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A Dozen Ways to Search!
Have you been to NAMLE's new online Marketplace yet? For those who have been in the field awhile, you will remember the popular media literacy catalog service provided by the Center for Media Literacy from 1990 to 2006. When CML closed the catalog service, its inventory was given to NAMLE to start the Marketplace. NAMLE's Marketplace website is a wonderland of search possibilities. Go to the " Search & Shop" page and poke around. Put in some keywords and see what comes up: · See how many resources we have for integrating media literacy to various curriculum areas. · Pull down the " Topics" search menu and see what's recommended for a topic you choose. · Choose a standards key phrase and see what books or videos can help you meet that standard. Be sure to notice that when a search result is displayed you can click on any title and up will come a one-page description of that product only - everything you need to make a purchasing decision. If you'd like to add your 2¢ - pro or con - send your comments to the e-mail link provided, and we'll post it for others to read. Teaching New Media Skills
NAMLE is very pleased to announce a Marketplace distribution arrangement with Corwin Press, the educational division of Sage Publications. More than just "how to" books, Corwin's titles are rigorously edited, connect to standards, and have been reviewed (and improved) by an advisory group of teachers. While not specifically written for media literacy, they explain and provide excellent classroom examples of the inquiry method that is so central to teaching 21st century skills and NAMLE's Core Principles of Media Literacy Education. Add at least one of the following to your professional library today! Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Webtools for the Classroom, Second Edition. Educational blogger Will Richardson provides both instruction and motivation. Visual Impact; Visual teaching: Using Images to Strengthen Learning. Highly recommended for every media literacy teacher! Making the Most of the Web in your Classroom - The sections on assessment and evaluation are alone worth the price of the book. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom - A superb handbook by Jason Ohler Teaching in the Digital Age - Excellent resource on inquiry based teaching. Order one or all from the Marketplace today!
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 Teaching the 2008 Election
Want to incorporate the election into your classroom using media literacy techniques? Consider these media literacy materials related to the election that NAMLE members have put together: Temple University's Media Education Lab has created ACCESS, ANALYZE, ACT: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement for PBS Teachers. You can find it at the Media Education Lab's website. Ithaca College's Project Look Sharp website offers free materials from their excellent resource, Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns: A Document-Based History Kit, 2nd Edition. Find it at www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/mcpcweb/Cable In The Classroom's September 2008 issue contains an article co-authored by NAMLE members Frank Baker and Karen Zill: Lights! Camera Debate: How to Watch The Presidential Debates from a Media Literacy Perspective. The magazine also offers a number of other election classroom resources at http://www.ciconline.orgFrank Baker has a great collection of materials and links on his Media Literacy Clearinghouse website. Check out The Role of Media in Elections: Helping Students Understand Media's Influence at www.frankwbaker.com/media_politics.htmCheck out a classic "Vote for Ike" commercial at NAMLE member Peter Gutierrez's Find it in Film website. It could be a valuable addition to class discussions about political advertising. Are we missing election materials from any other NAMLE members? Email us at namle@namle.net |
Rebooting the News
Temple University's Media Education Laboratory, founded by NAMLE member Renee Hobbs, will host Rebooting the News: Reconsidering An Agenda for 21st Century Civic Education on Oct. 23-25, 2008. The event is a short, strategic convening for journalists, teachers, educational administrators and public-policy researchers. It is being presented in partnership with the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the National Constitution Center, and other co-convenors. Find more information and register online. |
Digital Media and Learning Competition
The 2008 HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open. Awards will be made in two categories: Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards and Young Innovators awards. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2008.
The focus of this year's competition is participatory learning, which
is broadly defined as using new digital media for sharing
ideas or planning, designing, implementing, or just discussing ideas and goals together.
This year the competition features a new Young Innovators Award geared towards those aged 18-25, which is designed to help young innovators take their big idea from the garage to implementation! Read more about the competition at www.dmlcompetition.net.
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Members on the Move & Making News
NAMLE member Peter Gutierrez has a busy fall ahead of him. He'll be attending the New York City School Libraries Fall Conference on Nov. 4, the Miami Book Fair International on Nov. 13, and the NCTE Annual Convention on Nov. 22. He'll be joined at the NTCE by other NAMLE members, including Elizabeth Thoman and Frank Baker. What have you been doing? NAMLE members, send us news of your activities, and we'll include it in the UPDATE. Email us at update@namle.net |
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 communicationschair@namle.net(manages website, UPDATE newsletter and external information) Marketing CommitteeJessica Z. Brown Marketingchair@namle.net(manages marketing strategy, press relations, etc.) Development Committee Cindy Pulley developmentchair@namle.net (manages fundraising from foundations, corporate giving, and government) Program Committee Amy Jensen propubchair@namle.net(manages programmatic development) Conference Committee Sharon Sellers-Clark NMECchair@namle.net(manages the NAMLE conference upcoming Aug. 2009) Membership Committee Jane Owens membershipchair@namle.net(manages membership recruitment, renewal and service)
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Calls for Papers & Articles
The Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 2009. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 October 2008. For more info go to www.Technology-Conference.com
The 7th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2009 will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 10th - 13th, 2009. The deadlines for submission of paper/abstracts is Oct. 14th, 2008 . Learn more about the conference online.
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. 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. On Thursday, October 2, from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm, the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media will present a live webcast of a special issues briefing on the topic, Youth-created Media: A Force for Experiential Education and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age. The link to the webcast will be posted on the homepage of the Fred Rogers Center website ( www.fredrogerscenter.org) on October 2.
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New MLE Resources
NAMLE Organizational member Common Sense Media offers reviews of movies, electronic games and TV shows aimed at kids. They even offer kids' own reviews. Check them out at commonsensemedia.org.
Salzburg Academy Launches New Site
The new Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change website has launched at www.salzburg.umd.edu.
The site currently features approximately 20 lesson plans, with plans
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