Here are before class activities. Some activities are required and some of them are optional. Please email your responses and questions tomyildiz@lesley.edu These activities are intended for several reasons.
Prepare you for the discussions and follow up activities.
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.)
Also, materials can be used in your video productions. You can insert video clips or scan images, etc.
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.
Activity 1 Select ONE from the following choices to present on Friday night: 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.
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.
Three examples of commercials with clearly defined and different target audiences.
A commercial that uses a celebrity (hero, anti-hero) endorsement.
An example of a commercial that tries to convince you that you will feel better about yourself after use of this product.
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.
·Three different types of news stories happy news/ sad news/ health news. ·A media clip that you find objectionable for some reason.
Activity 2: 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.
Activity 3 (optional) 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.
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.)
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…
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.
These activities are intended for several reasons.
- Prepare you for the discussions and follow up activities.
- 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.)
- Also, materials can be used in your video productions. You can insert video clips or scan images, etc.
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.
- 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.
- Three examples of commercials with clearly defined and different target audiences.
- A commercial that uses a celebrity (hero, anti-hero) endorsement.
- An example of a commercial that tries to convince you that you will feel better about yourself after use of this product.
- 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.
· Three different types of news stories happy news/ sad news/ health news.· A media clip that you find objectionable for some reason.
Activity 2: 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.
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.
Activity 4: Please Read the following links
Read the following articles as much as you can for class discussions.
10 Classroom Approaches to Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article338.html
The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article2.html
Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article3.html
What Media Literacy is NOT?