The Media Spot

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.

I'm excited to announce, and dig in to Volume 1, Issue 1 of The Journal of Media Literacy Education! JMLE is an online interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education.

Daniel Storchan and I will be co-presenting at the 2009 National Association for Media Literacy Education Conference in Detroit during the first week in August. The theme of the conference is "Bridging Literacies: Critical Connections in a Digital World", which is right in our wheelhouse. Dan and I have been working for the better part of the decade in a variety of capacities to bridge traditional learning environments with new media and technologies.

Here are notes and resources from the panel we presented on with Sherri Hope Culver, Renee Hobbs, and Frank Baker, at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference on March 7th, 2009.
Schools are working with a flexible definition of literacy, influenced by established core concepts of media literacy. This presentation showed how schools we work with are approaching the planning and execution of productions that address objectives across their curricula.

On March 7th at the Hilton New York, I will be participating in a panel discussion titled: Watch it, Make it, Analyze it: Building Media Literacy Skills in Young People.  The panel is part of the 4th annual Thirteen/WNET, WLIW21 Celebration of Teaching and Learning. 

Panelists include Sherri Hope Culver, president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, Frank Baker of the Media Literacy Clearinghouse, and moderator Renee Hobbs of Temple University's Media Education Lab. We will discuss changes in the definition of literacy in the face of the 21st century media environment.  I will bring to the table my experiences as an educator working directly with K-12 teachers and students integrating digital media within literacy curricula to round out this group of scholars, organizers and curriculum developers.

The Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE) is a new online, media education initiative from the National Association for Media Literacy Education (formerly the Alliance for a Media Literate America). Rhys was recently named to its inaugural editorial board! Congratulations, Rhys!

The Journal is co-edited by media education luminaries Renee Hobbs and Amy Petersen Jensen.