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DECONSTRUCT THIS! New Mexico Media Literacy Project offers a monthly deconstruction activity available for free on its website. What is the message this example is sending? What other important questions should you be asking about this advertisement? - see the ad - sample deconstruction - submit your deconstruction This example is one of many found on The Project's brand new DVD -ROM resource Challenging the Debt Industry. NMMLP CONFERENCE CIRCUIT New Mexico Media Literacy Project will be very visible in 2007. The Project will be in attendance at several major conferences and its featured national speaker - Andrea Quijada - will be presenting across the nation. The 2007 year started off with NMMLP at The National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by Free Press, in Memphis , TN on January 12-14. NMMLP and Quijada will also be at the National Media Education Conference, hosted by Alliance for Media Literate America, in St. Louis , MO on June 22-26. Check back with NMMLP to see if we are coming to a community near you … or invite a speaker to your school, organization or community. FREE MEDIA KIT AVAILABLE Media Education: A Kit for Teachers, Students, Parents and Professionals has been published in English and French by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The kit is partly a product of the MENTOR project initiated by UNESCO and supported by the European Commission. The kit proposes a prototype of media education curriculum for the basic qualification of secondary school teachers, but it also extends its modular approach and key concepts (production, language, representation, public) to adults outside the school system, be they parent, media professional or decision-maker. In addition to a teachers' manual and accompanying students' handbook, the kit also contains a manual for parents as well as a handbook on ethical relations with professionals and one on internet literacy. REVISED SMOKE SCREEN ACTION GUIDE AVAILABLE New Mexico Media Literacy Project just added a new teaching resource to our list of products! Smoke Screen: How Advertisers Cloud the Truth is a major revision of our popular pamphlet first published in 2001. In addition to the updated information, images and activities, we've redesigned the learning guide into a new, fold-out format. Smoke Screen supports state teaching standards and is appropriate to use in language arts, social studies and current events, health, and consumer education classes, as well as in after-school clubs and programs for grades 6-12. Order online or call 505-828-3129. SAVE THE DATE … The 2007 Fame & Shame Awards will take place on April 14, 2007 at the historic KiMo Theatre in downtown Albuquerque . The fame goes to the New Mexico youth who have been nominated for the Youth Kicking Tobacco's Butt Advocate of the Year Award. The shame belongs to the Hollywood celebrities who promote youth tobacco use by smoking on screen. Join youth tobacco prevention advocates from around the state in a glamorous awards show, complete with red carpet, limos and fabulous gowns! It's a lot of fun, and an unforgettable educational experience. See what happened at the 2006 Fame & Shame Awards. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Click here to subscribe if this was forwarded to you and you want to stay in touch. Click here to unsubscribe. We'll be sorry to see you go!		ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 25TH
		New Mexico Media Literacy Project has extended its annual Holiday Sale through the end of the month. The sale offers the chance to BUY any two products and get the third one FREE! (Lowest price item is free) Sale is not available to authorized resellers, nor can it be combined with any other discount. We are also offering FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING! (USPS First Class or Media Mail). Expedited and international shipping available for additional charge. Please call 505-828-3129 for more information. Sale ends January 25th, 2007.
		REGISTER NOW FOR SPRING 2007 CATALYST INSTITUTE!
		It's time to register for the New Mexico Media Literacy Project's Spring 2007 Catalyst Institute to be held March 27-30, on the beautiful natural campus of Albuquerque Academy. NMMLP is happy to announce that award-winning video artist T. Foley will be the guest speaker for the Spring 2007 Catalyst Institute. Foley is the Director of the Media Arts Lab at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Each Catalyst Institute is limited to 30 attendees - 15 New Mexico residents and 15 out-of-state applicants. Held twice a year, the Catalyst Institute offers an intensive four-day training experience in media literacy concepts and skills. NMMLP staff and guest speakers lead participants in workshops, exercises, video screenings and discussions designed to deepen understanding of media issues and provide a solid foundation for media activism. The Catalyst Institute is ideal for teachers, health professionals, community activists and others who want to make a difference. We encourage you to register online at www.nmmlp.org. If you need more information on how to register, please call us at 505-828-3129 or e-mail catalyst@nmmlp.org
		THE PROJECT OFFERS FREE SPANISH-LANGAUGE RESOURCE
		Los medios y la salud (formerly Medios y remedios) is a Spanish-language media literacy CD-ROM addressing six key issues affecting the health of young people today. Designed to be used in classrooms, family discussions and other group settings, the CD-ROM helps teens become more critical consumers of media, so they can make more informed choices about their health. The CD-ROM features 66 Spanish-language media examples from magazines, television shows and movies. Questions & answers accompany each media example, highlighting the explicit and implied messages, the persuasion techniques used, and how the media example might influence a young person's health decisions. Produced by the New Mexico Media Literacy Project for the New Mexico Department of Health, Public Health Division, Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program (TUPAC).
		*YOUR INVITED: CHALLENGING THE DEBT INDUSTRY* SCREENING**
		Challenging the Debt Industry (Cómo Desafiar a la Industria de Deudas en español) is NMMLP's new multimedia resource which combines media literacy with financial education. You can pick up a free copy of the DVD-ROM at the upcoming screening on January 31st, 2007 at the University of New Mexico - an event co-sponsored by the Women's Resource Center at UNM. Check our website for more details. Using this DVD-ROM, you can learn about credit card debt, payday loans, title loans, rent-to-own and the advertising of these industries. This DVD-ROM is designed for use in a classroom or with a community group to teach others about the connections between media, consumerism and predatory lending. Challenging the Debt Industry includes a 38-minute video documentary, over 60 media examples on credit cards, loans, consumerism, etc., educational resources such as lesson plans, graphs, a discussion guide for each video chapter and handouts. The video documentary, classroom resources, several media examples and DVD menus are also available in Spanish. Thanks to a grant from the New Mexico McCune Foundation, this resource is available for free to NM residents through June 30, 2007 and residents outside of New Mexico can purchase it online at www.nmmlp.org or by calling 505-828-3129.

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