Media Literacy Website

You might all be aware of this site already but I used in lessons this last year and the students loved it. The section "advertising tricks" was my favorite and the students loved the commercials in the "what's in an ad?" section. The Levi's one in particular really caught their attention. Have fun exploring.
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

iSummit Conference in Memphis

I just returned from a great conference called iSummit in Memphis. It is sponsored by Apple. There is a chance that Edith Bowen will host this conference in 2011. Enjoy the Smilebox presentation of Memphis.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Media Literacy Lesson Plan

Annick Press publishes some fun non-fiction books. They also have lesson plans that go with some of the books. One really good one is for the book "Made You Look: How Advertising Works"

http://www.annickpress.com/madeyoulook/activities.htm

Common Sense Media Literacy Site

Check out this site:

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

There are lesson plans and review sections.

Media Literacy and Girls

I just heard of about an ad-free magazine for girls called "New Moon: The Magazine For Girls and Their Dreams".   The magazine targets media stereotyping and other issues for girls.  You can sign up for an e-newsletter.  Does anyone out there know any more about this magazine?  You can see the web page for this magazine at www.newmoongirls.com

It Was Only A Matter of Time

Oprah has announced that she is now doing for children's literature what she has done for adult reading. Check out her children's literature picks.

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahsbookclub/kidsreadinglist/pkgkidsreadinglist/20080701_orig_kids_books

If you are planning to do an Olympic unit on China, there is a very nice book about the Forbidden City and the ancient emperors called "Elephants and Golden Thrones" by Trish Marx. It has beautiful pictures and has many interesting facts about this amazing place. However, you might get asked what a eunuch is.

Library Brochure

Take a look at the brochure I made for the Moore Library. It was pretty easy. I just used the template from Word Office. You may want to make one for your library.

file:///Users/vaughnlarson/Desktop/Moore%20Library%20Brochure%20pdf.pdf