NAMLE PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
APRIL 2009
How has your work or personal life been transformed by the use of "media 2.0" tools? Are you on Facebook? LinkedIn? Starting a Ning site? Posting videos to You Tube? Well, if you are - please say "hi"- because you'll find me there too!
Visiting our NAMLE website is certainly a great way to access key media literacy information and resources, but we want to help you connect to those resources that reach beyond the walls of our website as well.
As part of the plans for our national conference this August, we're working on a Ning social networking site that will help you find your colleagues and share the tools and contacts that can strengthen the field of media literacy . . . and your career! (see this month's Update article "Make our Ning Sing") You'll be hearing more on these new ideas in the coming months. And if you've got a suggestion - please share it with me.
And speaking of the conference - be sure to register in time to receive a discounted registration rate. Check out VisitDetroit.com for terrific information about restaurants, shopping, and the waterfront. Bring a colleague and make it a summer road trip. In just four days you'll gather enough inspiration and ideas to last you the rest of the year.
I look forward to seeing you in Detroit this summer.
Sherri Hope Culver
namle@namle.net
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Advertise or present your exhibit at the NAMLE Conference 2009. Contact Deb Parker at info@slem3.com740.548.3613
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We Need You!
Don't just sit back and ponder the best ways to advance media literacy education. Join a NAMLE Committee! 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 NAMLE and the field of media literacy education. Committees seeking interested volunteers are listed below. Please contact the committee chair directly. Communications Committee Karen Zill 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)
Finance Committee
Liz Thoman
ethoman@namle.net
(budgeting, reporting, strategizing all things fiscal)
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 Today is the Last Day for
Early Early Bird Registration
Register by midnight April 24 & pay only $199!
NAMLE is committed to making our biennial conference affordable for all. So we've arranged for an Early Early Bird registration fee of only $199 - available until midnight April 24. Full time graduate or undergraduate students can register for only $119. But these rates will be available to members only, so make sure your membership is current. You can save over $100 off the non-member rate of $300.*
The NAMLE National Conference is the premier opportunity for training and professional development in the field of media literacy education.
The rich mix of conversations,
presentations and hands-on workshops, plus time for networking and
reflection, offers teachers, administrators, media librarians, health
educators, and religious and youth leaders a unique opportunity to
learn from one another and from leaders in the field.
Individuals, groups and organizations
currently teaching or planning to develop programs in media literacy
education will find at the 2009 NAMLE National Conference the commitment, the support and the vision to help them prepare students with the skills to live all of their lives in a global media culture.
Visit our website for the latest news about the 2009 NAMLE National Conference - four days of non-stop media literacy, including keynotes, workshops, roundtables, presentations and screenings. *The Early Bird Rate rate of $240 for members will be available from April 25 - July 10.Not a member or has your membership lapsed? Join (or rejoin) when you register and you'll qualify for the discounted rate. Renew or join for two years and be current until the next conference in 2011. |
Find the Conference on Facebook
 Visit the NAMLE conference on Facebook and receive immediate notification of breaking conference news. Search "National Association for Media Literacy Education conference" to find us. Once you do, invite a friend.
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MAKE OUR NING SING:
Got the "Ning" skills to kickstart a NAMLE Ning? Or maybe you're awesome on Facebook and ready to broaden your knowledge? NAMLE is looking for a volunteer to help manage its (soon-to-be-live) Ning site. Interested? Contact Sherri at namle@namle.net.
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IFC Sets 2nd Season For Media Project
IFC is bringing its journalism documentary series back for a second season, and NAMLE is joining again as a partner. The Media Project is set to return on May 3 at 11 p.m. (ET/PT), with the first of five new installments, hosted by Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Gideon Yago (CBS, MTV). This season will cover topics on how the media shapes the American worldview. In conjunction with the series, IFC will hold town meetings in Chicago on May 21 and one in DC on May 28. Check the NAMLE website namle.net in May for further details on the town meetings.
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NAMLE Partners with Digital Nation
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier is PBS FRONTLINE's new multiplatform initiative exploring the impact of the Web and digital media on life in the 21st century. As an outreach partner, NAMLE would like to encourage members and all who are concerned about digital media's effects on work, culture, education and more to participate in the Digital Nation web site's user-generated video intiative, live online forums and a special collection of interactive educational resources. Go to pbs.org/frontline/digitalnation.
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Members on the Move & Making News
NAMLE members Lynda Bergsma, Elana Rosen, and Alan Michel have been announced as finalists for the 2009 Cable in the Classroom Leaders in Learning Awards. Congratulations!
