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2020<\/strong>
\nDecember<\/strong>
\nWe note with sadness the passing of friend and media literacy pioneer Marieli Rowe<\/a>, leader of the National Telemedia Council from Madison WI
\nRegister here<\/a> for the January 11 webinar “Using Super Bowl Ads to Teach Critical Thinking and Media Literacy”
\nPosted new 2020 Photos of The Year page<\/a> (under construction)<\/p>\n

November<\/strong>
\n22 \u00a0Seeing Through Toy C0mmercials<\/a>
\n<\/strong>12\u00a0\u00a0 Presenter, FYSE 138\/FYSS 101 The Art & Science of Resilience, College of Charleston, Charleston SC
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

October<\/strong>
\n31\u00a0 I was a presenter on the webinar<\/a> sponsored by Media & Information Literacy in India organization
\n28 I was a panelist on “Let’s Talk Media Literacy”<\/a> sponsored by the Colorado Virtual Library and Colorado Department of Education
\n21 Picturing The Pandemic:<\/a> my latest blogpost at MiddleWeb
\n21\u00a0 I hosted Presidential Debates & Commercials: What Students Need To Know, a webinar for the SC Council for the Social Studies
\n19\u00a0 I co-hosted “Visualizing The Trump Presidency” webinar, archived here<\/a>
\n14,16\u00a0 I hosted\u00a0 two webinars “Helping Students Better Judge the Credibility of Information” for the Writing Improvement Network
\n10\u00a0 I hosted a webinar for educators participating in Project Citizen on media literacy and research skills for students.<\/p>\n

September<\/strong>
\nI was a panelist on Media & Democracy: Time For A Reset (webinar)<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Blogpost: Use Print & TV Ads As Informational Texts<\/a> (Middleweb)
\nI presented Media Literacy to the Clemson (SC) Sertoma club via webinar
\nI presented a webinar on media literacy in a fake news world for the Tree of Life (Columbia SC)
\n<\/strong>Columbia Metropolitan Magazine interviewed me for this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July
\n<\/strong>I was the keynote speaker for\u00a0 the international webinar<\/a> “Media Literacy: Critical Thinking for the Information Age,” hosted by the Prestige Institute for Management & Research, Indore India (July 30)<\/p>\n

My blogpost, “Media Literacy: Teaching Kids About Political Ads”<\/a> was published July 30 at Middleweb.com<\/p>\n

My topic “Media Literacy as A Lens to Media Coverage”<\/a>\u00a0 examined media coverage of Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement, during a webinar for the South Carolina Council of African American Studies.\u00a0 (July 28)<\/p>\n

June<\/strong>
\nHere is a Zoom<\/a>, with my new colleague from Bangalore, India, in which we discuss media literacy (for students) and deconstruct a print ad and some commercials.<\/p>\n

Video As Witness\/Historian\/Primary Source<\/a> (Middleweb)<\/p>\n

From June 2 until\u00a0 July 14, I\u00a0 hosted a virtual book club with Ohio librarians who read “Close Reading The Media.”<\/p>\n

May<\/strong>
\nI co-hosted the Magazine Media Literacy Webinar with Renee Hobbs; archived here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

April<\/strong>
\nMediaLiteracyNow posts my column<\/a> about efforts to pass a medialiteracy law here
\nSC ETV posted my blog: Why Verfication Skills Are Important for Students<\/a>
\nI hosted the webinar MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS FOR ALL STUDENTS<\/a>, sponsored by SC-ETV<\/p>\n

March<\/strong>
\nWhy Media Literacy Is Important in Science Classrooms<\/a> (MiddleWeb)
\nI was interviewed by the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Blog:\u00a0 Fake News, State Standards, Media Literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

February<\/strong>
\nI was a participant at\u00a0 the 4 SCASL regional meetings of school librarians. I keynoted in the morning on media literacy and fake news and in the afternoon I conducted concurrent sessions demonstrating my approach to incorporating media literacy into instruction.<\/p>\n

I was interviewed for the post: The State of Media Literacy Education<\/a> (2\/19)
\n
\n<\/strong>Education Week makes note of SC’s efforts to strengthen media literacy<\/a> (2\/13)
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\n<\/strong>Verification: The #1 Vocabulary Word for 2020<\/a> (Middleweb blogpost)<\/p>\n

I testified (February 5) before the SC House Education Subcommitee in support of\u00a0HB 4673<\/a><\/p>\n

NCTE published my post on its blog<\/a> about films based on true stories<\/p>\n

January<\/strong>
\nI was quoted in two Education Week stories: Making Current Events Connections to Lessons<\/a> and
\nFake News is Everywhere, But Students Can Be Taught To Spot It<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Media Influencers: Who Can You Trust?<\/a> (Middleweb)<\/p>\n

I joined Rep. Seth Rose to speak to Fox Carolina<\/a> on the media literacy measure
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\n<\/strong>MediaLiteracyNow releases report<\/a> on media literacy law effort in 50 states<\/p>\n

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