Webinars

In 2010, NML partnered with New Hampshire's Department of Education to facilitate a year-long professional development initiative using the new media literacies as a springboard for developing innovative curriculum. Our goal was to help foster a broader perspective of what it means to be media literate in the digital age, and offer tools for translating the social skills and cultural competencies NML proposes in its white paper into meaningful and engaging learning experiences in the classroom and beyond.

The participating educators explored the urgent challenges that 21st Century learners face by expanding their own learning experiences using a participatory, digital model of professional development. In this context, they were able to practice their own skills as teachers by creating, collaborating, connecting, and circulating with one another in an interactive, multi-media environment. Not only did they develop new materials for their own schools and districts, but also helped shape an 8-part webinar series focused on a comprehensive, practical understanding of the NML skills for the larger educational community.

Each of the webinars closely examined new curricular materials which have emerged from New Media Literacies and other projects which seek to introduce these skills into contemporary educational practices. Participants left with plenty of opportunities to take the material, information and methods back into their classroom. Click on the archives link above to see for yourself!