Maybe it’s my history working with public television or my strong feeling that all kids need access to quality educational media content, but the article "There Goes the Neighborhood: The Story Behind the New Sesame Street and its Journey to HBO" just makes me sad....
I am writing this just a few hours after the conclusion of the News Literacy Summit held this past Sunday and Monday in Chicago. I am grateful to the McCormick Foundation for bringing together an impressive group of people passionate about news literacy. I appreciated...
There's an energy that comes from a place filled with media and the arts and young people that I never tire of. The Nerve Centre is one of the official "creative learning centers" supported by Northern Ireland Screen. After meeting with Bernard McCloskey at NI...
I had the pleasure of visiting Belfast this past week and met with Bernard McCloskey, Head of Education for Northern Ireland Screen. (Thank you Martina Chapman!) Bernard shared a bit about the work being done in NI to help teachers integrate media into their...
Catch up on the sessions, the workshops and the people from the Children's Media Conference held in Sheffield, England from July 2-4, 2014. Read the blog posts from Sherri and her students and their experiences attending the conference this year. Sherri will be...
(Sherri Hope Culver) The best conferences always leave one exhausted!; filled to the brim with new ideas, new contacts, new perspectives. And yes, that's exactly how I feel after having attended my first Children's Media Conference in Sheffield, England for the past...
First session on the first full day of the Children's Media Conference I attended a session titled "Coming together or falling apart?" The session included executives from several UK children's media companies, including Nickelodeon UK, Nosy Crow, HIT Entertainment,...
Yesterday we attended our first workshop at the Children's Media Conference. Many thanks to conference chair, Greg Childs, for inviting Temple University students to take part in this session. The session is usually reserved for the students (mainly from Sheffield...
In just a couple days my students will arrive in London to take the course "Global Children's Media". We'll be attending the Children's Media Conference in Sheffield, England for several days and then return to London for the rest of the course. This will be my first...
The Center for Media and Information Literacy was established in 2011 at Temple University as a hub for research, outreach, education, and professional development on issues involving media literacy and information literacy locally, nationally, and internationally....
CMIL's David Cooper Moore will lead a workshop on Thursday, January 31, 6:00 P.M. at Moore College in Philadelphia. The workshop synthesizes four years of experience doing media literacy workshops with elementary school students and educators. How do we make...
Catch Sherri on WHYY's NewsWorks tonight @ 6pm when she'll be talking with host, Dave Heller about the impact of commercial marketing on kids during this holiday season. Parents looking for a few tips to help handle the massive commercials and subsequent "nag factor"...
CMIL Director Sherri Hope Culver and Program Director David Cooper Moore will begin a six-month workshop series with the New Media Technology Charter School (NMTCS) in Philadelphia: The Media Literacy Circle. This continuing professional development program comprises...
This past week new CMIL members Julie Zegler and Shilpa Soundararajan, undergraduates in Temple's School of Media and Communication, began their work facilitating an exciting project at the Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School. This is the second year...
Sherri recently completed a series of invited lectures for the UNINETTUNO University in Rome, Italy. The university provides lectures from professors around the globe in an formally accredited institution of higher education online. It is the only university of its...