Caralyn Michelle Dienstman

2018 Summer Programs in Media Literacy

2018 Summer Programs in Media Literacy

2018: Study Abroad in Rome, Italy Summer 2018  May 16 - June 29, 2018   Overview: Temple University Rome's six-week summer session is comprised of undergraduate courses in a variety of disciplines. These disciplines include: anthropology, art, art history,...

Episode 15: Fan Fiction

Episode 15: Fan Fiction

https://vimeo.com/126918127 Creating fan fiction is the ultimate homage to a story or characters that have had an effect on you. And this art form is growing. If you’re not creating fan fiction yourself, you might think these uber-fans are odd folks, sitting in their...

Project Look Sharp summer institute

Project Look Sharp summer institute

New York July 20th - July 24th 2015 Overview: This is an intensive, week-long media literacy course for teachers, support staff, college faculty, and other professionals working with students in an educational setting. Participants receive training in the theory and...

University of Rhode Island: Summer Program

University of Rhode Island: Summer Program

University of Rhode Island Rhode Island July 23 - July 28, 2017  Overview: This six-day institute focuses on how literacy is changing as a result of emerging media and technologies. This program focuses on the implications of this cultural and technological shift for...

Culver presents at Teaching with Technology Symposium

Culver presents at Teaching with Technology Symposium

For her second year in a row Sherri Hope Culver will be speaking at Temple University's Teaching with Technology Symposium at the Howard Gittis Student Center on March 20, 2015. The Symposium is targeted to faculty, instructional technologists, and other staff at...

Episode 14: Gamification

Episode 14: Gamification

https://vimeo.com/121791514 Video games have moved from being categorized as simply a recreational activity, to include a wide range of creative, often educational and often money-making media platform. Gamification, the term for this movement, has deep implications...

Episode 13: Media & Representation of Space

Episode 13: Media & Representation of Space

https://vimeo.com/121504349 Over the past few years it seems we have seen a burst in films about space exploration, often including a plot involving the destruction of our planet and our need to get somewhere else fast. (Gravity. The End of the World. World War Z. and...

Episode 12: Libraries In The 21st Century

Episode 12: Libraries In The 21st Century

https://vimeo.com/119975128 When was the last time you visited the library to borrow a book? The idea of a “free” library seems sort of quaint and old-fashioned in an era when most of us feel like we can find any information we want by typing g-o-o-g-l-e on our...

NYT Article: Can Students Have Too Much Tech?

Can Students Have Too Much Tech? Article By: SUSAN PINKER PRESIDENT OBAMA’s domestic agenda, which he announced in his State of the Union address this month, has a lot to like: health care, maternity leave, affordable college. But there was one thing he got wrong. As...

Second International Children’s Film Festival

Second International Children’s Film Festival

The CMIL took another trip around the world for our second International Children's Film Festival. We brought the Temple and Philadelphia communities together to screen a series of short films by young filmmakers from around the globe.  The films showcased were...

International Media Literacy Week

International Media Literacy Week

  (Courtesy of https://www.medialiteracyweek.ca/) The seventh annual  International Media Literacy Week  will be held this year from the 4th to the 8th of November. The event originated in Canada and is now celebrated internationally, intending to promote media...

London: A Global View Of Children’s Media

London: A Global View Of Children’s Media

Summer program in London: June 29-July 17, 2014                  • Spend 3 weeks studying in London • Earn 4 credits in Media Studies and Production (MSP 4890) • Attend the Children Media Conference filled with media sessions, events and meetings...

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Seeking proposals for articles to be published in the 2014 Yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The Yearbook is a project of the UNESCO University Twining and Networking Programme (UNITWIN) and the UN Alliance of Civilizations. The...

Media Inside Out discusses the impact of news editing

This episode of Media Inside Out discusses the impact of news editing with Executive Producer of Temple Update, Peter Jeroff, Producer of Temple Update and Temple Student, Isabel Garcia, Executive Producer NBC10 11pm News, Johnny Greene and host/producer Sherri Hope...