About+Your+Facilitator

=About Your Facilitator=

As a consultant and facilitator with The William and Ida Friday Institute, I am very excited to share media tools with educators and strive towards a technology driven education system.

I have joined the Friday Institute Team after my years of experience as an award winning media designer and serving years in education: as a middle school English teacher with the nation’s Teach For America program in one of the lowest performing school districts in the state, and teaching at Warren New Tech High School in Warrenton, North Carolina, where I taught Digital Media classes and helped start the school in its first years of operation. My experience in a 1:1 technology driven classroom, teaching on a Project Based Learning platform as a 21 Century Certified Educator, gives me an understanding of the educational and social impact of technology and media on today’s youth and their eagerness to explore, learn, and create with it.

When I am not working with the Friday Institute, I am a project manager and Director of Community Content with an educational nonprofit called KidThrive.org. and OneSeventeen Media. We create social media tools for teens and tweens to help them create, but also to cope with the difficulties growing up. Please check out some of the project OneSeventeen Media and KidThrive.org have been working on below, and feel free to participate! All of these tools are meant for teen and are leveraged for the classroom!


 * Young Minds Digital Times 2010 - 2011 Media Competition** - free film competition for students grades 6-12: perfect for the ELA classroom.
 * The Alien Lounge Wiki** - teen generated discussion forum on topics that are important to teens.
 * OneSeventeen Media Blog**

And if I sound a bit hoarse during our workshop, please forgive me. On the weekends I am a performer at the Carolina Renaissance Festival and Artisan Marketplace just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina: performing is something I love and what more unique place can you perform than a renaissance faire? Yes, you have found me out, I am a major geek, but if you have never been, you should come! It is every weekend until November 22nd.

Contact Information
Jaclyn Bell jbellmedia@gmail.com