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Media Literacy Education since 1997

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How Do Our Own Biases Affect our Media Literacy?

September 18, 2016 heyjuliesmith1 Comment

When I give talks about media literacy, nearly everyone agrees that this is an important, 21st century survival skill. We…

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We Need to Talk About Leslie Jones

August 25, 2016 heyjuliesmith2 Comments

Why we Need to Talk About Leslie Jones in Class By now you’ve probably heard about SNL’s Leslie Jones, who’s…

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Can Our Students get Hooked by Pfishing?

August 16, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

Do our students know these pfishing tricks? There is so much more to digital citizenship than just how we treat…

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What My College Freshmen Do Badly

August 2, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

College papers are not Facebook rants.  Students need our help distinguishing the two. It’s time for final papers in my online…

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Ways to Make Your Classrooms Introvert-Friendly

July 24, 2016 heyjuliesmith2 Comments

How to Engage the Student Voice of your Introvert Students Full disclosure: I am not an introvert.  In fact, I’d…

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Media Literacy in an Age of Immediate and Horrible News

July 17, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

“Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and…

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Bogus or Bonafide? How to Make Lies Look Legit:

July 5, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

We’ve all seen these.  The viral Facebook posts about privacy.  And (hopefully) we all know that they are hoaxes.  (Well,…

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Feel the Ground Shifting: C-SPAN and Social Media are Changing Everything

June 22, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

        There’s a big fight on Capitol Hill about gun legislation.  This is not news, nor is…

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11 Tools to Verify that Online Info

June 2, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

This afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting at the Catholic Press Association National Conference here in St. Louis.  Great…

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Four Ways Video Editing Can Affect Us (“The Shining” as a romantic comedy?)

May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 heyjuliesmithNo Comments

When we analyze production values in class, we talk about the obvious ones:  music, lighting, use of color, etc. But…

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