MediaEd Club

About

The MediaEd Club of the Media Education Lab is a free and open online (Zoom) gathering of media literacy educators, academics, and advocates from around the world on the first Monday of every month.

We meet at noon ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am ET / 4pm GMT.

Archived Meetings

Check out our past meetings via our YouTube playlist! Join us for our next meetup on Zoom!

Background and History

It was at the 2018 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy that this seed of an idea was sown when we decided to have a monthly meeting to discuss compelling books, podcasts, videos or any media related to our interests.

Samantha Stanley and Michael Stoepel got together as the first coordinators of the Media Club in 2018 and continued to lead this initiative brilliantly for four years! Later, they were joined by Devina Sarwatay who live tweeted the Media Club meetings so that people who could not join were able to follow the conversation on Twitter.

Samantha and Michael invited hosts every month to discuss their favorite media with members and eventually helped create a community that has since learned and grown together. We have discussed books, videos, and podcasts, shared teaching resources and ideas, workshopped new technology and media artifacts together, and shared our aspirations and anxieties about media, technology, and media education in this community. After a short break, MediaEd Club was back in March 2023 with new coordinators - Jocelyn Young and Devina Sarwatay, who continued with this vibrant community and its vital communication followed by Francia Garcia Hernandez. 

Starting in October 2024, Wes Fryer, affiliate faculty at the Media Education Lab who offered our micro credential course on "Teaching the Conspiracies," took the lead as our latest (and current) MediaEd Club meeting facilitator. 

We hope to continue engaging with our MediaEd Club community and invite hosts for future meetings and discuss a cool book, podcast, video or any media related to our interests. Please get in touch:

Dr. Wes Fryer, Webinar Series Manager | wes.fryer@providenceday.org