Conference Fees Reduced, Thanks to Sponsors!
Thanks to our tremendous sponsors, we can now reduce the fees for the NAMLE 2013 Conference. Register now, and book your hotel by June 19th! We’re offering fascinating sessions over two amazing days.
Thanks to our tremendous sponsors, we can now reduce the fees for the NAMLE 2013 Conference. Register now, and book your hotel by June 19th! We’re offering fascinating sessions over two amazing days.
At the NAMLE 2013 Conference this July 12-13, Becky Herr Stephenson & Meryl Alper will demonstrate and discuss a prototype for a children’s educational transmedia experience built by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and designers at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. Flotsam, the Caldecott Award-winning wordless picture book by David [...]
Resource Link Teaching on Diego Rivera mural in English Description This slideshow explains how to teach about Diego Rivera’s monumental mural “Pan American Unity” in normal English composition classes at college and pre-transfer levels. Resource submitted by NAMLE Member Jeffrey Goldthorpe The Resource Hub Member Benefit The Resource Hub is a collective ‘smackdown’ of curricula and other useful links [...]
“This lesson, “Morality & Mortality in Viking Society,” is original student work created for the teacher preparation core course CI 2300: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age at Appalachian State University.
1) What do you do? I founded Big Picture Instructional Design to get all the stakeholders in the educational space talking about — and watching — movies. As former classroom educators with extensive experience in nonprofit work, educational administration, and media literacy, BPID increases the reach and impact of issue-driven films, television projects, and documentaries by creating [...]
Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching For Achievement in City Schools (Ernest Morrell, Rudy Dueñnas, Veronica Garcia, Jorge Lopez) ($26.96 + free shipping). This practical book examines how teaching media in high school English and social studies classrooms can address major challenges in our educational system. The authors argue that, in addition to providing underserved youth with access [...]
Founded in 1999, Scenarios USA is a national non-profit organization that uses writing and film to foster youth leadership, advocacy and self-expression in students across the country, with a focus on marginalized populations and underserved communities. We believe that by valuing youth and their stories, we strengthen academic achievement, promote healthy relationships and empower a [...]
Check out additional sessions and register here! SciGirls co-executive producers Joan Freese and Kathleen Shugrue proved that they were as powerful as any superheroes when they broke through traditional barriers with their strategy for a new transmedia experience. Their goal? To change how millions of tween girls think about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. How? By [...]
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National Literacy Action Week (NLAW) will take place January 28th-February 3rd, 2013.
During this week, campus literacy programs nationwide join together to raise awareness about literacy and create change on their campuses and in their communities.
If you’re attending, consider reporting back to NAMLE on the roll of media literacy in the conference. If you are presenting on media literacy at this conference, please let us know.