“…Schwarz and Brown (2005:p 6) writes that while there is lack of agreement about the concept of media literacy, "… many scholars, educators, parents, and community activists agree that media literacy is essential in the 21st century." Most scholars agree that being able to produce, analyze and critique various media is an important part of media literacy competence (Schwarz 2005;Thoman and Jolls 2004) We encourage post-secondary institutions to offer documentary support services as resources permit. A short list of the basic technological resources needed includes knowledgeable staff of documentary production; recording equipment for students to check out including consumer grade cameras, tripods, lavalier microphones; computer editing labs with firewire ports, intermediate level editing software, studio microphones for narration, and extra backup storage space for projects.…”