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Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA)
A founding member of the AMLA as well as its predecessor, the Partnership for Media Education, CML has enthusiastically supported the formation (in 2001) of this national membership organization to stimulate the professional growth of media literacy in the United States. CML provides educational resource distribution/publishing support for the AMLA and promotes AMLA membership through the CML website.
Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy
Telemedium has long addressed media literacy issues through its Journal of Media Literacy. Subscribe by contacting The National Telemedia Council.
Educators for Social Responsibility
Educators for Social Responsibility's Online Teacher Center provides leading resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention and social responsibility. Lesson plans from CML's Five Key Questions That Can Change the World are featured on the site.
Project SmartArt
An alliance between CML and Los Angeles Unified School District's Leo Politi Elementary School, the Education Division of the Music Center of Los Angeles County, and AnimAction, Inc. resulted in Project SmartArt, one of 17 federally funded (2001) media literacy demonstration grants sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Smoke Detectors!
Sponsored by the County of Orange (CA) Health Agency, Smoke Detectors! is a health-related curriculum project designed by CML in 2002 to help teachers work with basic media literacy concepts to combat tobacco use by teens.
Cable in the Classroom
CML continues to support the work of Cable in the Classroom. In collaboration with the National PTA, CIC developed a national train-the-trainer media literacy and critical viewing project, Taking Charge of Your TV, which reached hundreds of thousands of parents. The curriculum was adapted from CML's 1991 Media Literacy Workshop Kit: Parenting in a TV Age.
ABC Family (formerly Fox Family Network)
CML supported the production effort of the one-hour special, "What Every Parent Needs to Know about the Entertainment Ratings," which aired nationally in July, 2001; in turn, ABC Family has released the copyright to CML for educational distribution world-wide.
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