Pre-Class+activities

Here are **before class**  activities. Some activities are required and some of them are optional. **Please email your responses and questions to** myildiz@lesley.edu   These activities are intended for several reasons. No one should be concerned if for some reason they are not able to record these clips or could not complete the assignments. It would actually benefit our discussions to have some examples brought in from other forms of mass media.  //Video tape or locate a link on the web //for  the following for the class exercises: (Option to this exercise is to bring news stories, commercials from a magazine, a newspaper, if you cannot have access to a VCR or Internet). Bring videotaped ads, actual magazine ads, internet cartoons, online articles, etc. ·  Three different types of news stories happy news/ sad news/ health news. ·  A media clip that you find objectionable for some reason. ||    <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">If you have a video camera, or you can borrow one for the following exercises, please select ONE of the activities below. More always welcome. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Read the following articles as much as you can for class discussions. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10 Classroom Approaches to Media Literacy <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article338.html <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article2.html <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article3.html <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">What Media Literacy is NOT? || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article380.html <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Prepare you for the discussions and follow up activities.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Provide authentic material chosen by the students, (Usually teacher has to provide the resources. But educators who take this course already have specific interest and motivation. By allowing you to bring your own selection and interest into course provide information to the instructor about their interest, knowledge, and ability.)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Also, materials can be used in your video productions. You can insert video clips or scan images, etc.
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Activity 1 **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> Select ONE from the following choices to present on Friday night:
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">An example of a commercial that, if the product's logo or other identifiers were removed, could be used for a product or purpose other than the one advertised.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Three examples of commercials with clearly defined and different target audiences.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A commercial that uses a celebrity (hero, anti-hero) endorsement.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">An example of a commercial that tries to convince you that you will feel better about yourself after use of this product.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Examples from at least three different (electronic, print, etc...) mass media sources of the coverage of one (the same) interesting or controversial event. (For example same news story one from Internet, one from local newspaper, one from CNN. or option same news story from three different stations or same station in three different days/ time) The purpose is to find out the coverage from different point of view. What makes the news and whose story is being told to whom, to what extent? For instance, bring one from cnn.com, one from New York times.com, one from your local newspaper.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Activity 2: **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> Fill out the MEDIA SURVEY below and send to me before first weekend. This survey helps the instructor design the course based on your interest.
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Activity 3 (optional) **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Video tape different perspectives of the same shots (thing or event) Such as get a tree from different perspective. (Do not forget to lie down under the tree.)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Video tape any of the following elements: Color, Shape, or Texture of your choice around you. For instance, pick shape circle and videotape all the circle objects you find around your home, office, school, etc…
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">What is it? Extreme close-up of any one object or thing from different angles. At the end of the tape, do not forget to show the whole object.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Activity 4: Please Read the following links **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">