Resources+for+your+Work

**Russell Byers Charter School**
Research on RBCS children, looking at media use behaviors, developed as a collaborative project for BTMM 8771 Mass Media and Children, spring 2008 semester.



Research on RBCS children, looking at media use behaviors, academic achievement and precursor components of ML competence.

RBCS Work in Progress: An attempt to see if children's conceptualization of author and purpose could be measured using a modified Q-sort technique. Unfinished draft: do not distribute or quote.



**Teaching about Online Social Media**: Greg Fox and Sam Reed
MEDIA LITERACY DAY, MAY 7. We will be hosting about 80 Phoenixville MS students for "Media Literacy Day at Temple University" on **Friday, May 7.** Students will come to campus for a ML learning experience and campus tour. Let me know if you would like to volunteer to offer a presentation or lead a workshop for a small group of students.

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Also see: Digital Nation [|Online Learning Activities]

**Benjamin Rush Arts Academy**

 * I am visiting the school on Thursday, March 11 from 10 - 1. If anyone would like to join me, please email me.**

Benjamin Hesse: 10th grade history teacher who offers the News Hour news literacy production project
 * Email: brhesse@hotmail.com

Sample of student videos produced by Hesse's students on the topic of dogfighting, Sonia Sotomayor and Brown v Board of Education, Fall 2009** http://dl.dropbox.com/u/ 4346852/RushArts% 20Dogfighting%202.mov http://dl.dropbox.com/u/ 4346852/RushArts% 20Dogfighting.mov http://dl.dropbox.com/u/ 4346852/RushArts%20Sotomayor. mov http://dl.dropbox.com/u/ 4346852/RushArts%20Brown%20vs% 20Board%20Ed.mov