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Alcohol
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Assessment
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Cosmetics
- Advertising: Cosmetics
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- Cosmetics: Sexual Images
- Cosmetics: Teaching Standards
- Should You Worry About the Chemicals In Your Makeup?
Credit Cards
- Advertising: Credit Cards
- Credit Card Ads Place Renewed Focus on Security
- Credit Cards Putting Teens In Debt
- Credit Cards: Ad Analysis Worksheet
- Credit Cards: Ads To Analyze
- Credit Cards: Lesson Plans
- Credit Cards: Questions To Consider
- New Credit Card Spots Show Fierce Competition for High-End Consumers
- Social Turnabout In Credit Card Advertising
Critical Inquiry
Documentaries
- Documentaries: Lesson Plans
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- Documentaries: TV Networks Featuring Documentaries
- Film Documentaries
- Holocaust Documentaries
- Using Documentaries In The Classroom
Edward R. Murrow
- Edward R. Murrow
- Edward R. Murrow – Buchenwald
- Edward R. Murrow – Film “Good Night and Good Luck
- Edward R. Murrow – Harvest of Shame
- Edward R. Murrow – Hear It Now
- Edward R. Murrow – McCarthy Era
- Edward R. Murrow – Papers
- Edward R. Murrow – Recommended Text/Recordings
- Edward R. Murrow – Recommended Websites
- Edward R. Murrow – WW2
Food
Gender Issues
Genre
Good Night and Good Luck
Information Literacy
Informational texts
Is Seeing Believing
- Is Seeing Believing: Visual Literacy for the 21st Century Digital Information Age
- Is Seeing Believing: Advertising
- Is Seeing Believing: Case of the Cottingley Fairy Photographs
- Is Seeing Believing: Curriculum
- Is Seeing Believing: Early Photography
- Is Seeing Believing: Images From War
- Is Seeing Believing: Magazines and Popular Culture
- Is Seeing Believing: Movie Posters
- Is Seeing Believing: News / Newspapers
- Is Seeing Believing: Politics
- Is Seeing Believing: Recommended Books
- Is Seeing Believing: Recommended Readings
- Is Seeing Believing: Shark
- Is Seeing Believing: Space Shuttle
- Is Seeing Believing: Spaghetti Harvest
- Is Seeing Believing: World Trade Center
- Is Seeing Believing?
- Lesson Plan: Is Seeing Believing (2009)
Language of Film
- Language of Film
- Language of Film: Animation
- Language of Film: Art Direction
- Language of Film: Audio
- Language of Film: Business
- Language of Film: Cinematography
- Language of Film: Classic Films
- Language of Film: Costumes/Wardrobe
- Language of Film: Curricula
- Language of Film: Digital Storytelling
- Language of Film: Directing
- Language of Film: Documentary
- Language of Film: Editing
- Language of Film: Film Criticism
- Language of Film: Film Language / Film Literacy
- Language of Film: Lighting
- Language of Film: Makeup
- Language of Film: Marketing
- Language of Film: Production
- Language of Film: Representation
- Language of Film: Scriptwriting
- Language of Film: Special Effects
- Language of Film: Storyboards
- Language of Film: Symbolism
- Language of Film: Acting
- Language of Film: Film History
- Language of Film: Ideology
Lesson Plans
Magazines
- 2016 Presidential Candidates-Magazine Covers
- 2016-2023 Donald Trump Magazine Covers (Illustration)
- 2024 Donald Trump Magazine Covers (Illustration)
- Bernie Sanders Magazine Illustration
- Bernie Sanders Magazines Photo
- Biden Magazine Covers
- DeSantis Magazine Covers
- Donald Trump Magazine Covers (Photo)
- Hillary Clinton Magazines Illustration
- Hillary Clinton Magazines Photo
- Israeli War Magazine Covers
- MAD magazine covers
- Magazine Cover Representations of the President
- Magazine Cover: Questions to Consider
- Magazines About Media Education
- Magazines: Advertising
- Magazines: Film
- Magazines: Media Arts
- Magazines: Media Education
- Magazines: Media Studies
- Magazines: News and Journalism
- Magazines: Radio and Music
- Magazines: TV
- Magazines: Visual Literacy and Photography
- Medium: Magazines
- Pandemic Magazine Covers
- Pandemic Magazine Covers 2
- Putin Ukraine War Magazines
- Sample Magazine Cover Deconstruction
- Ted Cruz & Others Magazine Covers
- Ted Cruz Magazines Photos
Math In The Media
- 2000-2015 Prime Time Ad Costs
- Math in the Media
- Math in the Media: 30 Second Ad Costs
- Math in the Media: Accuracy and Ratings
- Math in the Media: Activity 1
- Math in the Media: Activity 2
- Math in the Media: Activity 3
- Math in the Media: Activity 4 and 5
- Math in the Media: Activity 6
- Math in the Media: Articles About Ratings
- Math in the Media: Introduction to TV Program Ratings
- Math in the Media: Market Sizes
- Math in the Media: One Week’s Ratings
- Math in the Media: Related Lesson Plans
- Math in the Media: Sweeps
- Math in the Media: Syndicated Programming
- Math in the Media: What Do Ratings Represent?
