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Games for Online Learning

Digital media tools combine play and learning, creating immersive, participatory environments.The Media Education Lab explores how online multimedia can support the development of the 4 C's: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication skills,

We're Opening Our Doors
A free professional development program for educators
Powerful Voices for Kids Summer Media Program for Children
A Program Especially for Russell Byers Charter School Students and Middle School and High School ALUMNI
Digital Media and Learning Conference, Feb 18 - 20
Join Renee Hobbs and members of the Media Education Lab at the DML Conference in LaJolla, California on February 18 - 20 for this exciting conference on digital media and…
Media Education Lab Wins Creative Projects Prize at AEJMC
Our collaborative project, Access, Analyze, Act: a Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement won the Creative Projects Award from the Visual Communication Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass…

Digital Workshops for the Digital Nation
Renee Hobbs and her colleagues at the Media Education Lab developed the Digital Workshops for Parents and Educators as part of Frontline's "Digital Nation," premiering February 2, 2010.
My Pop Studio
My Pop Studio is an online creative play experience for girls ages 9 - 14 that promotes media literacy with edutainment gaming. Girls can: Create a pop star and reflect on…

Some of the publications of members of the Media Education Lab team:

(2010, June). Media Education Lab 2010 End-of-Year Report. Philadelphia: Temple University
Donnelly, K.. (2008, March). Youth Participation and Media Literacy on The-N.com. SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy, (8)
Hobbs, R. and Rowe, J.. (2008). Creative Remixing and Digital Learning: Developing an Online Media Literacy Tool for Girls. P. C. Rivoltella (Ed.). Idea Group Press , 230 - 241.
Mendoza, K.. (2007). Connecting the Literature on Girls and the Internet to Evaluation Ideas for My Pop Studio. Philadelphia: Temple University
Mendoza, K.. (2007). WATZ UR NAM?: Adolescent Girls, Chat Rooms, and Interpersonal Authenticity. Philadelphia: Temple University
Mendoza, K.. (2007). How do Girls Experience an Online Game for Media Literacy?: A Research Proposal. Philadelphia: Temple University
Baker, B., Donnelly, K., Mendoza, K., and Surowiak, D.. (2006). Analyzing an Online Game for Media Literacy: My Pop Studio Popstar Producer. Philadelphia: Temple University