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• A Wealth of Resources! Courtesy of Me & The Nassau County Girl Scouts!

  
  Reign of the Girl Child: Good stuff for moms of teen and preteen girls — Authority:
  Its that time of year again. Back-to-back holidays are sucking us dry, kids are wrapping up fall sports and moving on to holiday parties and concerts, family is travelling in and out of town. Its a friggin circus around here!! So what better time to stress myself out even more by volunteering to once again be a ...
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• POPE BENEDICT AND THE NEW MEDIA (HE TOTALLY GETS IT)

  
  Hell Burns — Authority: 115
  Church must adapt to the way media are impacting culture, pope says By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- New media are not just instruments for communicating, but they are having a huge impact on culture -- on the way people interact and think, Pope Benedict XVI said."This constitutes a ...
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• The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 122
  Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful day young Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die suffering for six days tied to a ...
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• Regret, Resignation and News Literacy

  
  The LAMP — Authority: 117
  Sean Hannity I’m guessing most of you heard on the news this morning that CNN anchor Lou Dobbs resigned as of last night, after much controversy over his remarks about the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate .  Also last night, Sean Hannity apologized to viewers for splicing footage from two ...
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• Media Coverage of Fort Hood: Lets talk about it

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 130
  David Brooks Op-Ed in the NY Times states that Major Hasans Muslim identity was "played down"  because the media "didnt want the horror to become a pretext for anti-Muslim bigotry."  While I would dispute his assertion that Hasans Mulsim identity was "played down" (it did not seem played down at all to me), lets ...
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• Call for Manuscripts: Special issue of media literacy

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 130
  I am invited to edit a special issue of New Horizons in Education, and would like to invite you to submit your manuscript to me. Details see below please. Media Literacy
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• Re-visiting Perry preschool: The story behind the story

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 416
  study, which examined the lives of 123 African American children who were born in poverty. The study was the first of its kind to quantify the impact a high-quality preschool program had on the lives of children, and it is still widely quoted.Over the years, EarlyStories has heard countless references to the study, ...
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• Librarians: The Three Types I Still See

  
  Drape's Takes — Authority: 104
  One week later, and Ill admit: Im concerned. Scott McCleod has posted a list of ten incredibly important and equally complex questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools. Doug Johnson has begun to react to Scotts questions, by stepping back as a ( very good ) librarian himself and challenging his ...
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• Research Toolbox: New Journal on Emerging Media and Learning

  
  Center on Media and Child Health — Authority: 115
  Check out this new journal published by the MIT Press: The International Journal of Learning and Media focus on emerging forms of media and learning and provides an international forum for scholars, researchers and practitioners to explore the relationship between emerging forms of media and learning, in a variety ...
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• Humane Issues in the News...

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 128
  Each week we post links to news about humane education & humane living, and items connected to humane issues, from human rights to environmental preservation, to animal protection, to media, consumerism and culture. Study shows “even the most sophisticated” news readers “can be manipulated” - ...
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• The Decade in Seven Minutes

  
  History Tech — Authority: 123
  Newsweek has put together a quick seven minute video recapping the last ten years. Interesting not just for what it includes but what it leaves out. What would you add or subtract? What about your students? Posted in current events, history, media literacy, news, primary sources, social studies, ...
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• Twitter Lists for Parents: Find Great Parenting Resources -- and Other Parents -- on Twitter

  
  The Mother of All Parenting Blogs — Authority: 453
  Parenting Grapevine Twitter recently introduced Twitter lists – a fun new feature that allows you to create lists of people or organizations you follow. Naturally, people on Twitter, who tend to be a rather obsessive bunch, are going a little crazy with the new feature. The net result? Theres a fabulous new ...
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• The Hazards of Meat-Eating Hit the Mainstream Media

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 128
  I’ve been vegan for twenty years. As I learned about the plight of animals in modern agriculture from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation , John Robbins’ Diet for a New America and numerous undercover films that showed the conditions under which the great majority of animals are raised for food, I knew I ...
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• The Hazards of Meat-Eating Hit the Mainstream Media

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 418
  I’ve been vegan for twenty years. As I learned about the plight of animals in modern agriculture from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation , John Robbins’ Diet for a New America and numerous undercover films that showed the conditions under which the great majority of animals are raised for food, I knew I ...
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• Enhance Your Teaching (or Parenting) With Our New Childrens Literature Resource Section

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 128
  Bring a new element to your teaching (or parenting): check out our new Childrens Literature section in our websites Resource Center , highlighting more than 100 suggested titles that you can use in your humane education work (as an educator or parent). Weve divided the titles into broad categories (such as Animal ...
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• gr8 lol ~ Great Libraries of Learning

  
  HeyJude — Authority: 408
  Support for school libraries in Far North Queensland is gr8!  The team at the Far North Queensland FNQ Learning Development Centre – ICT , have put together a fabulous brochure promoting change and essential development to ensure quality school libraries.  They have allowed me to embed the document here, so that ...
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• Copyright Advisory Network Offers Copyright Clarity

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 596
  The Copyright Advisory Network offers four resources that will be of particular interest to librarians and teachers. The Fair Use Evaluator helps you make a fair use determination. Exceptions for Educators provides a step-by-step guide to determining if you can use copyrighted materials in your instruction under ...
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• Who’s making video clips? Not me…but does it matter anymore?

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 123
  ‘m usually happy and eager to explain my work to anyone who asks. I keep cool when people mix up technicalities related to film and video – after all, I don’t know the finer points in other professions and industries. One thing I’m now tired of hearing is the wide-spread misuse of the term ‘video [...]
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• School libraries: Vital filter developers

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 494
  Actually, the library is both a filter and a developer of the most effective filter there is: the software between students ears (as my ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid first put it years ago). Its a great filter as schools nerve center of media competency and literacy (hopefully including new media as well as ...
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• Media Literacy Week highlights online smarts - The Epoch Times

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 137
  Media Literacy Week highlights online smartsThe Epoch TimesA child poses next to her Webkinz plush pets and a computer screen displaying the popular Webkinz website, which features games, trading cards, news, … Related External Links Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen « Xenophilia (True ...
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