- Math in the Media: What is Rating / Share?
Mathematics/Science
McRel
Media and Politics
- Deconstruct Political Campaign Billboard
- Media and Politics
- Media and Politics: Ad Watch Columns
- Media and Politics: Background/ Introduction/ Standards
- Media and Politics: Campaign / Election News Resources
- Media and Politics: Candidates Websites / Streams
- Media and Politics: Critical Inquiry
- Media and Politics: Election Sites for Teachers and Students
- Media and Politics: In the News
- Media and Politics: In the News (2004-2006)
- Media and Politics: In the News (2007)
- Media and Politics: In the News (2008)
- Media and Politics: In the News (2009)
- Media and Politics: In the News (2010)
- Media and Politics: In the News (2011)
- Media and Politics: In the News (2012)
- Media and Politics: Key Quotes
- Media and Politics: Lesson Plans
- Media and Politics: Media Literacy
- Media and Politics: Objectives/ Preparing Students
- Media and Politics: Past Campaign Ads
- Media and Politics: Recommended Texts
- Media and Politics: Recommended Videos
- Media and Politics: Teaching Suggestion (NCSS)
- Media and Politics: Web Resources
Media Art
Media Criticism
Media Literacy
Media Literacy Events
Media Ownership
Medium
Miscellaneous
Motion Pictures
- 2009 SCCTE: Film in the Literature Classroom
- Analyzing And Creating Movie Marketing Posters
- Common Core Standards & Connections To Film
- DVDs and DVD Extras That Help Teach The Language of Film
- For Your Consideration: Marketing TV/Movies At Awards Time
- Motion Pictures / Film Study
- Motion Pictures: Online Film Lesson Plans
- Motion Pictures: Other Text Recommendations
- Motion Pictures: Recommended Books
- Motion Pictures: Recommended Film Periodicals
- Motion Pictures: Recommended Teacher Texts/DVDs
- Motion Pictures: Recommended Texts (K-12)
- Movie Trailers As Persuasive Texts
- Movies Are Not History
- Teacher’s Guide to The Academy Awards
Narrative
Nascar
News / Resources / Articles
News and Revised Resources
News/Journalism
Olympics
Parody/Satire
Photography
- 2014’s Best Images / Photos
- 2016 Photos Of The Year
- 2017 Photos of The Year
- 2018 Photos of The Year
- 2020 Photos of the Year
- 2021 Photos of the Year
- 2022 Photos of The Year
- 2023 Photos of the Year
- 5 C Approach To Visual Texts
- Photography and Visual Literacy
- Visual Literacy Defined
- Visual Literacy: Books
- Visual Literacy: Civil Rights Photography Books
- Visual Literacy: Civil War Photography Books
- Visual Literacy: Elementary
- Visual Literacy: General Photo / Visual Literacy Books
- Visual Literacy: Journals and Periodicals
- Visual Literacy: Lesson Plans
- Visual Literacy: Photo Compilation Books and DVDs
- Visual Literacy: Readings
- Visual Literacy: Secondary
- Visual Literacy: Standards
- Visual Literacy: Texts
Politics
Popular
- 2024 Photos of The Year
- 2024 SCASL ML Presentation
- 2024 Super Bowl Ad Media Literacy Activity
- 2025 Photos of the Year
- Audience Activity: Who Is The Audience?
- Can You Trust The News?
- Charleston Post & Courier Holocaust Newspaper Supplements
- Close Reading The Media (Book)
- Deportation Newspaper Headline
- DON’T KNOW HOW TO TEACH MEDIA LITERACY? CAN YOU RELATE?
