October 19, 2011
I spent the past weekend at the Reel Grrls office leading a workshop to an all ages group of women and girls. The intensive two day workshop covered everything from how to research and write a script, shooting video and composition, how to edit with Final Cut Pro, how to do a media literacy …
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Tags: Media Literacy, Reel Grrls, Videoblog, Workshop, Youth
November 16, 2010
Created for Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium
I recently watched afternoon cartoons on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and I was shocked to find a flood of highly gendered toy commercials. These ads not only market toys to children but it also promotes and encourages gender specific values that are very limiting to boys and …
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Tags: Advertising, Barbie, Cartoon Network, Commercials, Gender, Iron Man, Nerf, Nickelodeon, Reel Grrls, Sexism, Socialization, Toys, Youth
February 25, 2010
I’m excited to be leading a workshop about video blogging at Reel Grrls on Saturday March 13th, 2010 (the workshop in December was rescheduled). We’ll be learning the process of putting a video blog together from conception to distribution as well as the fun of media literacy!
Reel Grrls is a great …
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Tags: Reel Grrls, Workshop, Youth