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Brent Phillips

Brent Phillips is the Audiovisual Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center. He is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, with research interests in the performing arts, cinema history, and the preservation of endangered languages.

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HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

Grades 10 – Graduate level/Adult education. This audiovisual media literacy educational resource focuses on video media. Videographic materials often communicate messages visually. Articulating precisely how this is done, through both visual and narrative information, requires critical media literacy skills. Through watching and analyzing these videos, students will explain underlying messages and attitudes within the videos.

Left side of the political poster reads "Éire" (Ireland), right side reads "West Britain". In between both images reads "Seachtain na Saoirse". Bottom of the print reads "On which side are you on? Language Collection Now On."
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The Irish Language Debate: Nationalism and Rockefeller Foundation Medical Education Reform in the Irish Free State

Ireland’s independence revived the nationalist campaign for mandatory Irish language. The debate discouraged Rockefeller Foundation funders.

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American Choreographers: Funding the Creative Process

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Voter Education Audiovisual Media Literacy Guide

Grades 4-8. The clips of legacy audiovisual documents related to voter education serve as primary sources that can be viewed, analyzed, and discussed in a classroom setting to help students build media literacy skills. The corresponding video provides a guided learning experience.   View this resource on OER Commons.