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Effect of Media Exposure on Child Health
- Fact Check: Educating for The Truth
- Fake News Curriculum Resources
- Fake News- Text & Periodical Recommendations
- Frank Baker 2025 House Testimony on Media Literacy Bill
- Frank’s Favorite Photos
- FREE CLASSROOM SETS “We Survived The Holocaust”
- Graphic novel tells Columbia couple’s Holocaust story. Some local schools won’t use it
- Help Students Understand & Combat Conspiracy Theory
- How A Holocaust Survivor Was Brought Back to Life
- How To Read A Political Ad (revised, 2024)
- How To Watch A Presidential Debate: An Updated Media Literacy Guide for Teachers and Students (Revised for 2024)
- Is Seeing Believing? Ensuring Students Are Prepared for a World of Constantly Altered Images and & Videos
- Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron, June 8, 2024
- Kamala Harris Magazine Covers
- Lesson Plan: Is Seeing Believing (2009)
- Lincoln Plays Guitar
- Magazine Media Literacy
- Media Arts Support Document (Resurrected)
- Media Use Statistics
- MiddleWeb Columns Blogs by Frank Baker
- New Book Announcement
- New Books
- Newborn & Baby Chicks
- News Literacy Week Articles
- Protected: Personal Calendar
- Popular
- Prime Time Ad Costs: 2024-2025 Season
- Procedure For Determining Cost of Political Ads on TV Stations (revised 2024)
- Publications
- Real or Fake? Book Series
- Recommended K-12: Secondary
- Recommended K12 Books: Elementary
- Resources (Texts/Workbooks/ Multimedia) With Activities and Lesson Plans
- Ruby throated Hummingbird
- Sample Page
- SC Council of the Holocaust Professional Development
- Seeing Through Toy Commercials: What Kids, Parents and Teachers Should Know
- STEM/STEAM & The Movie SCIENCE
- Students Should Know
- Super Bowl Ad Analysis Worksheet
- Teacher Guide: We Survived The Holocaust
- Teaching Election 2024 Doesn’t Have to be Controversial
- Techniques of Persuasion
- The People’s Choice: Digital Imagery & The Art of Persuasion
- The Post- Production Stills
- Trump 2024-2026 Magazine Covers
- Trump Photo for Verification
- Understanding AI & Algorithmic Literacy
- USC Honor Students’ Reflections Upon Reading “We Survived The Holocaust”
- Verify The Image Activity
- Videos LOF Audio
- Who’s Advertising What In Super Bowl 59? Identify the Target Audience
- WHO’S ADVERTISING WHAT IN SUPER BOWL 60?
Popular Visual Culture
- Advertising and Color Use: How It Affects Our Emotions
- Art: Popular Visual Culture
- Cultural Stereotypes in Tourist Advertisements
- Discovering and Dissecting Identity
- Echoes of Popular Music: Appearance and Aesthetics in Adolescent Peer Groups
- Pop Star Poster Design: Critical Analysis and Practical Application
- Popular Product Aesthetics and Gender
- Popular Visual Culture: Elementary School Lessons
- Popular Visual Culture: High School Lessons
- Popular Visual Culture: Middle School Lessons
- Remaking Barbie
- Thinking Through a Child Consumer
- Using Magazines and Zines to Explore Stereotypical Gender Roles
- Using Reality Television to Explore Ideology and Identity
- Virtual Identities
- When Rubber Meets the Road: Exercises in Media Literacy
Prescription Drugs
- Advertising Drugs: A-B
- Advertising Drugs: Ad Rules
- Advertising Drugs: C-F
- Advertising Drugs: Connection to Health Teaching Standards
- Advertising Drugs: G-P
- Advertising Drugs: History
- Advertising Drugs: Ideas For Teachers
- Advertising Drugs: R-S
- Advertising Drugs: Recommended Articles and Websites
- Advertising Drugs: T-Z
- Advertising: Drugs
Product Placement
Production
Representation
Research
Scriptwriting
Semiotics
Smoking/Tobacco
- Smoking / Tobacco
- Smoking and Films
- Smoking and Music
- Smoking: Background
- Smoking: Books
- Smoking: Counter Ad Examples
- Smoking: Curriculum
- Smoking: In the News
- Smoking: Introduction
- Smoking: Procedures
- Smoking: Recommended Videos
- Smoking: Related Links
- Smoking: Tobacco Ads
- Smoking: Tobacco on TV
- Smoking: Tobacco Sweepstakes and Giveaways
Sports
Stereotypes
Super Bowl
- Super Bowl Ads from Previous Years
- Super Bowl Ads To Cost $2.4 Million
- Super Bowl Ads: AdAge/AdWeek
- Super Bowl Ads: Getting Started
- Super Bowl Ads: Infographics
- Super Bowl Ads: Just The Basics
- Super Bowl Ads: Media Literacy Questions
- Super Bowl Ads: USA TODAY
- Super Bowl Ads: News
- Using Super Bowl Ads In The Classroom
- Using Super Bowl Ads In The Classroom (USA TODAY)
Teaching Resources
