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• Library News: NovelNY library consortia picks up Gannett Newstand Complete — it includes the Ithaca Journal

  
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  I am pleased to announce that, beginning July 1, 2013 NOVELNY will over statewide access to Gannett Newstand Complete (ProQuest).  This database: Contains over 85 Gannett newspapers, 6 of which are New York newspapers.  These include the Ithaca Journal, Poughkeepsie Journal, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, ...
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• Allure, Disney Remind Us We’re Not Thin Enough

  
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  Is it any wonder that in the United States approximately 20 million women suffer from an eating disorder at some time in their life? Or that “by age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape.” Up to sixty percent of elementary school girls are concerned about becoming too fat. ...
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• Beyond Merida: Toy Industry Complicity in Marketing Vapid Values

  
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  May 6, 2013 “How can we stop this?” and “What are they thinking?” are the two most common phrases coming out of children’s health and wellness circles right now, as fatigued advocates and parents in the trenches deal with the fallout of misguided toy industry decision-making that amounts to idiocy served on ...
  2 weeks ago

• EFF: Which companies help protect your data from the government?

  
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  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a chart of big media companies and  evaluates them to answer the question, “Which companies help protect your data from the government?”; take a look:   https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013    Interesting report. Filed under: Communications Management &Design ...
  3 weeks ago

• April 2013 Top Reads

  
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  Here are the top five blog posts for the past month on The Connected Classroom — have you read them?  They date from March and April of 2013: 1)  Guest Blog Post on the Upcoming 19th Annual CHARACTERplus National Character Education Conference 2)  Midwest Spotlight Educators needed for METC 2014 3)  This ...
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• The Pedagogy and Production of Media Literacy

  
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  Julie Smith during Media Literacy Week 2012 The Education Community Engagement Committee of GMLP is hosting the Gateway Media Literacy Partners Mini Conference: Pedagogy and Production at Cooperating School Districts on June 7 from 7:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. St. Louis educators Don Goble (Ladue School District) and ...
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• ‘Healthy divas & divos’ good for social media culture too

  
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  They’re “healthy divas,” not drama queens, people. Two very different things, the Wall Street Journal points out . The distinction and the reported emergence of this positive kind of diva in media culture might be a positive for kids who, when they have time for entertainment, lean toward the celebrity-watch ...
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• Screen Free Week April 29-May 5, 2013: Glee-fully Unplugged

  
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  April 29, 2013 As the clock ticks down for the Screen Free Week challenge to unplug, it’s been an interesting ‘sell’ to convince teen tribes even for “service learning points.” Gleaning parent participation in the heart of Silicon Valley? Even harder. In fact, it’s getting hilarious documenting some ...
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• the mermaid of brooklyn

  
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  In tv land, there are generally two roles for the thirty-something woman: the (sexy) childless career woman or the (sexy) mother of a (sexy) teenager, a decidedly more supporting role. Motherhood dominates a commercial landscape for everything from paper towels to snack food, toothpaste, and air fresheners, but ...
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• Testing Media Literacy

  
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  Last week I sent myself an email with this quote from Felix Salmon’s blog post about the media’s response to the Boston mayhem : There’s an art to working out where to find fast and reliable information, and to judging new information in light of old information, and to judging old information in light of new ...
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• NYT: Appeals court ruling favors Richard Prince in Copyright case

  
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  Closely watched fair use case that hinges on if an artist ‘transformed’ paintings of photographs has been decided: nyti.ms/YW2YCP — On The Media (@onthemedia) April 25, 2013 Filed under: Communications Management &Design , Culture and Communications , Emerging Media , Indymedia , InfoTech , ...
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• 5 Ways to Help Your Kids Use Social Media Responsibly

  
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  “For most teens, the Internet is a fundamental part of life,” according to Dana Udall-Weiner , Ph.D, a psychologist who specializes in media literacy. It’s how they communicate and interact. Teens use social media sites like Facebook for everything from casual talks to breakups, she said. With social media a ...
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• Not Quite Paperless

  
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  Media ecology scholars such as Marshall McLuhan spoke about how the electronic media environment brought about the end of the print era, and back in the sixties and seventies when McLuhan was sharing such observations there was a great deal of doubt, because television seemed to be co-existing relatively well with ...
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• Visual Literacy & the Common Core Standards

  
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  How can learning to “read” the visual images we see in news reports and advertisements result in critical thought and media literacy for our students, and how does this type of literacy relate to the Common Core State Standards? In this one day workshop on June 20, we will examine how technology has changed the ...
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