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 |  | Frank W. Baker was a school administrator in Orlando, Florida for 11 years and a public television education specialist for 6 years. He specializes in professional development workshops around 21st century literacy skills, specifically media literacy. His workshops are hands-on and highly interactive. His goal is to help teachers make the connection between media literacy and state teaching standards. His nationally recognized Web page, The Media Literacy Clearinghouse, and his workshops, have both received rave reviews. |
Frank W. Baker's Selected Presentations
Presentation Topics
| Frank presents to K–12 educators including English and content teachers on media literacy and connecting standards with media literacy. Click here for a listing of presentation topics and places he has consulted. |
Workshops
| Frank enjoys working with groups of teachers, education leaders, and students about media literacy. He brings great energy to every consultation and the ideas and strategies he shares are both practical and innovative. Click here for a listing of workshops delivered by Frank.
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Frank W. Baker's Media Literacy Clearinghouse
| This website is designed to help K–12 educators learn more about media literacy; integrate it into classroom instruction; help students read the media; and help students become more media aware.
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Frank’s NCTE Web Seminar Presentation
|  View the PPT from Frank’s Web seminar presentation "Reading the Media: Helping Students (and Teachers) Become Media Literate by Teaching 21st Century Skills" on February 5, 2008. The On Demand version of this web seminar is available in the NCTE Store. |
Leaders in Learning: In Their Own Words
| In this podcast from Cable In The Classroom, Frank talks about media literacy, which he defines as, "critical thinking about media messages," and its importance in the classroom. |
Frank Baker Presentation Photos
| See Frank in action during some of his presentations. |
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Published Works by Frank W. Baker
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
|  This book offers a collection of media literacy lessons for the secondary English classroom, including a CD of student handouts, teacher resources, and sample media files. |
Digital Texts and the New Literacies
|  In this September 2007 English Journal article, read how online resources opened up possibilities for new ways of teaching and learning traditional skills of close reading and critical analysis. |
Finding Space and Time for the Visual in K–12 Literacy Instruction
| Literacy instruction must include attention to the multiple ways in which print and visual images work together. In this September 2007 English Journal article, read about ways to update accepted reading strategies “with visual texts and new literacies in mind.” |
Books, Articles, and More
| Frank's recent publications have focused on media literacy and what current teaching standards say teachers should be teaching (and students learning) about non-print media. |
Policy Research in ELA: Multi-Modal Literacies
| Students engage with a variety of texts, both print and multimodal, as they learn. By exploring the information developed by NCTE here, you can learn more about how to extend the reach of multimodal literacy. |
Multimodal Transformations
|  Read the articles in this September 2006 issue of Language Arts. focusing on multimodal literacies as a study group resource to encourage and expand your thinking on new literacies. |
Alliance Provides 'Core Principles' for Media Literacy
| Frank Baker is quoted in this Education Week article. |
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Related Resources
Awards and Honors
| Frank is the recipient of several awards including the 2007 Cable in the Classroom award for media literacy. |
Education and Experience
| Frank worked in television news before joining the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV/Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel to bring media literacy education to teachers and students. He returned to South Carolina and taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website. |
Reading Nonfiction Texts Kit
|  Because nonfiction texts are read differently than fiction, students need different skills for decoding and interpreting nonfiction works. This kit offers strategies for helping students read and interpret nonfiction texts and would be useful before or after a consultation by Frank. |
Pathways to Advance Adolescent Literacy
|  Frank Baker's work helps educators think about what it means to be literate in the 21st century. This is one of the main areas within Pathways a professional development learning pathway for individual teachers, school and district teams, and state-wide iInitiatives. |
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