- Media Education Bibliography (2006)
- Mike Gange: Biography
- Teaching Resources
- Teaching Resources: Articles
- Teaching Resources: Books
- Teaching Resources: Links
- Teaching Resources: Magazines
- Teaching Resources: Media Literacy
- Teaching Resources: Media Literacy Websites
- Teaching Resources: Media News
- Teaching Resources: Mike Gange
- Teaching Resources: TV Shows
- Teaching Resources: Videos
Teaching Standards
Television
To Kill A Mockingbird
- Harper Lee Receives Medal of Freedom
- Obituary: Alexander Golitzen
- Obituary: Alice Ghostley
- Obituary: Brock Peters
- Obituary: Henry Bumstead
- Obituary: Horton Foote
- Obituary: Robert Mulligan
- TKAM – Variety Original Review
- TKAM – Awards
- TKAM – Books
- TKAM – Lobby Cards
- TKAM – LOOK Magazine Original Review
- TKAM – Movie Posters
- TKAM – Original Newspaper Advertisements
- TKAM – Soundtrack
- TKAM – TIME Magazine Original Review
- TKAM – Times DVD Release Review (1998)
- TKAM – Video/DVD
- TKAM Editing Exercise
- TKAM Hollywood Reporter Original Review
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Bibliography
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Camera Shots / Cinematography
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Editing
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Film Language
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Film Study Guide
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Framework For Analyzing Film
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Glossary
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Introduction
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Lesson Plan
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Lighting
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Media Literacy
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Move Review
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Movie Marketing
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Music
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Original Newspaper Ads
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Other Resources
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Publicity Stills
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Publicity Stills – Atticus
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Scene Analysis
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Screenplay
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Screenwriting
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Setting – Part 1
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Setting – Part 2
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Setting – Part 3
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Setting – Part 4
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Sound Effects
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Standards Correlation
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism – Part 1
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism – Part 2
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Using DVD Technology in the Classroom
Toys
- Toy Ads
- Toy Ads: Ad Analysis Worksheet
- Toy Ads: Background Readings
- Toy Ads: CARU cites Kick N Go
- Toy Ads: CARU Cites Toy Ad Maker
- Toy Ads: Cinderella’s Magical Talking Vanity
- Toy Ads: Cinderella’s Magical Talking Vanity (Notes)
- Toy Ads: Fort Mill students receive media literacy/toy ad lessons
- Toy Ads: Holiday Toy Ad Tactics
- Toy Ads: Lesson Objectives and Handouts
- Toy Ads: Lesson Plan
- Toy Ads: Little Hotties
- Toy Ads: Recommended Books
- Toy Ads: Recommended Videos
- Toy Ads: The Nag Season
- Toy Ads: Toy Ad Horror Stories
- Toys: Activity Procedures
US State Standards
- ELA Support Doc
- Introduction To Media Arts
- State Standards of Media Literacy
- State Standards: Alabama
- State Standards: Alaska
- State Standards: Arizona
- State Standards: Arkansas
- State Standards: California
- State Standards: Colorado
- State Standards: Connecticut
- State Standards: Delaware
- State Standards: Florida
- State Standards: Georgia
- State Standards: Hawaii
- State Standards: Idaho
- State Standards: Illinois
- State Standards: Indiana
- State Standards: Iowa
- State Standards: Kansas
- State Standards: Kentucky
- State Standards: Louisiana
- State Standards: Maine
- State Standards: Maryland
- State Standards: Massachusetts
- State Standards: Michigan
- State Standards: Minnesota
