Media Literacy Required in Illinois Public High Schools
One week ago Illinois Governor Pritzker signed HB 234 into law. The bill reads “beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, every public...
Blogging Blues
I am in awe of writers who managed to be productive last year (shout out to Doug Belshaw, Audrey Watters, and Ian O'Byrne - some of my...
Never too Late for a Year in Review (and a 2020 sneak peek)?
I know I’m late to the ‘year in review’ party. But hopefully February isn’t too tardy for a 2019 roundup and you’ll read on.
NAMLE goes to Washington
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) held its biennial conference in Washington, D.C. last month. The location...
18th Annual Information Literacy Summit in Illinois
Earlier this month, we attended the 18th Annual Information Literacy Summit at Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC) in Palos Hills,...
Critical perspectives from sunny Savannah
We recently attended the 7th Annual International Critical Media Literacy conference in Savannah, Georgia. A small, but powerful event...
The Challenges of Collaboration
It’s been some time since we’ve had the space to write a blog post together. Work, publication deadlines, sabbaticals, and new jobs are...
#DigitalLiteracyGoals
*This blog post was first published on the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy website. Thanks to Amanda Murphy, Michelle Ciccone, Kara...
No Silos - Networks & Accessibility*
We recently had the opportunity to meet (via Zoom) Thomas Mackey and Trudi Jacobson to discuss their influential metaliteracy concept. We...
No Silos - National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) Conference Reflection
The biennial NAMLE conference was held last month in Chicago. As this was our first NAMLE conference (#NAMLE2017), we were excited, and...