Sherri Hope Culver
NAMLE President
Share your story! Join a collection of media literacy educators sharing stories describing their curriculum, activity, advocacy, grassroots organizing, young media project or other exciting practice. Keep details under 500 words and be sure to provide a link to more online content. Take 5 minutes and pass it forward. (Stories needed by April 30)
All stories will be included in a report on our website so that others can connect with you directly for more information.
Thanks,Sherri Hope Culver
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NAMLE Needs You.
You can make a difference and advance the mission of media literacy education by joining a NAMLE Committee: Communications Committee
Karen Zill · Web management & external communicationDevelopment Committee Cindy Pulley · Fundraising: Corporate and foundationProgram Committee Paul Milhailidis · Programmatic development, Journal of Media Literacy EducationConference Committee Deb Parker · Coordination & Development of 2011 NAMLE Conference
Conference Program Committee
Vanessa Domine · Programmatic Development of 2011 NAMLE Conference · Editor, Update Newsletter
Membership Committee
Kelly Mendoza·Membership recruitment, renewal & service
Finance Committee
Brian Cohen · Budgeting, reporting, strategizing & all things fiscal |
Vote Now.
One of the most important roles of NAMLE members is to elect board members.
On April 15th all current NAMLE members received e-mail instructionson voting in the 2010 NAMLE Board Election.
See who's on the slate of candidates.
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Ever wonder what happens in the NAMLE Board Room?
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The
purpose of
media literacy education is to develop the habits of inquiry
and skills of expression needed by critical thinkers, effective
communicators, and active citizens in today's world.
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Call for Nominations
The NCTE Commission on Media is proud to announce that it will award the fifth annual Media Literacy Award at the NCTE Annual Convention in Orlando Nov 18-21, 2010. Previous award winners are profiled here. Deadline for nominations is Wed, June 30th.
The award winner will be notified by the end of August and will receive a plaque along with a cash award.
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 The Journal
of Media Literacy Education is
now interactive!NAMLE's online
journal now
has a blog
and forum for discussion. Read the
current issue &
Join the Conversation
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What's new
with you?
Tell us and we'll include it in a future issue of Update.
We are especially interested in receiving updates from
our student, individual and organizational members.
Next submission deadline:
May 17th
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 ember Benefits
NAMLE has partnered with MediaEdu
to offer all NAMLE members a free online subscription for one year! If you are a teacher, plan ahead for fall: this online subscription includes up to 8 additional staff logins and up to 240 student logins-a value of £79.95! MediaEdu is an educational website for Media Literacy in the UK that provides online resources and support for staff and students. The site includes a guide to key concepts, interactive quizzes, a large gallery of images, podcasts, a library of media literacy clips on YouTube, schemes of work, case studies, a guide to production skills, a glossary of technical language and topic areas on different media and how to analyze and use them. Members can visit their NAMLE benefits page for instructions on how to sign up for free.
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ark Your Calendars
 2nd World Conference on Arts Education hosted by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism, UNESCO will be held May 25-28, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. 2,000 people from 193 countries will be participating. [learn more]
 Journalism that Matters
will be held June 3-6th in Detroit. The theme is Create or Die: Forging communities that initiate, incubate, and innovate. The three-day work session of results-driven journalists, entrepreneurs, programmers, technologists, bloggers, videographers, funders, artists and educators will discover, assess, shape and create new enterprises and new approaches to participatory media and civic journalism. [learn more]
 Powerful Voices for Kids Summer Institute is an intensive professional development experience developed by NAMLE-member Renee Hobbs and taught by a diverse faculty including leading scholars, experienced classroom teachers, media professionals, and educational technology specialists. It will be held July 5-9th in Philadelphia. [learn more]
 Media Literacy Week 2010 takes place Nov 1-5thin Canada. NAMLE-member Media Awareness Network in partnership with the Canadian Teachers' Federation has selected Gender and Mediaas the theme. Submit an innovative educator or youth to be featured. [learn more]
 Media Literacy Conference 2010 co-hosted by the Media Education Association and the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media in partnership with Ofcom will be held Nov 19-20th, 2010 in London, UK. The conference offers a forum and interdisciplinary networking space for teachers, academics and policy-makers to engage in developing media education in a variety of contexts.[learn more] NAMLE 2011 Conference Join us at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia June 22-25, 2011for panels, presentations, networking and professional development opportunities centered on the theme: Global Visions/Local Connections: Voices of Media Literacy Education. [learn more]····························································
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