2021
DECEMBER
New page: 2021 Photos of the Year
Updated: dates for award nominations in “For Your Consideration”
Continuous update: Pandemic Magazine Covers (database)
12th- I participated in the E-Dialogue webinar for the Indian Institute for Mass Communications Department of Advertising & Marketing
NOVEMBER
Helping Students Become Adept Media Evaluators (Middleweb)
I presented “Critically Analyzing Media” a webinar for educators sponsored by the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA)
OCTOBER
I conducted a hands-on visual literacy activity at a gathering of SC teachers of the Holocaust, Wando Public Library, Mt Pleasant, South Carolina
I presented “Stories of Survival” and “Teaching Media Literacy in Civics” at the annual meeting of the SC Council for the Social Studies, Myrtle Beach SC
I cohosted the webinar “Teaching The Holocaust In An Age of Disinformation”
I was the keynote speaker at the Olde English Consortium Professional Development Day,
Clover 9th Grade Center, Clover SC
SEPTEMBER
My chapter on media literacy is included in this new text: “Kids and Today’s Media”
Why should educators (or their students) care about the Emmy Awards? I will tell you why
(Middleweb blogpost)
AUGUST
I was quoted in “Horry Schools bans teacher use of CNN, Fox News and others” a news story, published in Myrtle Beach SC
Link to database of lesson plans written by participants in the Media Literacy Class for Washington State educators
JULY
What Do We Want Students To Know About The Media? ( Blogpost at Middleweb)
JUNE
Thanks to the University of Washington for its invaluable assistance in my teaching a 9 week media literacy course for Washington State librarians and other educators.
I keynoted the SCASL Summer Institute June 22 (virtually) with the talk “What Do We Want Students To Know About The Media?”
Now archived: I was a panelist on the NCTE webinar “TRUST ME: A Conversation on Critical Media Literacy”
MAY
I was quoted in this story for EdTech K-12 Magazine.
Teaching Media Literacy is Not Optional (Middleweb blogpost)
The archive of the May 18 “50 Best Media Literacy Books” webinar I co-hosted is now online
APRIL
I co-hosted Vaccine Propaganda, a webinar with Renee Hobbs (Media Ed Lab)
I was the guest (April 29) in the webinar with teachers and students involved in “Survivor Media Review”
Participants were from from Turkey, Jordan, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, Romania, Crotia, Latvia and Ukraine.
MARCH
I co-hosted TEACHING THE OSCARS with Renee Hobbs (Media Ed Lab-webinar)
My letter was published by The State newspaper
Helping Students Interrogate Images (Middleweb)
FEBRUARY
I wrote this column for Hilton Head (SC) Magazine
The archive of our READING THE PICTURES February 10 webinar is now available.
I testified February 9 in support of HB 3332 in front of the SC House Education Committee
JANUARY
What To Do About Internet Literacy? (MiddleWeb)
Watch the archive of our webinar on using Super Bowl ads in the classroom
Renee Hobbs and I are collaborating on a monthly media literacy webinar series for educators.
The next of which will be READING THE PICTURES, February 10, 4pm ET. Register here.
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