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).
The Last Survivor is a documentary that follows the survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities–The Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur, and Congo–asking each of us to learn from the mistakes of the past in order to inform how we, as an international community, respond to similar issues today. Big Picture Instructional Design (www.bigpictureinstructional.com) and Righteous Pictures (www.righteouspictures.com) collaborated [...]
Arlington, VA—Today’s students are surrounded by so many different sources of information and media, that it can overwhelming. As part of its ongoing efforts to promote student journalism and civic engagement, PBS NewsHour Extra is pleased to announce its newly updated media literacy curriculum. The curriculum is designed to help students critically evaluate media and [...]
NAMLE member Maddy Steinhart has been working with Project Girl Performance Collective (PGPC) in New York. Maddy described how their work is promotes media literacy: “Project Girl links critical thinking and viewing skills with media literacy. There target audience is girls k-12. There is a very delicate balance between traditions and self-esteem and the way girls are [...]
NAMLE strongly encourages educators who teach media literacy to consider applying for this national award. The deadline is June 30, 2012. The Beck Foundation has underwritten the $2,000 prize. The winner(s) will be recognized during a ceremony at the NCTE 2012 national conference in Las Vegas. Details are available at: http://www.ncte.org/volunteer/groups/mediacomm/medialitaward
Hello, NAMLE members! We know your commitment to MLE is top notch. Serving on the 2013 Conference Planning Committee is a sure way to have an impact on the development of MLE practices throughout the nation (and around the world). NAMLE needs your expertise and energy now to put together the best NAMLE Conference yet in Los Angeles [...]
SANTA FE, NM – The KIDS FIRST! 2012 Film Critics were just announced and they are already hard at work. Film Critic Blake Hawes traveled to Honolulu to interview the cast from Journey 2 and to learn the Rock’s Pec Pop of Love. The winners serve a twelve-month term, attending Red Carpet events and advance [...]
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