Media Literacy for Prevention is a new five-lesson unit, educational DVD-ROM that explores the topic of tobacco, alcohol, and food marketing through movie clips, news articles, website information, and magazine ads.
Learners will expand their understanding of media literacy by examining fantasy and reality, target audiences, untold stories, and other deconstruction questions.
The presentation format on this DVD-ROM allows instructors to discuss various aspects of media and marketing using a printable discussion guide with questions, answers, and suggestions for each day of the presentation, as well as student activities, education standards, and resources.
This DVD-ROM contains 50 media examples.
The New Mexico Media Literacy Project developed the DVD-ROM to support related program work funded by NMDOH-TUPAC.
Media & Bullying is an educational DVD-ROM that explores the topic of youth-related bullying through movie clips, news articles, website information, and magazine ads. Learners will expand their understanding of media literacy by examining fantasy and reality, target audiences, untold stories, and other deconstruction questions.
The presentation format on the DVD-ROM allows instructors to discuss various aspects of real-life bullying using questions and answers related to the media examples.
This interactive DVD-ROM contains 17 selected media examples.
Media & Body Image is a multimedia educational resource on media literacy and body image. It can help improve your ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media messages, and to become an active participant in our media culture.
This interactive DVD-ROM contains 38 selected media examples -- video and audio clips and images -- accessed through a menu system. The media examples include television commercials, magazine ads, and excerpts from TV shows. Optional SDH subtitles can be played with all audio and video clips.
CHALLENGING THE DEBT INDUSTRY IN A TOUGH ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
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As the country deals with financial crisis, there is an abundance of information available on all aspects of the economy. Challenging the Debt Industry focuses on the cycle of debt many people get caught up in and looks critically at how to deconstruct media messages that tell us to use credit and short-term loans to buy almost anything, including happiness.
Challenging the Debt Industry combines media literacy with financial education. Using this DVD-ROM, you can learn about credit card debt, payday loans, title loans, and the rent-to-own industry. This resource aims to teach others about the connections between media, consumerism, and predatory lending.
The DVD menus, video documentary, classroom resources, and several media examples are also presented in Spanish. Please visit the New Mexico Media Literacy Project website for more information.
NMMLP is also available to provide presentations on financial literacy and marketing in the recession. Please e-mail us at nmmlp@nmmlp.org for more information.
UPDATE ON MEDIA LITERACY AND COMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS BILLS
Exciting events are happening at the New Mexico legislature! On March 3, the House of Representatives unanimously passed House Bill 342 the “media literacy in schools” bill after changing some of the language. HB 342 now moves to the Senate, where Senator Howie Morales of Silver City is the bill’s sponsor.
After a revision, House Bill 675 the “community access to media and information” act was passed in the Health and Government Affairs Committee chaired by Mimi Stewart (D-Bernalillo).
While this software helps to prevent media piracy, NMMLP argues that the law unfairly restricts the production and use of effective media literacy curriculum materials. By its very nature, media literacy education requires that learners see and hear a wide variety of media examples, including clips from movies and TV shows distributed on DVD.
More information, including NMMLP’s comment, is available here.
MEDIA ARTS COLLABORATIVE CHARTER SCHOOL OFFERS PUBLIC VISIT
The Media Arts Collaborative Charter School in Albuquerque, NM is hosting a public visit on March 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm. MACCS is located at 4401 Central Ave. NE – BLDG #2 (behind Bank of America).
MACCS was created by a group of visionaries who share a passion for the media arts and offers local students classes in film, television, audio, graphics, animation, web, journalism, screenwriting, photography, and more!
NMMLP is working with other Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) member organizations across the country on DTV outreach and on a No Cost Box campaign. As part of this campaign, NMMLP is collecting DTV converter box coupons and ordering $40 digital converter boxes with analog pass-through from www.freetvsignal.com. The DTV converter boxes will be delivered to folks in New Mexico in NMMLP's DTV Converter Box Raffle. Current studies have revealed that New Mexico is the least prepared state for the digital TV transition.
Mail extra DTV converter box coupons to: NMMLP, 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109.
EVENT CALENDAR
New Mexico Media Literacy Project may be visiting you soon! Please contact us if you would like a presentation in your community. Our upcoming plans include:
March:
16-17, Santa Fe, NM: Media Literacy for Prevention Training
24, Boston, MA: Fenway Community Health
26-29, Cambridge, MA: Women, Action & The Media Conference
27, Blanding, UT: San Juan School District
April:
15-16, Albuquerque, NM: Head to Toe Conference
16, Clallam County, WA: Prevention Training
23, Mountainair, NM: Mountainair Schools
23, Tucumcari, NM: Tucumcari Middle School
27, Clayton, NM: Clayton Middle School
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