Bring your own innovative middle school and high school web classroom strategies, or just come to learn!

Thursday, March 4, 2010 6 - 7:30 PM
The Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave, Boston, MA02210

Special Guest
Kara Oehler, Mapping Mainstreet

The event is free, but RSVPs are required.
Please RSVP to:
rymaec@icaboston.org
or call Joe Douillette at 617.478.3133

Part 1 - Web 2.0pEN Mic for Educators - 6 - 7 PM
Show off your favorite uses of web technology for the classroom ­ blogging, wikis, twittering, etc. ­and take new ideas home. Just bring your URLs. We'll present your work on the screen and hand you the mic!

Part 2 - Special Guest Kara Oehler, Mapping Main Street - 7 - 7:30 PM
Kara is a radio producer, transmission artist and interactive documentarian, whose work has been featured on NPR and the BBC, and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.

Mapping Main Street, which Kara co-created, is a multi-platform collaborative documentary media project. It creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos... The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. (mappingmainstreet.org)

Mapping Main Street is made possible by MQ2, an initiative of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Part 3 - Socialize, Network, Explore - 7:30 - 9 PM
Enjoy some refreshments in the theater and check out the galleries.

Target Free Thursday Nights are sponsored by Target.
ICA Free Admission for Youth is generously sponsored by the State Street Foundation.

RYMAEC is part of the John Hancock Teen Education Program, which is made possible by significant support from John Hancock Financial Services.
Additional Support for RYMAEC is provided by the Cabot Family Charitable Trust, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Fireman Foundation, the Rowland Foundation, the William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust, the Surdna Foundation, and the Verizon Foundation.

Images courtesy of Mapping Main Street.