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MEDUCON Austin to be held from June 8th to 10th

[ 0 ] May 10, 2012

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 & [...]

Applications open for the 2012 NCTE Media Literacy Award

Applications open for the 2012 NCTE Media Literacy Award

[ 0 ] May 10, 2012

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 [...]

NAEYC Position Statement on Technology and Young Children

NAEYC Position Statement on Technology and Young Children

[ 0 ] May 10, 2012

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 [...]

NAMLE Seeks Executive Director

[ 0 ] May 9, 2012

Position Part time Executive Director, approximately 20 hours per week.  This is a “virtual” position. The Executive Director may be located anywhere within the United States.  The Executive Director must be available to attend the NAMLE conference (July 11-13, 2013) and the NAMLE Board retreat (January 11-13, 2013). Contract dates September 1, 2012 through September [...]

Project Look Sharp’s Media Literacy Summer Institute 2012, 5-day Immersion Course

Project Look Sharp’s Media Literacy Summer Institute 2012, 5-day Immersion Course

[ 0 ] April 24, 2012

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 [...]

Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls Releases “Elements of Healthy Media” Today!

Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls Releases “Elements of Healthy Media” Today!

[ 0 ] April 20, 2012

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 [...]