Welcome to the Teaching Media Literacy wiki site

This site provides resources and teaching activities organized according to the categories in the right sidebar related to teaching media literacy. These categories include studying film and television; viewing and producing videos; critical analysis of media representations; critical analysis of advertising, music, news, and ownership; studying media audiences; and methods and activities for teaching media literacy.

It also contains additional, updated information for use with the older website for the book, Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Guide to Links and Activities (Teachers College Press).

To add activities or units:

• Go to a certain relevant chapter, and click on Activities and Units. Then, click on Edit.
• On the right side, you’re see Images and Files. Click on that to upload a file.
• Once the file is uploaded, click on where you want the file to be stored on the Activities and Units page.
• Click on the file link over on the right and the file link will appear on the page. Then, down at the bottom, click on Save.
• You can also email materials to Richard at rbeach@umn.edu