Rhys is a member of the NAMLE board of directors currently serving the Executive Committee as Secretary, and is chair of the Communications Committee. He is a Brooklyn based educator and consultant who integrates media literacy education into a variety of learning environments around the country. He is co-founder and director of The Media Spot, where he specializes in working with organizations, educators and students to design and implement curricula that align media literacy concepts with learning goals through 21st century forms of communication.
Rhys also works with schools and non-profits to create and maintain customized online learning networks, sharing all teaching resources, production notes, articles, tutorials, and archived student productions with the educational community through themediaspot.org.
Additionally, Rhys provides workshops and embedded professional development to K-12 schools throughout New York City as an educational technology consultant with Digital School Solutions (DSS).
Please register before May 15th to get early bird discounts for educators and media scholars for the MEDUCON Austin to be held from June 8th to 10th at the University of Texas Alumni Center, 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, TX 78712. Conference objectives: Learn and understand ways of enhancing the positive influence of media & [...]
The NCTE Media Literacy Award Committee is proud to announce that it will award the seventh annual Media Literacy Award at the Annual Convention in Las Vegas, November 15-18, 2012. Go to ncte.org for more details. Previous award winners are profiled on FrankBaker.com. Deadline for application for the 2012 award is Monday, June 30th, 2012. The [...]
A joint position statement was recently issued by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College. Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 View the interactive PDF below, and see [...]
We invite you to join/rejoin NAMLE to help forward our vision—to help individuals of all ages develop the habits of inquiry and the skills of expression that they need to be critical thinkers, effective communicators and active citizens in today’s world. Your voice is essential as we gear up for the 2013 conference in Los Angeles, [...]
NAMLE organizational member, Project Look Sharp, a media literacy initiative at Ithaca College, will be hosting its annual Media Literacy Summer Institute from July 16 through July 20 at Ithaca College, a private college in upstate New York. The Summer Institute is a five-day immersion course in integrating critical thinking, media analysis and media production [...]
April 16th marked the release of the Elements of Healthy Media, the first part of the Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls‘ report that elaborates on what the coalition which is developing and sharing concrete recommendations for promoting healthy images in the media hopes to achieve. Using research from Girl Scouts of the USA, the [...]
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