- State Standards: Mississippi
- State Standards: Missouri
- State Standards: Montana
- State Standards: Nebraska
- State Standards: Nevada
- State Standards: New Hampshire
- State Standards: New Jersey
- State Standards: New Mexico
- State Standards: New York
- State Standards: North Carolina
- State Standards: North Dakota
- State Standards: Ohio
- State Standards: Oklahoma
- State Standards: Oregon
- State Standards: Pennsylvania
- State Standards: Rhode Island
- State Standards: South Carolina
- State Standards: South Dakota
- State Standards: Tennessee
- State Standards: Texas
- State Standards: Utah
- State Standards: Vermont
- State Standards: Virginia
- State Standards: Washington
- State Standards: West Virginia
- State Standards: Wisconsin
- State Standards: Wyoming
Videos
- Streaming Videos for Teaching Media Literacy
- Videos For Teaching Media Literacy
- Videos: Advertising
- Videos: Agenda Setting
- Videos: Alcohol Advertising
- Videos: Animation
- Videos: Art Design
- Videos: Audio
- Videos: Bias
- Videos: Big Media
- Videos: Body Image
- Videos: Careers
- Videos: Commercialism
- Videos: Critical Thinking
- Videos: Digital Manipulation
- Videos: Digital Storytelling
- Videos: Documentary
- Videos: Filmmaking
- Videos: Food Advertising
- Videos: Gender
- Videos: Health
- Videos: Information Literacy
- Videos: Journalism
- Videos: Language of Film
- Videos: Magazines
- Videos: Marshall McLuhan
- Videos: Media
- Videos: Media Production
- Videos: Media Literacy
- Videos: Media Violence
- Videos: Motion Pictures
- Videos: Music
- Videos: New Media
- Videos: News Literacy
- Videos: Parody
- Videos: Photography
- Videos: Politics
- Videos: Prescription Drug Ads
- Videos: Product Placement
- Videos: Propaganda
- Videos: Public Relations
- Videos: Radio
- Videos: Remix
- Videos: Representation Stereotypes
- Videos: STEM
- Videos: Storyboards
- Videos: Visual Literacy
Web 2.0
- Age of Information Overload
- Medium: Recent Trends / Web 2.0
- Recent Trends: Blogs / Blogging
- Recent Trends: Digital Media
- Recent Trends: Filmmaking
- Recent Trends: Gaming / Video Games
- Recent Trends: Graphic Novels
- Recent Trends: iPod / Podcasts
- Recent Trends: PDAs
- Recent Trends: Recommended Books
- Recent Trends: Recommended Periodicals
- Recent Trends: Webquests
- The Multitasking Generation
What You See
- What You See And What You Don’t See
- What You See: Celebrity
- What You See: CNN Ad
- What You See: Commercials
- What You See: Film
- What You See: Haiti
- What You See: Magazines
- What You See: Photography
- What You See: Political Debates
- What You See: Politics
- What You See: Presidential Events
- What You See: Sports
- What You See: TV
- What You See: Video Games
What's New
- 2002: January-March
- 2002: July-August
- 2002: September-October
- 2003: August
- 2003: January
- 2003: June-July
- 2003: October
- 2004: April-May
- 2004: December
- 2004: January-February
- 2004: October-November
- 2005: December
- 2005: February
- 2005: July
- 2005: March
- 2005: May
- 2005: September
- 2006: April
- 2006: August
- 2006: December
- 2006: January-February
- 2006: June-July
- 2006: March
- 2006: October
- 2006: September
- 2007: April
- 2007: August
- 2007: December
- 2007: February
- 2007: January
- 2007: July
- 2007: June
- 2007: March
- 2007: May
- 2007: November
- 2007: October
- 2007: September
- 2008: April
- 2008: August
- 2008: December
- 2008: January-February
- 2008: July
- 2008: June
- 2008: May
- 2008: November
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- 2009: April
- 2009: August
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- 2009: January
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- 2009: May
- 2009: October
- 2009: September
- 2010: April
- 2010: February
- 2010: January
- 2010: June
- 2010: March
- 2010: May
- 2010: November-December
- 2011: February
- 2011: January
- 2011: June-August
- 2011: March-May
- 2011: November-December
- 2011: October
- 2011: September
- 2012: January-February
- 2012: July-August
- 2012: March-April
- 2012: May-June
- 2012: November-December
- 2012: September
- 2013: August
- 2013: December
- 2013: January-February
- 2013: March-April
- 2013: May-July
- 2013: November
- 2013: September-October
- 2014: January-February
- What’s New in 2015
- What’s New in 2016
- What’s New in 2017
- What’s New in 2018
- What’s New in 2019
- What’s New in 2020
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