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If you like medialiteracytoolbox.com, you’ll love the DVD-ROM!
Media Literacy Toolbox is a complete introduction to media literacy concepts, skills, and applications. It can help you improve your ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media messages of all kinds, and to become an active participant in our media culture.
Media Literacy Toolbox is not a movie on a disc. It’s an interactive DVD-ROM containing over a hundred selected media examples and printable resources. While it can be used for individual study, Media Literacy Toolbox has been designed to be used in classrooms, community groups, and other group settings.
The DVD-ROM contains over 100 selected media examples -- video and audio clips, images, and documents – accessed through a menu system. The media examples include television commercials, magazine ads, excerpts from TV and radio shows, newspaper and magazine articles, and other media messages. The disc also includes over 200 pages of printable activity and discussion guides you can use to lead a conversation about the media examples on the disc.
The DVD-ROM can be used in any DVD player connected to a TV or video projector, or in a computer with a DVD-ROM drive.
SDH subtitles can be displayed with all audio and video clips.
All of the activity guides, discussion guides and articles are available in Standard and Large Print versions.
Media Literacy Toolbox is produced by the New Mexico Media Literacy Project.
$99
To order:
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medialiteracytoolbox.com offers several media literacy kits you can download for free.
Media Literacy Concepts & Skills
This kit covers the basics, like media literacy concepts, the language of persuasion, and how to deconstruct a media message. If you’re new to media literacy, start here! The kit consists of five printable documents (PDF format). No media examples are included.
> Preview this kit
Language of Persuasion: Intro
This kit introduces the “language of persuasion” – a key media literacy concept. It includes a few media examples illustrating common persuasion techniques.
> Preview this kit
If you like this kit, be sure to look at:
> Language of Persuasion: Basic
Food Marketing & Nutrition
This kit examines media messages about food. It’s designed for beginners, and includes four media examples and a printable discussion guide. It uses the same format as the kits we offer for sale, so if you’re undecided about a purchase, check out this kit.
> Preview this kit
Media Activism
It's easy to feel helpless or cynical in a media environment dominated by a few powerful corporations churning out messages telling us who we are, what we should think, and what we should buy. Media activism can be an antidote and a next step for media literate individuals and communities. This kit includes suggestions for action and three media examples illustrating media activist victories.
> Preview this kit |
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The New Mexico Media Literacy Project has launched a new website to distribute teaching resources on media literacy.
www.medialiteracytoolbox.com is designed to be a resource for educators, media activists, media makers, parents, students and others.
It allows users to browse, purchase and download “media literacy kits” on a variety of topics. The kits contain:
Media examples (TV commercials, magazine ads, scenes from Hollywood movies, websites, etc.) you can show to your class or group.
A printable discussion and activity guide with questions and answers for each media example, as well as background information, education standards, and resources for further study.
Suggestions on how to use media literacy kits with students, community groups and others.
Complete instructions and tech support information.
medialiteracytoolbox.com is produced by the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, one of the largest and most successful media literacy organizations in the United States. NMMLP's mission is to cultivate critical thinking and activism in our media culture to build healthy and just communities. |
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For more media literacy resources, presentations and training, visit the
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