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Thinking Clearly?  Parenting Class can help Thinking Clearly? Parenting Class can help

Renaud Spirit Center, O’Fallon, Missouri is the site for a class designed to help parents develop their thinking skills with regard to parenting... 

KETC Offers Free Digital Storytelling Classes KETC Offers Free Digital Storytelling Classes

Join KETC/Channel 9 for classes in digital storytelling!  Participants will learn the basics of digital video editing and create short stories using... 

‘Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law’, Feb. 10th in St. Charles ‘Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law’, Feb. 10th in St. Charles

Learn how your Facebook and MySpace pages can come back to haunt you! C. L. Lindsay, author, lawyer, nationally recognized expert and leader in the... 

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Don Corrigan,The Webster-Kirkwood Times Editor, Featured in NPR Piece Don Corrigan,The Webster-Kirkwood Times Editor, Featured in NPR Piece

GMLP member Don Corrigan recounts for NPR’s On The Media, what it was like to cover the Kirkwood courthouse shooting–a story... 

President’s Message: Wake-Up Call is Mandate for Media Literacy Education President’s Message: Wake-Up Call is Mandate for Media Literacy Education

Hello, Media Literacy Proponents and Enthusiasts, Welcome to 2010 and to GMLP’s re-launched web site. We hope you visit our web site... 

GMLP’s New Web Site–Welcome! GMLP’s New Web Site–Welcome!

If it’s been a while since you’ve visited, things look a little different around here.  Over the last month and a half, GMLP’s... 

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GMLP Bloggers Corner and Featured Articles

President Obama’s State of the Union-A Wordle President Obama’s State of the Union-A Wordle

Sometimes, the best way to analyze is to simply count the words… Check out this Wordle I created from the President’s State of the Union address tonight using www.wordle.net.  Click the photo above and it will take you to a page with the full size Wordle.  Read More →

Parent Perspective: A Mother’s Longing for Squeaky Clean Fun Parent Perspective: A Mother’s Longing for Squeaky Clean Fun

My husband and I discovered early on in our tenure as parents that our kids were very sensitive to visual imagery and loud sounds.  This made trips to the movie theater practically non-existent and only possible with the guidance of the outstandingly detailed reviews posted at http://www.commonsensemedia.org– a real sanity saver for parents with kids like mine. Last summer, the kids and I decided to try Alvin & the Chipmunks and we set... [Read more]

The Medium is The Masses: 3D’s Reprise The Medium is The Masses: 3D’s Reprise

Since its inception in the late 19th century, the motion picture has successfully adapted to the technological and artistic innovations brought forth by the medium’s most skilled masters.  The first films produced by both Thomas Edison and The Lumiere Brothers were static, with no camera movement whatsoever.  But through advances in technology, the camera was no longer relegated to being stationary and thus more sophisticated cinematography and... [Read more]

Growing Up WIRED Growing Up WIRED

“The sheer amount of time young people spend using media–an average of nearly 6 1/2 hours a day–makes it plain that the potential of media to impact virtually every aspect of young people’s lives cannot be ignored.” Kaiser Family Foundation ARE KIDS TODAY GROWING UP WIRED? My name is Mary Pat Gallagher and I am the mother of five fully-WIRED adults (ages 31-23) and the “Lolly” of three yet-to-be WIRED grandchildren.... [Read more]

Twitter As Newspeak Twitter As Newspeak

It can be argued that Twitter has emerged as a legitimate form of communication that could influence how children will spell–and think–in the future. Both Fox News and CNN have adopted the form and syntax of Twitter for their closed-captions, so that Twitter is no longer merely a computer shorthand but has become an integral facet of our mainstream media. To illustrate: On September 11, 2001, Fox News carried a story about President Bush’s... [Read more]

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