Nina Silver

February’s Newsletter is a reminder of our Mar 4 webinar, plus a new fun lesson from a recent AQ grad, Samar Ismail. Also, we talk about our most recent Barry’s Wander at Union [...]

l to r: Nina Silver; Carol Arcus; Wayne Arcus; Chelsea Attwell; Neil Andersen; Irene Faiz; Don Kwan   As a tribute to our leader and past mentor Barry Duncan, inspired by the teachings of [...]

AML is proud to present our Best of the Best: 28 Lessons and Ideas for Teaching Through and About Media at Secondary Level We are including 10 lesson/units for Black History Month 2022. Click [...]

Register now for our Spring Media AQ course! Plus OSSTF PD Day workshop materials, and a rich article from Chelsea Attwell and Carol Arcus. Click here for our March newsletter.

AML recognizes September 30, Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. “The day honours the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and [...]

A group of us from the AML attended Ron Deibert’s talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, on November 9. Deibert is the Director of The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at [...]

Looking for a Secondary Lesson about ‘privilege’ as part of Black History Month? This essay by Scott Russell Sanders written in 1984 and published in The Milkweed Chronicle still [...]

Using social media in our personal lives as well as the classroom February 14 is OSSTF PD DAY – Toronto Teachers If you are a secondary school teacher in the TDSB, there is still room for [...]

Many thanks to Nina Silver for sharing the following Secondary assessment/evaluation tools. Dracula  PSA Audacity Sound Production Rubric 2DL Media News Story Evaluation Photo Essay Evaluation [...]

A Lesson in Analysis of Social Networking Sites as Media Texts (taking a close look @ FACEBOOK) - Grades 11 and 12