Resources for School Librarians - Index

Young People and the Digital World

Who are The Media?

• The Federal Communications Commission - Government agency which regulates broadcasting in the US.
• Media Matters - Current media news from the Alliance for a Media Literate America.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• The Center for Media Literacy - Lesson plans and articles about 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.
• 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.
• The Center for Screen-Time Awareness - Promoting TV Turnoff week and other activities to help people break the TV habit.

Youth, the Internet and Digital Media

• Social Networking
  • Interactive Web Applications - The ALA wiki on social networking sites.
• Bookless Libraries
  • The College Library of Tomorrow - an article by Stephanie Olsen in ZD Net News, August 3, 2005 about bookless digital libraries.
  • Students Just Say "no" to Library books and Librarians Listen: Stacks are Going Digital - This is an article by Rachel Deahl in the Book Standard, Sept. 7, 2005. It discusses the removal of books from the University of Texas Library at Austin.
• 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.
• SPAM
  • Spam Threatens Revenue, Kids - 47% of children between the ages of 7 and 18 have received spam for x-rated sites, and 21% report reading their spam e-mail. Twenty-two percent say that their parents have never discussed spam with them. Study by Symantec in June of 2003.
  • 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.
  • Data Smog: Newest Culprit in Brain Drain - Article about the problem of information overload from the APA Monitor, 1998.

Copyright Issues

• The U.S. Copyright Office
• Copyright Kids - This site is designed to teach young people about copyright. By the Copyright Society of the USA.
• Copyright for Educators - Links to copyright sites from the Internet School Library Media Center.
• 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.
• Ask John Ashcroft - Cartoon about Ashcroft and librarians. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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