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Media Literacy Project: Bad-Ad Counter-Ad Contests

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 10:59am

2012-13 Bad Ad Contest from the Media Literacy Project

Find a bad ad in a magazine, internet, or other print source. Write an essay about why it's bad and how it could be better.

Winners in each category (middle school & high school) receive $100. Runners-up receive $50.

Deadline for entries is January 18th, 2013 (Postmarked on or before January 15th, 2013)

Winners will be announced in late April 2013

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Youth Media Opportunities

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SPNN partners with Youth in Government

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 1:22pm

For over a decade, SPNN has been helping youth learn how important media is to democracy. Each January, the Twin Cities’ YMCA Youth in Government (YIG) program brings together 1,500 Minnesota youth to hold a model assembly session at the Minneapolis Hilton. For three days, these enthusiastic young people learn about the democratic process through first-hand experience.

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Kiddo Media

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 2:53pm

my kid took these

The latest issue of the Youth Media Reporter has a good article about making media with younger kids. It's called "Not Too Young to Watch, Not Too Young to Make," and it advocates making media with younger youth than we usually work with in youth media:

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