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Author: Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA | Research interests include media literacy, communication, education, and technology.
This Generation is so On!
Healthy Teens sends a huge knuckle bump to everyone at generationOn! This global youth service organization is putting massive amounts of power in the hands…
The Reciprocal Benefits of Teaching ELLs
When conducting an internet search for the organization Project SHINE, various universities and colleges flood the search results. This initiative has swept across the country,…
Daily Dose of Strength
teenDailyStrength was launched in June of 2011. Pushed to fruition by Emmy award-winning talk show host, Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthCorps and ShareCare, this web-based teen…
The Debut of Healthy Teens [Blog]
I recently crafted the blog healthyteens.us as an extension of the ideas in my new book, Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools. My goal is to create a collaboratory for ideas on how media…
10 Steps to Media and Technology Literacy
Rather than simply use technology to support instruction, I firmly believe that media technologies exist to transform teaching and learning in a reciprocally innovative relationship between teacher…
Never Too Young to Be Happy
Eighth-grader Haile Thomas is living and happy proof that one is never too young to make a difference. This young woman has set quite a…
Mental Health On the Go
One in five youth has a mental illness, and this too often correlates with substance abuse. The second leading cause of death of those ages…
Fighting the Good (Food) Fight
One-third of children and over fifty-percent of adults in the United States are either overweight or obese. Each day 3,000 Americans die from heart disease…
Change, Change, and More Change
Baked antibiotic-free chicken, fresh sautéed kale, and sweet potato salad sounds like a recipe for deliciously good health, which can be a rare occasion for…