Padlet, Labels, TedTalk, A Career in Media?

After Asher & Delimar's Prezi's, please complete your Padlet project.

PADLET Project: Labeling

Choose a partner. Using PADLET, together create a graphic list/mindmap/chart that examines: Good labels versus Bad labels. Collaborate with your partner. Be prepared to share your work to the class. Padlets allow you to use graphics, charts, text, and video to examine your subject matter. By sharing your URL with your partner, you can both work on your Padlet at the same time from your own computers. Once you both finish adding material (photos, media clips, text, etc.) you should organize your PADLET before you submit your work to me through the COMMENT box below. Find examples of good and bad labels from internet sources.

DETAILS: Each group should try to identify examples or ways in which we identify or label ourselves in society that can offer a positive reinforced idea of ourselves. Then turn the tables and think of ways and examples of bad labels--ways we ostracize or marginalize or leave out certain types of people from our society or cultural groups, or negative labels that define our identities.

After creating your Padlet, please watch the following TedTalk: Has media made us into label mongers? To turn in, please watch the video and complete Cornell Notes based on the talk. Put the key points the speaker is making in the left column, and use the right column for specific details about the key points. Turn in your notes for participation credit when you complete this assignment today.

One side effect of studying the media is that you might find that you love the subject and would like to study it as a major in college. While you are still a few years away from having to make that decision, knowing what this course can do for you and your future career can be helpful.

Even if you decide that media studies is not for you as a career, building your literacy and communication skills will definitely impact your fiction and poetry skills. Learning how to write journalistically can enhance your writing ability, not to mention your personal communication skills. Many publishers prefer the stark and clean journalistic writing style when buying manuscripts.

Today, let's focus on our future a moment. Use your journal/notebook/graphic organizer for this assignment. Check out the bulleted list below to see if a college program in Media might be something you'd like to pursue as a professional career. Click on and read the various college programs in Media Studies. What skills, topics, or subjects do these programs seem to cover? Focus on areas that these programs have in common.

Various College Programs in Journalism/Media Studies:

• University of Rochester
• SUNY Buffalo
• CUNY Queen's College
• MCC
• New York University
• Penn State University
• Vassar College

And, of course, there are many others.

Now that you've seen a few examples of college programs in media studies, take the next 15-20 minutes to research college programs you might be interested in. What field or subject are you interested in pursuing? What course content do these programs cover? What do these programs promise to do for a student? What makes the program unique?

Be prepared to share your findings with a partner or peer group.

NOTE: Revisit this project at any time during the year when you are wondering why you are studying this stuff. It may help get you back on track.

HOMEWORK: Please read the next chapter in Chew on This: "Meat". To turn in, please answer the following questions (there are several here) in complete sentences.

• Describe (using textual evidence from this chapter) how cows, chickens, and pigs are raised for the fast-food industry today? 
• Answer in what ways are they raised differently from the way they were raised fifty or sixty years ago? 
• What are some environmental consequences of the way that we raise the animals for our food today? 
• What do you think of these changes? How much or little do you feel the fast food industry is responsible for them? And finally: 
• If you were in charge of one of the biggest meatpacking companies, what would you do differently?