On page 71 in Beach’s Teachingmedialiteracy.com, it talked about the crime genre. Recently I rented a documentary called Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room. It is a description of how the Enron catastrophe took place. For students in their high school years, they might find this piece appealing. Correlate a piece a literature with this movie, mix it with it some compare and contrast, and you have a recipe for a decent lesson plan.
Students are definitely interested in day-time talk. It touches all types of social issues. Some of them are more commercialized them others, but getting articles with expert opinions that deal with day-talk issues from shows like Tyra or Maury, can make it educational and interest seeking.
T.V. News.:
Beach notes that news coverage focuses more on a younger audience. There is a lot of ground to cover when it comes to learning about the news business and its operations. Beach also mentions that news is expanding to the web, partially because people in general don’t have time to catch it on T.V. How about a unit where students learn about the simple elements that news coverage uses to run a show. There has to be at least one educational standard they use? Take the methods that news companies use for research, delivery, script writing, collaborations, reporting, and create a news report on an issue they find engaging. Their report doesn’t have to be video inclined; they can have the option to pose it as a written text.
Read an article from the paper, or listen to a commentary on the news, and disagree with it. Demonstrate the disagreement to that news company through writing. Make sure to use an example of how writing a disagreement of a news article can be affective.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
morethingsonastick.com.pbwiki
Thing 38
Screencasting. From a beginning standpoint, screencasting is needed to use the internet because Adobe PDF is essential for watching a video. If you don't have Adobe PDF, then you're probably not watching anything on youtube.
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnOoRehu
1) I picked the screencast-0-matic. I don't how I did it, but follow that think, and somehow I end up recording on it???
2) Screen-cast is so easy to use, and it's fun
3) I can use this personally, I can record up to fifteen minutes. instead of taking notes, I can record through my laptop.
Screencasting. From a beginning standpoint, screencasting is needed to use the internet because Adobe PDF is essential for watching a video. If you don't have Adobe PDF, then you're probably not watching anything on youtube.
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnOoRehu
1) I picked the screencast-0-matic. I don't how I did it, but follow that think, and somehow I end up recording on it???
2) Screen-cast is so easy to use, and it's fun
3) I can use this personally, I can record up to fifteen minutes. instead of taking notes, I can record through my laptop.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
morethingsonastick.com.pbwiki
Thing 29 WIKI
I went to goole and typed in the search bar: Plasma Wiki. Tons of information showed up. For whatever subject you type in and then reference it with WIKI, you always tend to get loads of information along with numerous references. In an education setting, I'd say go head and let students use WIKI if need be, but you better make sure that the sources are creditable
I went to goole and typed in the search bar: Plasma Wiki. Tons of information showed up. For whatever subject you type in and then reference it with WIKI, you always tend to get loads of information along with numerous references. In an education setting, I'd say go head and let students use WIKI if need be, but you better make sure that the sources are creditable
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Unit Plan Man
I've narrowed it down to one standard: Speaking listening and viewing for high school; The student will demonstrate understanding and communicate effectivley through listening and speaking. And there's six benchmarks with that standard.
1) We can first understand opinion versus fact
2) The relationship versus verbal and nonverbal in speeches- Obama, Bill, Chris Farley, Dr. King.... cooperative learning groups
3) What does it mean to have interpersonal communication...We can explore that
That's week 1 ( I haven't worked out the details yet)
4)Lets evluate commcercials, songs, and texts Whats their VAIL-P and how do the market it
Vocab Audience Image Langauge and Purpose (VAIL-P)
5) Lets watch a clip from the pursuaders
6) Get a guest speaker. We can critque him or her on what we've learned. Then spend two days coming up with a two minute speeech...Maybe two weeks isn't enough, but that's where I want to go with. I want to spend time using media to learn about verbal, non-verbal, interpersonal and VAIL-P and then having students come up with a speech of their own, or maybe a group presentation or something!!! Or maybe focus on a piece of work that they've picked and use what we've learn to critique it...
1) We can first understand opinion versus fact
2) The relationship versus verbal and nonverbal in speeches- Obama, Bill, Chris Farley, Dr. King.... cooperative learning groups
3) What does it mean to have interpersonal communication...We can explore that
That's week 1 ( I haven't worked out the details yet)
4)Lets evluate commcercials, songs, and texts Whats their VAIL-P and how do the market it
Vocab Audience Image Langauge and Purpose (VAIL-P)
5) Lets watch a clip from the pursuaders
6) Get a guest speaker. We can critque him or her on what we've learned. Then spend two days coming up with a two minute speeech...Maybe two weeks isn't enough, but that's where I want to go with. I want to spend time using media to learn about verbal, non-verbal, interpersonal and VAIL-P and then having students come up with a speech of their own, or maybe a group presentation or something!!! Or maybe focus on a piece of work that they've picked and use what we've learn to critique it...
