The Media Spot

TAOTS is a brand new school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, that is building an innovative curriculum from scratch, based on the Schoolwide Enrichment Model of education.  Starting with K-1, our focus during their first year will be to help their "digital natives" develop age-appropriate technology skills as they develop the ability to communicate using a variety of media. 

In 2009, we began consulting with PS 686, The Brooklyn School of Inquiry (BSI), a gifted and talented magnet school, to build media literacy concepts and integrated technology practices into their brand new curriculum, starting with K-1.

Australian and United States Services in Education, (AUSSIE) is a professional development company renowned for their math and literacy consulting in over 650 schools in New York, Australia and New Zealand. Digital School Solutions is AUSSIE's new team of educational consultants focused on providing customized embedded professional development for schools across the country informed by the NETS standards.

Good Shepherd Services is a "A social service and youth development agency serving vulnerable New York City children and families". We began working with GSS in the Spring of 2007

We've been working with PS 124 since 2006 to integrate technology and media education into their curriculum through grade-team unit planning and curriculum mapping meetings, direct classroom production work, and professional development workshops.

The Generation Connection is a non-profit inter-generational summer camp in Gainesville, Florida. Since its inception in 2002, TMS has served on the board, and has been integrating video production and media literacy into the camp through the TGC Clips of the Day. In 2008 we began working with TGC to expand the camp to new locations -- bringing the TMS video production experience along, of course.

Rhys is an inaugural member of the editorial board of the Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE), an online, open-source interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education.

PS 130 is an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. We started working with them in 2007 to establish The PS 130 Online Learning Network, and consult with their technology committee on the development of a school-wide professional development initiative to integrate technology and media education into their curriculum.

Since September of 2007 we have been contributing to the development of The Code (released November 11, 2008), a coordinated effort by the media literacy community, supported by experts at American University and The Media Education Lab at Temple University to simplify the legalities of using copyrighted materials in an academic setting.