NAMAC 1212 Broadway, Suite 816 Oakland, CA 94612 Telephone: (510) 451-2727 NAMAC stands for National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. This agency seeks to facilitate a national support network for teachers, and to develop and distribute resource materials. The future of NAMAC is somewhat tenuous, however, since they are primarily supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, which will likely be eliminated in the near future. NAME (National Alliance for Media Education) also falls under the NAMAC umbrella.

Strategies for Media Literacy 1095 Market Street, Suite 410 San Francisco, CA 94103 Telephone: (415) 621-2911 This organization develops and publishes materials, identifies resources, conducts workshops, and serves as a center of support and contact for teachers. They publish a quarterly newsletter, which you can subscribe to for $15 annually. You can also have access to their electronic bulletin board service for $20. Much of the text from this discussion of media literacy is taken from their publication Media & You: An Elementary Curriculum.

SWAMP 1519 West Main Houston, TX 77006 Telephone: (713) 522-8592 SWAMP is the Southwest Alternate Media Project. Although they are primarily a regional media arts center, SWAMP has been around a long time and are a good contact. They also organize an annual conference on media arts education and media literacy.

VIDKIDCO 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90803 Telephone: (310) 439-0751 A program of the Long Beach Museum of Art, VIDKIDCO is right in our own backyard. Located in the museum's Video Annex, it is a working video studio for young people. Here kids get to experience the technical and creative aspects of video first-hand. VIDKIDCO is mainly geared for teenagers; they do not work with younger children. They maintain an extensive video library (mostly for museum-site screenings or purchase).