Speaker's Roster

Chris Worsnop

Address: Mississauga, Ontario

Telephone: (905) 823-0875

Fax: (905) 823-0875

Email: worsnop@pathcom.com

Profession: workshop leader; speaker; consultant; writer

Organization: Wright Communications

Title: Owner

Affiliations: Independent

Speaking topics: Media Literacy grades 4-college level

Miscellaneous Topics: Authentic Assessment in Media Education; Getting Started as a Media Teacher; teaching personal/critical response

Past speaking engagements:

• Potential for Greatness Literacy Conference, Victoria, BC, Feb, 2001
• Summit 2000 Youth Conference, Toronto ON, May 2000
• Images of Youth 2000 Conference, Seattle WA, March 2000
• Center for Media Literacy, Los Angeles CA, March 2000
• Cape Cod Summer Institute in Media Education, July, 1999
• NMEC St. Paul MN, June 1999 (Colorado Springs, 1988, Los Angeles, 1997)
• Fakenham College England, May, 1999
• UNESCO Conference on Media Education, Vienna, Austria, April 1999
• Association for Media Literacy workshops in S. Ontario for elementary teachers new to Media
• Education, February - April, 1999
• Teleschool Teacher Training Seminar, Honolulu, Hawai'i, January, 1999
• Where R We @ ? Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, January 1999
• Washington State University Teacher Training Seminar, Seattle, WA, January 1999
• II meeting of the World Council of Media Education/International Conference on Communications Education, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May, 1998

Selection of titles of past speeches:

1. Critical Thinking in Media Education
2. Authentic Assessment in Media Education
3. Teaching Media is Not Hard To Do
4. Screening Images: Ideas for Media Education
5. Media Literacy and the Common Good

Resources produced (selected list):

1. Media Literacy Through Critical Thinking, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - Commission of Student Learning, 2000.
2. Y2K and the Media (a Web page), Media Awareness Network, 1999.
3. Media Connections in Ontario, (Analysis of Ontario's revised media curriculum expectations). Wright Communications, 1999.
4. Screening Images: Ideas for Media Education, Second Edition, Wright Communications, 1999.
5. The TV Book: Talking back to your TV, 1988. (Contributed final chapter of educational activities). Annick Press, 1998.
6. Assessing Media Work: Authentic Assessment in Media Education, Wright Communications, 1996
7. Popular Culture, an anthology of readings from and about popular culture, McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1994

Willing to speak: anywhere in Canada; internationally

Available for: workshop facilitation; speaking engagements; media interviews

Fee: negotiable

Languages: English (passable French)

Biography:

Chris Worsnop received his B.A. and M.A. from Queens' College at Cambridge University (UK). He furthered his education by receiving a diploma of university studies in social communications from the University of Ottawa in 1973, and his master of education at Queen's University in Kingston in 1981. Worsnop spent nine years teaching high school English, Media Studies and Drama from 1961-70, and has spent 25 years as a high school curriculum coordinator. He is an occasional teacher of film studies at community colleges, as well as an active reviewer and columnist. He has been a speaker and workshop leader at numerous conferences and conventions. Worsnop has been an active member of the Ontario Film Association since 1970, and an executive member of the Association for Media Literacy (Ontario) since 1995.  His most recent appointment (1999) has been as chair of a writing team preparing a new International Baccalaureate course in Film and Media.