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www.namle.net/marketplace
Start a Wish List Today A neat feature of NAMLE's online Marketplace is the ability to create a "wish list" to identify resources you want to order in the future. It's especially helpful if you need to create a purchase order, verify grant funding or get purchase authorization before you can complete an order. Come back up to six months later and your selections will still be there! Starting a wish list is easy. And once you've got it set up, it will always be there. You can also print it out. Now's the time to start your wish list for classes and courses this fall. Check out some of these: Marvelous new series for Primary level Elementary teachers will find the new "Fact Finders" Media Literacy series from Capstone Press a unique resource for helping primary students learn to question all forms of media and popular culture. (Grades 3-4 reading level)   Eight titles are available - on movies, television, video games, online, music, print and new for fall: the news and "my space." Put the whole series in every primary classroom! Try Searching by StandardsTo find resources for your wish list, try another cool feature of the site -- selecting resources by words or phrases related to standards you have to teach. On the Marketplace Search & Shop page, pull down the menu of "standards key phrases." Select one, click "submit" and see what appears to help you integrate media literacy into standards covering that topic. It's Political Advertising time Looking for political advertising spots - both historical and contemporary? Make it easy on yourself with The Living Room Campaign, a video collection of dozens of political commercials from Eisenhower to Bush. Included is the famous "Daisy" spot from the Johnson - Goldwater campaign in 1964. Order it with The Spot: The Rise of Political Advertising on Television and you'll have everything you need for research -- or teaching - during the coming election season.
Tip: Pull down the "choose by Standards Key Phrases" menu and select "political advertising" voila! - both resources will come up plus many others. VISIT THE MARKETPLACE AT www.namle.net/marketplace
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NAMLE President Invites Candidates
Don't just sit back and ponder the best ways to advance media literacy education. Join a NAMLE Committee! New NAMLE President, Sherri Hope Culver, invites members to help advance the mission of media literacy education by joining a committee of the Board. Board Committees tackle specific projects and initiatives for the industry and the organization. Committees seeking interested candidates are listed below. Please contact the committee chair directly.
Communications Committee
Jane Ballinger jrballinger@mac.com
(manages website and external information)
Marketing Committee
Jessica Z. Brown curtjes@swbell.net
(manages marketing strategy, press relations, etc.)
Development Committee Cindy Pulley cpulley@maryville.edu
(manages fundraising from foundations, corporate giving, and government)
Program Committee
Amy Jensen amy_p_jensen@byu.edu
(manages programmatic development)
Conference Committee Sharon Sellers-Clark sescamla@sbcglobal.net
(manages the NAMLE conference upcoming Aug. 2009)
Membership Committee Jane Owens jowens@mlpbs.org
(manages membership recruitment, renewal and service)
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We're NAMLE Now!
We're celebrating the changeover to our organization's new name, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE - pronounced NAME-LEE). Our newsletter is now called the NAMLE Update. We are still making changes to our email addresses, so you will be receiving this newsletter from our old address at AMLA. But soon our correspondence with you will come from NAMLE. So please set your email spam filters to accept email from NAMLE.net.
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Austin Named Dean of WSU Murrow College
Longtime NAMLE member Erica Austin has been named as the first dean of the new Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Erica has been teaching at Washington State since 2000. An active member in the media literacy education field, she was a keynote speaker at the 1998 National Media Conference in Colorado Springs. Congratulations Erica! Read more at www.dailyevergreen.com/story/25796
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Thanks, John
Our new logo was designed by NAMLE member John Engerman of Bicameral Design. John has been a great friend to the organization and has designed many of our graphics over the years, including stationery and conference logos. Check out John's portfolio at www.bicameral.biz.
