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Media Literacy Week 2007


As a result of the on-going as well as numerous blossoming media literacy education efforts under way in our bi-state region, the Alliance For A Media Literate America (AMLA–now, NAMLE) chose St. Louis to be the site of its Fourth biennial National Media Education Conference for which Gateway Media Literacy Partners (GMLP) was the local host-committee, June 23-26, 2007 at the Millennium Hotel, downtown St. Louis.

2007 Event Highlights:


  • Alliance For A Media Literate America’s (AMLA’s) fourth biennial National Media Education Conference (NMEC). GMLP, local NMEC host,  presents GMLP’s Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Award to Charles and Rose Klotzer, St. Louis Journalism Review,  Missouri Room, Millennium Hotel, downtown St. Louis.


  • The Missouri Governor, Missouri Senate and City of St. Louis welcome AMLA’s NMEC and proclaim Media Literacy Education Week, Missouri Room, Millennium Hotel.


  • Contemporary Art Museum- Community Media Arts Program “Neighborhoods in Focus…Aaron Aubushon and Katherine Adamchick “show and tell” regarding  the basics of visual literacy and video production, and how they get communities involved in  media, telling their stories, and ultimately becoming critical media consumers.


  • AMLA’s  National Media Education Conference presents a YOUTH MEDIA SALON : Free and Open to the Public.   Missouri Room, Millennium Hotel, Downtown An Opportunity for Teens to Chat About Today’s Media, featuring hip-hop experts and educators, MK Stallings and Angie Beatty.


  • KWMU 90.7 – Saint Louis on the Air’s host, Don Marsh, discusses politics and the media with filmmaker Frank Popper and State Senator Jeff Smith.


  • Film,  “Network,” as part of  the Webster University Film Series, followed by a media literacy panel, Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University; Panelists:  Professors Kathy Corley and Art Silverblatt, Webster University, along with  Don Marsh, St. Louis on the Air, and Laurie Waters, KMOV, discuss how the film made such an impact.


  • In Illinois…Leu Civic Center, Inc. hosts an evening a media literacy education evening at the Mascoutah Public Library.  Premieres newly-produced documentary on Media Literacy education, at the Mascoutah Public Library.  Leu Civic center, Inc., a United Way Agency that serves the community’s children, hosts a Media Literacy Education Week event featuring the Connect With Kids Network’s  recently-produced documentary on media literacy. Illinois Tom Atwood, producer of the documentary introduces the work, and SIUE’s Mass Communications Dept. Chair., Patrick Murphy, leads media literacy discussion, afterward.


  • Blogging Panel, “Why Blog?,” Lindenwood University, Spellman Center Leadership Room.  Info and advice from top St. Louis-area bloggers and web experts.  Moderator: Kammie Kobyleski - Lindenwood Univ. Asst.Professor (www.passionmeetspurpose.com); Jill Hampton – Web Producer, KTVI (myFOXstl.com); Dana Loesch – (www.mamalogues.com) – Mamalogues in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Benjamin Vierck – (www.stlbloggers.com) and (www.bloghorn.com); Steve Patterson of (www.urbanreviewstl.com)


  • Ron Carr and the Sounds of St. Louis @ The Westport Playhouse – In celebration of a week of stimulating media literacy activities, the audience enjoys an evening of fantastic music created by renown St. Louis musicians.


  • Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life, Washington University in St. Louis’ Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum,  Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts ….a media literacy view of environmental activism through the eyes of the celebrated and one of the world’s foremost landscape photographers. The works included in Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life — many of which are virtually unknown — showcase the clean, lush vitality of the ocean, mountain streams, and lakes, which are shown alongside contrasting arid terrain. In this exhibition, by focusing on water and its role as one of our greatest natural forces, the works underscore the importance of the environment to Adams’s work, as well as the ways in which his photographs raise awareness of environmental issues such as water scarcity still today.