Saturday, February 7, 2009
morethingsonastick.com.pbwiki
Thing 24
Make sure a blog is personal and reflective. If you don't interest youself in the blogs of others, then it is likely that no one will follow your blogs. Blog in Blog on!!!
Things 25
Videos pictures and more!!! Upload some.... I'll upload a video after this blog, I'll try, let us see if it works.
Widget; little bits of code that you embeded in your blog or website that let you display content from other sources.
Thing 27 twitter.com/gallag01
Twitter; Answers the question what are you doing now. This is an instant wirting link. We our so built on instant gratification, that this seems like an ideal option for most. Microblog, yup, that sounds like the right terminology for that.
Make sure a blog is personal and reflective. If you don't interest youself in the blogs of others, then it is likely that no one will follow your blogs. Blog in Blog on!!!
Things 25
Videos pictures and more!!! Upload some.... I'll upload a video after this blog, I'll try, let us see if it works.
Widget; little bits of code that you embeded in your blog or website that let you display content from other sources.
Thing 27 twitter.com/gallag01
Twitter; Answers the question what are you doing now. This is an instant wirting link. We our so built on instant gratification, that this seems like an ideal option for most. Microblog, yup, that sounds like the right terminology for that.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Teachingmedialiteracy.com Richard Beach
Film Techniques
Lighting
Lighting is what tells the story. Depending on the audience and what the writer is trying to pursue, lighting can move an audience in different directions in order to develop a certain perception. I used to wonder why my T.V. had options to change the lighting in regards to what I was watching. The lighting was divided into four sections (I think) on my T.V.; Movies, Sports, Shows, and I can't think of the other one??? Anyway, the link titled Lighting, located on the teachingliteracy.com website, helped me realize that the sections where there to make audiences focus on certain aspects thanks to the lighting.
Fostering Classroom Discussions
Sstudents benefit from making reflections and applications to literature. People watch television programs and are involved with media everyday. The next step is to make connections, applications, and reflections with daily media usage. It mentioned in the section labeled Fostering Classroom Discussions, that it's a beneficial strategy for students to compare ideas and themes with literature. This needs to be done with media. This engages students to dig deep into what each piece of media is trying to convey. Students will be asked to research different time periods, and find facts that support opinions on what these pieces of media depict.
Pop Matters
The website, pop matters is one of the biggest pop critiques today, how come I haven't heard of it? It shows some of the good, and some of the bad. It has over thirteen different sub-sections on it's website which touches on the aspects that pop culture really deals with: DVDS, Music, Sports, and etc. The audience for this site is world wide. There's a blog section on the page for viewers to conduct their own ideas about some of the events in pop culture. The thing I like about this site is that it takes things a person isn't aware and makes it interesting. I clicked on the comic section, which is something I know nothing about. I learned about this comic called Kick Drum Comix, where they have this villain rapper. This a new age comic series. Kim Ellis gave it a 7 out of 10.
Lighting
Lighting is what tells the story. Depending on the audience and what the writer is trying to pursue, lighting can move an audience in different directions in order to develop a certain perception. I used to wonder why my T.V. had options to change the lighting in regards to what I was watching. The lighting was divided into four sections (I think) on my T.V.; Movies, Sports, Shows, and I can't think of the other one??? Anyway, the link titled Lighting, located on the teachingliteracy.com website, helped me realize that the sections where there to make audiences focus on certain aspects thanks to the lighting.
Fostering Classroom Discussions
Sstudents benefit from making reflections and applications to literature. People watch television programs and are involved with media everyday. The next step is to make connections, applications, and reflections with daily media usage. It mentioned in the section labeled Fostering Classroom Discussions, that it's a beneficial strategy for students to compare ideas and themes with literature. This needs to be done with media. This engages students to dig deep into what each piece of media is trying to convey. Students will be asked to research different time periods, and find facts that support opinions on what these pieces of media depict.
Pop Matters
The website, pop matters is one of the biggest pop critiques today, how come I haven't heard of it? It shows some of the good, and some of the bad. It has over thirteen different sub-sections on it's website which touches on the aspects that pop culture really deals with: DVDS, Music, Sports, and etc. The audience for this site is world wide. There's a blog section on the page for viewers to conduct their own ideas about some of the events in pop culture. The thing I like about this site is that it takes things a person isn't aware and makes it interesting. I clicked on the comic section, which is something I know nothing about. I learned about this comic called Kick Drum Comix, where they have this villain rapper. This a new age comic series. Kim Ellis gave it a 7 out of 10.
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