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NCTE Commission on Media member Jeff Share has alerted me to the publication of his new book: Media Literacy is Elementary Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media (Peter Lang, 2009) Knowing Jeff and his work, I know this text will be a welcome addition to any higher ed course or K-12 library professional collection. Details about this book (and others) are listed on my holiday media literacy book recommendations page

If you watched Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK,” and came away with the belief that everybody did it, you also unintentionally stumbled into a debate about the responsibilities of filmmakers dealing with historical subject matter. “JFK” still stands as the most notorious example of how Hollywood sometimes takes facts, puts them in a blender, then serves the resulting smoothie to often unsuspecting moviegoers. Of course, this phenomenon is hardly an issue to those who do not go to the cinema for a history lesson. There are plenty of folks who read and seek their history from historians. They can differentiate between what is presented as an objective account of real events and what is offered as entertainment. Details in this MSNBC news story.

NCTE Commission on Media member Jeff Share announces the publication of his new book: Media Literacy Is Elementary--Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media. The publihser is Peter Lang. This looks like an excellent text and is recommended for both higher education courses as well as K-12 school library professional collections.

NCTE Commission on Media member Jeff Share announces the publication of his new book: Media Literacy Is Elementary--Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media. The publihser is Peter Lang. This looks like an excellent text and is recommended for both higher education courses as well as K-12 school library professional collections.