The New Mexico Media Literacy Project is happy to announce new reduced pricing for all multimedia and video resources!

Other changes include the elimination of “New Mexico” and “University/College” pricing to create a single reduced price point for all customers. We hope the new, simplified price structure will serve you better.

NMMLP is committed to producing new resources that reflect current concerns and issues. We are discontinuing older resources to provide you with the most up-to-date and useful products. Watch for new resources that provide media literacy tools for your classrooms and communities.

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Since its inception in 1997, New Mexico Media Literacy Project has hosted the Bad Ad Contest and every year entries from middle and high school students have poured in from across the United States and other countries.

This contest provides an opportunity for young people to express their thoughts about the advertisements they see as “bad” and to provide insights by using the tools of media literacy to deconstruct those “bad ads.”

The winning entries in the middle and high school divisions will be featured in NMMLP’s popular Monthly Deconstruction section. This year Julia Reeve from Nancy Sullivan’s class at Atlanta Girls School in Atlanta, GA was the high school winner. Alex Chiarella and Brendan Wilson – both students of Todd Wilson at Seabury Hall School in Makawao, HI – shared the middle school honors. Visit the NMMLP website to see the complete list of winners and runners-up, as well as a chance to read the winning entries and view the winning ads.

Check back on our website in August or September for details on how to enter the 2008-09 Bad Contest.

New Mexico Media Literacy Project is now accepting applications for the 2008 Catalyst Institute to be held July 22-25, on the beautiful campus of Albuquerque Academy.

Each Catalyst Institute is limited to 30 attendees. NMMLP offers a limited number of scholarship opportunities.

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 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 download the online registration form. If you need more information on how to register, please e-mail or call us at 505-828-3129.

Prometheus Radio Project, working closely with Media Access Project, Common Frequency and students from Penn State, University of Colorado, University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University, have released a set of comments and report designed to move the debate forward on the future of LPFM. New Mexico Media Literacy Project has endorsed these comments.

In these comments, low power advocates praised the Federal Communications Commission for actions that they took last fall to protect low power stations from encroachment, and recommended several measures that would further protect stations. These measures included requiring that if a low power station was displaced by a full power station, that the full power licensee pay full reasonable costs incurred by the LPFM. It was also recommended that displacements not be allowed to occur unless a channel of equal coverage and quality was found for the LPFM station. Full power licensees had put in several petitions against the FCC's new policies on encroachment, and much of the comment was devoted to disproving their arguments. 

To read more, please visit Prometheus Radio Project.