| Hall Davidson has been involved
in educational media since 1980. He taught language arts,
foreign language, and mathematics before leaving his
bilingual classroom to teach mathematics on television in
Los Angeles on an Emmy-winning after-school program. He has
also taught a class for technology proficiency for teacher
candidates at a college in southern California. Hall has
published classroom lessons for K-12 integration of video in
Techworks, which is sold internationally. For a dozen years,
he coordinated and hosted the California Student Media and
Multimedia Awards, the oldest continuous media festival for
students in the nation, with more than 5,000 student
participants.
As a producer, he has been nominated twice for an Emmy.
The programs he has produced include series on music, the
Internet, Information Literacy, copyright, and a health and
safety series for kids 0-5. He was a founder of
kitzu.org, a scaffolded
approach to video creation in the classroom.
While working in the Los Angeles Unified School District,
he was a founder of the Video In the Classroom (VIC) awards.
He has worked successfully with educators in across the
country to start their own media awards programs for
students. He served as the first president of Video Using
Educators (VUE) and currently oversees the Schoolhouse Video
project that has given student and teacher produced media
access to broadcast television via PBS. |
 Hall Davidson
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| After working at PBS stations for
more than 20 years, he left traditional media to become
Director of the Discovery Educator Network, part of the
Discovery Channel's new initiative in the non-linear media
arena. He was elected to the board of
Computer-Using Educators (CUE).
He served for ten years as Director of Education at PBS
station KOCE-TV in southern California, overseeing a media
consortium of 200,000 students and teachers before leaving
to become one of the two directors of the Discovery Educator
Network, Discovery Communication's major initiative to serve
K-12. The DEN hosts an online community and works with
educators in media, including unitedstreaming and the
Discovery Health Connection.
Hall is married and the father of two children, who both
went though Los Angeles Unified School District. SESSIONS:
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