Our Services
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The Media Spot builds media literacy in a variety of learning environments. We are a group of media professionals, educators and scholars who bring student-centered, language-based media production to classrooms, afterschool programs, and other educational settings, and provide resources for students and educators to tap into the larger media literacy movement.
We custom-design projects that integrate digital video and the Internet into existing curricula. Then we collaborate in every step of the process with teachers, their students, and other media producers to complete productions using these media.
Our collaborative production process allows participants to understand what it means to be a producer of media, helps them think critically about the relationships between producers and their audiences in our media-rich society, strengthens traditional literacy, and empowers individuals with the skills and confidence to discover their voice in the dominant media of the 21st Century.
TMS also offers curricular assessment, professional development, technical consultation, and other services vital to integrating technology and media literacy in any learning environment.
To see TMS in action, be sure to check out our promotional video, The Media Spot Live!
TMS' Services include:
- Short and Long-term custom multimedia project planning for K-12 schools, afterschool programs, and camps
- Administration of collaborative productions with educators and students
- Set-up and administration of custom websites, Internet forums, blogs and other social networking tools, and media galleries
- Professional Development workshops for educators on use and curricular integration of digital technologies and new media
- Technology assessment and long-term planning
- Technical support and consultation