Media, culture and faith / working with children

This is a page of resources I used in conjunction with a presentation I made to the Children's Ministry roundtable on the 3rd of April 2003.

Background theories

Emmaus paper . "Trucks carrying cargo" paper . Bible and others paper . Ellen Seiter's bibliography . Media and communications .

Web resources

Film sites . Media literacy review . Web examples . ABS New Media Bible . Practicing our faith . A way to live .

Other resources

HeroTV . Merchants of Cool . "Lights, Camera, Faith" . handout on mapping exercise . handout on "rule of 3's" .media and reality exercise . VeggieTales .

Organizations

Alliance for a Media Literate America . Center for Media Literacy . Cable in the Classroom (resources for parents) . Nat'l Institute on Media and the Family .

Children and the war

PBS.org . St. Mary's Press (teens) . Chinaberry . Purdue University . Family Education Network . Children Now . ReadyClickGrow .