Resources for School Librarians - Index

Young People and the Digital World

Who are The Media?

• Children and Television - The effect of television on children. This site is by the University of Michigan Health System.
• The Federal Communications Commission - Government agency which regulates broadcasting in the US.
• The Television Bureau of Advertising - Lots of interesting facts here in the Research section of the site.
• Children Now - Studies of the content and effect of children's television programming.
• Study Links TV and Depression - Feb. 3, 2009. A study links the amount of time adolescents spend watching TV with increased risk of depression when they are adults. This report is from the Los Angeles Times.
• Children, Adolescents and Television - Paper from the National Academy of Pediatrics, February, 2001.
• The Merchants of Cool - Web site for the PBS Frontline show on the effect of popular culture on teenagers.
• The Impact of Television: A natural experiment in three communities - A study of the effect of television in 3 Canadian communities.

Teaching Media Literacy

• Teaching Media - Lesson plans by the Media Awareness Network.
• Media Studies Lesson Plans - From the New York Times.
• PBS Teacher Source - Media studies lesson plans.
• Fact CheckEd - Lesson plans for teaching media literacy.
• Media Literacy - Links to lesson plans. This site is by WebEnglish Teacher.
• I Read it on the Internet - Teaching About Web Literacy - From Education World.
• Lesson Plan Library - For all grades from the Center for Media Literacy.
• Ontario Media Literacy Homepage - Lesson plans for media literacy by an Ontario media literacy teacher.
• The Media Literacy Clearinghouse - This site for K-12 educators has an extensive collection to links to media web sites.
• The Media Literacy Review - Online articles about media literacy and collection of links to related sites.
• Teaching Media Through the Web - This is a companion web site for the book Teaching Media Through the Web. If you are interested in media and media literacy, you will find a large number of useful links here.

Youth, the Internet and Digital Media

• Web Site Evaluation
  • Critical Evaluation Information - From Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators.
  • California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge - One example of a phony web site.
• Internet Problems
  • Stop Cyberbullying Now - Information for parents and educators from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Stop Cyberbullying - This site has helpful information. It is by WiredKids.
  • Interactive Web Applications - The ALA wiki on social networking sites.
  • Kidsafe Search Sites - Information about safe sites and about child safety on the internet.
  • BBC Technology News - a good site to keep up with what is going on in the fight against spam and media piracy.
• Filtering of Web Sites
  • ALA's Web Site on the Children's Internet Protection Act
• Other Media and Internet Issues
  • Resource for Cyberculture Studies - Studies on the nature and use of the internet.

Copyright Issues

• The U.S. Copyright Office
• Copyright and Fair Use in Teaching - From the Center for Social Media.
• Copyright Kids - This site is designed to teach young people about copyright. By the Copyright Society of the USA.
• Copyright and Fair Use - Links to primary sources and web sites. From the Stanford University Library.
• An Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use - From Education World
• Plagiarism - An extensive list of web links compiled by Sharon Stoerger.
• Software Information Industry Association - Check out the anti-piracy section for information on software copyright.

Intellectual Freedom in America Today

• The American Civil Liberties Union
• ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
• The Center for Democracy and Technology - Information about the government and technology.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation - Group protecting digital rights.
• Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your School Library by Pat Scales, ALA, 2009. This book may be purchased from Amazon.com.

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