The start of a new school year is imminent and chaos, stress, and fatigue is rampant in my world at the moment. Some of it is the same-old-same-old, and I should confess that as a former journalist, I do enjoy the adrenalin rush, not unlike what happens in the throes of sending an issue to press 
But one aspect was certainly new: I had two new faculty members, both in the languages department, contact me with requests for training on digitizing movie clips for classroom viewing and assignment purposes. Now, we’ve definitely seen an upsurge in both, the number of faculty digitizing video for classroom viewing and the number assigning video projects to their students, but requests for training even before the semester began, not ever before.
Much has been made in recent years on the need for information literacy classes on campus; we’ve certainly sen the numbers grow on our campus. To my mind however, this new development might be a signal that there might be need for media literacy classes as well. Whether it’s a web page or a video clip, for the faculty, it’s a tightrope act between the aesthetics, the production values, and the content. Meida literacy sessins might provide a reasonable solution in that they can call upon an expert to assess the aesthetics and production values, while they focus on the content.
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