AMLA Participates in Madrid UN Conference
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 AMLA President Lynda Bergsma is traveling to Madrid this month to join international media literacy education leaders in a presentation at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum. Session participants will explore how partnerships and strategies can be developed toward the implementation of media education and media literacy, both locally and globally.
Joining Lynda at the conference are AMLA members Jordi Torrent, Renee Hobbs, and Kathleen Tyner, as well as 2007 NMEC keynote speaker Robin Blake.
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GMLP to Host Danish Educators
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Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc. (GMLP) has been busily preparing for a special visit from Danish journalists and educators who are coming to St. Louis, via the State Department, expressly to meet with GMLP to learn about the organization's media literacy education efforts.
This will be the last leg of the group's ten-day trip to the U.S. to investigate the U.S. experience in countering stereotyping by ethnicity, race and religion in the news media. One of the guests heads an association of minority journalists implementing a foundation-funded media literacy project directed to secondary school teachers and students.
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| Members On the Move & Making News
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The Media Education Lab @ Temple University (led by AMLA board member Sherri Hope Culver and AMLA members Renee Hobbs, Kelly Mendoza and Mike Robb Greico) recently conducted a full day media literacy workshop for Communication Arts teachers from the Philadelphia School District. The workshop utilized the hip hop documentary Beyond Beats & Rhymes as a method for bringing popular music into the classroom and into media literacy discussions. Learn more about the workshop here.
Attending the National Family Literacy Conference in Louisville?
Join AMLA Past President Faith Rogow, who will be speaking about "Family Literacy in the Digital Age" at the conference luncheon on March 31. Learn more about the conference at famlit.org/conference.
Gateway Media Literacy Partners has been incorporated as a nonprofit Missouri corporation -Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc. AMLA board member, Jessica Z. Brown, GMLP's founder, has been elected president; AMLA members, Webster University's Professor Art Silverblatt and graduate student, Amy Kosberg, are vice president and secretery, respectively
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Opportunities
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Position opening for a Conference Coordinator who will be in charge of overseeing all aspects of the upcoming "Media: Overseas Conversations (V)" (New York, June 5-7, 2008), an international conference on youth, media and education.
The position is part-time (5-6 days a month) from late February through early May 2008, and full time from May 7 to June 11. A hands-on approach to work and previous experience organizing events and conferences are a must. Candidates will need good coordination skills and excellent writing skills, in addition to good working knowledge of Photoshop and Dreamweaver software as well as general computer skills (excel, word, etc.). Basic knowledge of Spanish is a plus.
Interested candidates should email to Jordi Torrent (jordi@mocnyb.org) and include a resume and two reference names (with email and phone number). For information on past conferences, please visit www.mocnyb.org.
HOME, Inc., an AMLA organizational member, has an opening for a full-time VISTA community service project assistant to work in its high school media lab project. The position includes a $10,000 living stipend and a $5,000 education scholarship at the end of the assignment. For more information about the position, contact alanmichel@hominc.org.
Project Look Sharp is offering the following staff development workshops:
- Introduction to media literacy integration for all grade levels and curriculum areas,
- Youth culture and new technologies,
- trainings on each of our social studies curriculum kits, including:
- Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns,
- Media Construction of War,
- Media Construction of the Middle East,
- Soviet History through Posters
For more information about the workshops at Project Look Sharp's website.
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| Mark Your Calendar for NMEC 2009
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The National Media Education Conference will be held in Detroit,
Michigan, August 1 - 4, 2009. The Westin Book Cadillac Hotel has been
selected as the host hotel. You can check out pictures of the hotel and
read about its rich history here.
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Help Us Spread the Word
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If you know of any upcoming media literacy education conferences and events taking place in 2008, please send us an announcement so that we can include it in the AMLA's new website calendar of events. Send you information to Jane Ballinger at amla@amlainfo.org.
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| AMLA Offers Support For Local MLE Events
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If you are planning a media literacy event in your area, the AMLA wants to help. We are available to partner with members and local groups to plan off-conference-year media literacy events.
If you anticipate holding a media literacy event in the coming year and would like to link up with AMLA, simply contact AMLA 1st VP Joe Behson. Joe will be glad to work with you to ensure the success of your event and to discuss ways in which the AMLA can support or even co-sponsor the event.
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New MLE Resources
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The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)
is offering a new "toolkit" for media literacy, which provides links to
numerous media literacy education resources, including the AMLA's Core Principles of Media Literacy Education. Access the toolkit here.
New Resource from Public TV Station WGBH
Looking for video clips to illustrate lessons or to analyze? You can find them at openvault.wgbh.org.
Open Vault features more than 500 clips and interviews from WGBH
programming created between 1968 and 1993, including Muhammad Ali
discussing his refusal to fight in Vietnam, African American students
arriving at school during Boston's court-ordered desegregation, and
Robert McNamara reading from a letter sent by Nikita Khrushchev to
President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It also includes
more than 1,000 interview transcripts. In addition, online tools allow
educators to annotate and tag records, create topical lists, and send
information to students for further study or classroom discussion.
AMLA Organizational Member Common Sense Media
is offering tips to help parents get their children interested in the
electoral process. Check out their tips on the Common Sense Media website.
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