Create Your Own Web Show with Reel Grrls

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 …

Toy Ads and Learning Gender

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 …

Video Blogging Workshop with Reel Grrls

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 …