Missouri's media literacy education community is celebrating media literacy educator and author of numerous books and articles, Art Silverblatt's, recent honor as a Viginia Betts White Quest Award for distinguished achievement in communications. Art, a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University in St. Louis, has served as a mentor and source of inspiration to students worldwide, for many years, and is a founding member and the vice-president of Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc. Art is profiled in an article in the Webster University publication The Journal. Read the article here.
The
Digital Media (DigMe) program at Roosevelt High School in
Minneapolis that NAMLE member Richard Beach is working with, was featured in an
interview on Future Tense, a
nationally syndicated program on NPR. You can listen to it online.
What have you been doing lately? NAMLE members, send us news of your
activities, and we'll include it in the UPDATE. Email us at
update@namle.net
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Mark Your Calendars
REGISTER TODAY for the NAMLE Conference 2009 "Bridging Literacies: Critical Connections in a Digital World," which will be held in Detroit, MI August 1 - 4, 2009. Visit the NAMLE website for more information. Appalachian State University's Media Literacy graduate program will offer "Media Literacy & Curriculum Development" in the Fall of 2009. The course will meet one Saturday in September on the NC campus and once in December. The rest of the time will be conducted online. A full pdf description of the course content and concepts is available at the program website. 3rd Global Conference: Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues. Tuesday 14th July - Thursday 16th July 2009, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Read the call for papers and more information about the conference at the conference website. Project Look Sharp will once again be holding its Summer Media Literacy Institute at Ithaca College in beautiful Ithaca, NY (a place that the Utne Reader once called "the most enlightened city in the United States). The dates are July 13-17, 2009; details are available at: www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/.
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Media Lit in the Huffpo
The Huffington Post ran an article this month titled "Media Literacy 101: Power to the People," written by Susan Moeller. Read it at huffingtonpost.com.
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New MLE Resources
The AoC MLE clearinghouse ( aocmedialiteracy.org) is a global repository of information, resources, and good practices relevant to media literacy education, media education policy and youth media. The clearinghouse can be navigated in three languages (Arabic, English, Spanish), but content can be posted on any language. It encourages the user's active participation, allowing for interaction and promoting at the same time the development of an international community of knowledge relevant to media literacy education. The clearinghouse has become an international portal of reference in the field with currently over 13,000 unique visitors per month. Boston Public Television station WGBH has created a free kit for parents to help use TV and the web to the benefit of the entire family. The kit, entitled "Kids, Media and Values: A Wake Up Call" has researched facts about the impact of media on children and helpful and practical resources on how to develop healthy watching habits that are productive, stimulating and safe. The kit can be accessed by registering on the web site KidsMediaMatters.org. |
Calls for proposals / submissions
Academic Exchange Quarterly will publish an edition focused on Media Literacy in Winter 2009, edited by Lena Lee of Ohio University. The journal encourages submissions from scholars, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators at all levels and across disciplines, who have studied media literacy and the uses of specific educational media and technologies for young children and youth. The call for proposals is available online. Deadline for submission is the end of August 2009.
Afterimage (journal of media arts & cultural criticism, www.vsw.org) is looking for writers for the following;
- to cover the numerous media literacy-focused conferences and events taking place between Winter 08-09 and July 2009 in short reports of up to 500 words
- to contribute "portraits" of media literacy organizations (also 500 words).
- to write short reviews (100-200 words) of media literacy materials (such as CD-ROMs from NMMLP and videos from MEF)
Contact: Editor Karen vanMeenen at afterimageeditor@yahoo.com
The Electronic Journal of Communication (EJC) is soliciting submissins for a special issue on Communication Pedagogy in the Age of Social Media. The deadline for completed manuscripts has been extended to June 15, 2009. The call for papers is available online.
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Opportunities
Cable in the Classroom is soliciting proposals for their Media Smart Research Awards program, which bestows up to three awards of $2,000 each for research
papers in media literacy written by graduate students attending
accredited colleges and universities in the United States.
Undergraduate students at such institutions may, with the
recommendation of their faculty advisor, also submit papers for
consideration. This year's deadline is May 31, 2009. The Media Education Lab at Temple University has several positions open for the summer. Learn more at mediaeducationlab.com/job-openings-summer-2009Youth Radio is hiring a Media Campaign Manager for its statewide teen dating violence initiative, BOM (Boss of Me). www.youthradio.org
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