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Members on the Move & Making News
NAMLE founding member Frank Baker has published a new book, "Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide." Congratulations, Frank. The book will be available at the end of the year. NAMLE Board Member Paul Mihailidis was a member of the faculty at the 2nd Annual Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change. The three-week global education initiative exploring media's role in global citizenship and civil society is conceived to answer two of the most pressing questions of our time: "How do news media affect our understanding of ourselves, our cultures, our politics?" and "How can we use media to better cover global problems and to better report on possible solutions?" 60 students and 15 faculty from 5 continents have gathered in Salzburg to live and learn together, creating a series of curricular products around global media literacy. Learn about the exciting work being done at the Academy at www.salzburg.umd.edu/ and start making plans to apply to participate next year. You can also contact Paul at pmihaildis@jmail.umd.edu with any questions. Read about NAMLE member Jody Lynn McBrian's project with refugee children: "From There to Here: A Photography Based Research Project and Exhibit." McBrian is an assistant professor at the University of South Florida. An article in the August/September issue of edutopia magazine includes commentary from NAMLE members Kara Clayton, Frank Baker, Tessa Jolls, and Frank Gallagher. Read the article, which describes media literacy education as a growing trend, online at edutopia.org. |
Calls for Papers & Articles
The First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia has announced a call for papers for the December 2008 event. The conference, which will be held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, will bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to focus on the implications of global flows of popular culture for educational practices and youth development. The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2008. For more details, visit the conference site. Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students to be held April 3-5, 2009, at The Ohio State University. Review of conference proposals will begin September 1; proposals will not be accepted after October 15. Learn more at the conference site. The Media Interventions Division of the Cultural Studies Association(CSA) invites papers and panel proposals for the Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Meetings, April 16-18, 2009, Kansas City, MO, USA. The division welcomes submissions that examine media interventions, broadly conceived, from academic and practitioner perspectives. The deadline for submissions is September 7. Additional information is available online. Media and Healthy Development in Adolescence, a conference being held May 3-6, 2009 in Hong Kong, China is seeking paper proposals. Deadline for abstract submission is November 20. The conference is supported by the Hong Kong Baptist University. For more information contact mhd@hkbu.edu.hk |
Mark Your Calendars
It's not too soon to begin making plans for the NAMLE Conference, which will be held in Detroit, MI August 1 - 4, 2009. Visit the NAMLE website to see the new video produced by Thurston High School video campers under the tutelage of NAMLE member Kara Clayton. Public Radio station WOSU in Columbus Ohio is presenting a Media Literacy Institute on September 17. The event will feature NAMLE member Frank Baker as the keynote speaker. Sessions will include podcasting, using news in the classroom, and the influence of the media on the political process. The "Using the News" sessions will be led by another NAMLE member, Deb Parker. Register online at wosu.org/medialiteracy Gateway Media Literacy Partners of St. Louis is presenting "Media Literacy Week - A Survival Skill" from October 12-19. The deadline for paper submissions is Sept. 15. Read more online at the GMLP website.
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New MLE Resources
September 2008's issue of Cable In The Classroom (available for download at www.ciconline.com contains a two-page spread that Social Studies teachers will be interested in: "Lights! Camera Debate: How to Watch The Presidential Debates from a Media Literacy Perspective." The article was co-authored by NAMLE members Frank Baker and Karen Zill. The online version also contains a downloadable "Debate Watcher Analysis Worksheet" for students.
Another reminder that media literacy education is a global movement: You can download articles in English that discuss the state of media literacy in Russia at edu.of.ru/mediaeducation
The United Nations campaign for understanding between faiths and cultures, known as the Alliance of Civilizations, has launched a website designed to foster dialogue and debate on media literacy. The online tool, called the Media Literacy Education Clearinghouse, collects information from around the world on media literacy education, media education policy and youth-produced media, and is available in Arabic, English and Spanish. Access it online at aocmedialiteracy.org/The project is being headed up by NAMLE member, Jordi Torrent.
NAMLE member Nick Pernisco has created a clever video about media literacy featuring his kittens Sushi and Sashimi. The video is aimed at kids (and grownups too), and is about the importance of teaching kids media literacy rather than prohibiting certain types of media outright. You can view the video on TeacherTube.
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