Frank Baker
Summer Workshop: Arts/Language Arts
July 2005
Frank W. Baker is a graduate of the University of Georgia (ABJ, Journalism). He worked in television news from 1977 to 1986, at stations in South Carolina, Maryland and Florida. In 1987, he joined the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV and Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel to bring media literacy education to teachers and students in the nation's 16th largest school district. (See 1995 article from Orlando Sentinel; 1996 article from Cable In The Classroom magazine.) Upon returning to South Carolina in 1997, he taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website. His 1999 content analysis of all 50 state's teaching standards revealed that almost all states have some "elements of media literacy." He is past president of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) and past vice-president of the National Telemedia Council (NTC). He is a frequent presenter at schools and conferences across the United States. Frank worked for South Carolina ETV (PBS), from February 1998-mid June 2003. He assisted the SC State Department of Education's English Language Arts team in revising the state teaching standards to include media literacy. Portions of his film study guide to the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird" have been published in Australian SCREEN EDUCATION magazine. Currently, he is an educational consultant.
