The Media Spot

Super Battery Fairy, a PSA on recycling rechargeable batteries by Class 4-302 at PS 124 will be showing at the Thirteen/WNET, WLIW21 Celebration of Teaching and Learning as a winner of the 2010 Chase Multimedia in the Classroom Awards Competition.

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.