Assistant Professor, School of Early Childhood Education

- extrait de conférence

Jason Nolan (Ph.D.) is an assistant professor of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University where he teaches courses in children and technology and science education in the early years. He has spent 20 years teaching and learning with technology with a particular interest in learning in non-formal environments. He is founding co- editor of the journal Learning Inquiry (Springer), and the book series Transdisciplinary Studies (Sense Publishing). In 2005 he co-edited "Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual Communities." which was published as a special issue of the ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, and in 2006 co-edited The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments (Springer). Research interests children and technology, children's conceptualisation of space, learning in the margins, virtual learning environments from MOOs to Second Life, blogs, wikis and all the little bits inbetween.

SONGCHILD.ORG: CULTURAL PLAY IN OPEN ACCESS CHILDREN’S MUSIC
Songchild is a wiki-based collaboration between a scholar and a professional musician (Danny Bakan) that seeks to re-infuse the folk element back into children's music, finding the creative, artistic, authentic voices of the child, parent and teacher to expand the cultural narrative, and using web 2.0 infrastructure to enhance community and connectivity between multi-lingual, -age, -cultural communities.

Web 2.0 technologies such as Youtube, Google Earth, Facebook and Myspace all represent a resurgence of folk culture, "The everyday and intimate creativity that all of us share and pass on to the next..." (http://www.loc.gov/folklife/whatisfolklife.html). In this movement we experience the blurring of the boundaries of producer and consumer, questioning the ownership of content and the commodification of cultural experience; access is mediated by corporations but content is user driven.