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These are positive messages that you can print, colour, and carry around with you to help bring a bit of extra joy and reflection into your life!

Click here to download the cards (PDF). 

These double sided cards include a fun design for you to colour while you de-stress and an important message for you to remember when the stress gets to you. You can carry your cards with you, paste them somewhere you can see them, or give them to a friend who could use the pick me up.

If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for a book to read. Over the years I’ve read many books from multiple genres and am always looking for a new recommendation. However, during the pandemic, I began to feel isolated in more ways than one. Not only was I unable to leave my house, but I was unable to escape the real world and lose myself in a book.

Are you able to relate?

Part of living in the digital era is understanding the diverse ways to access digital media and content. Copyright is relevant to digital media in that it deals with protecting owners of creative works. It is the rights the individual has over their original piece of work, ranging from literary works to artistic works, dramatic works and musical works. In Canada, the moment you have created an original work, you are automatically protected by copyright.

For Media Literacy Week we’re also going to be discussing, arguably, the most important aspect of digital media literacy: how to verify online information. Verification is a multi-step process that relies on a few skills to discern the quality and credibility of information. It brings together all the other themes discussed in media literacy week: to use, understand, engage and access online content.