Teaching and Facilitation

Atwater Library : Digital Literacy Project

URL: media.atwaterlibrary.ca

2006 - Present | Co-facilitator youth media workshops
As coordinator of the DLP, a grass-roots youth media production project, I am on hand at every workshop to assist and support the head facilitator in teaching, motivating and supporting participants in the program.

StudioXX : Feminist art centre for technological exploration, creation, and critique

URL: www.studioxx.org

2004 - Present | Drupal: dynamic website conception
Why make a static website when you can make a dynamic one using Open Source software!? In this workshop participants learn to install, customize and style an easy to update and maintain website using Drupal, a well-known Open Source software.

2003 - 2004 | HTML and Dreamweaver, building blocks of Web design
This was a six -week public course offered to members of studio XX and other community groups. An average of two workshops were held per semester.

Concordia Institute in Management and Development Summer Program

2006 | Facilitator and Moderator for Round-Table: Technology, Media and Activism
Participants : Paul Shore, Montreal filmmaker and social entrepreneur | Nicole Nepton, founder Cybersolidaires | Hugh McGuire, founder of Librevox | Sharon Hackett., CDÉACF

Technology is having a significant impact on how communities form and how social change work is practiced. New tools, new connections, but also new struggles arise in our communities as we negotiate the use and usefulness of technology for social change. This session is an open forum where diverse members of the tech-activist community, and those who want to learn more, will meet and share our experiences, stories and strategies in the domain of technology, community and social change

2005 | Open Source: the five W’s for community organizations
Co-trainer with Norbert Bedoucha

What is the Open Source computer revolution and how can it help you manage your office or achieve your organizations mission? This bilingual workshop will teach effective computer skills for time-starved community organizers and discuss ways they can implement cost-effective and ethical technology solutions in their workplaces> this workshop will also introduce the many tech resources available to non-profits in the Montreal area.

2004 | Building Resources in New Media
Co-trainer with Carrie Haber

This was a one day specialized workshop on using the web effectively for Non-Profits presented at the Concordia Institute in Management and Development Summer Program.

University of the Streets 2008

2008 | Youth and media conversation series
Coordinated and moderated a 3 part series on youth and media. Participants: Steven Mansour, Paul Shore, Isabella Salas.

Blogher 2006

2006 | Design/Style/Customization Workshop
Co-trainer with Tiffany Brown

In this conference session with approximately 100 attendees, Tiffany Brown and I led a discussion on the pros and cons of hiring or DIY-ing for your web design needs. We also led a short tutorial on basic CSS for template modification.