REMINDER: You should have posted a comment ON YOUR BLOG (update your blog) about your plans/thoughts about a college program (in Media Studies or some other major...) Make sure you've done that! See previous post for details!
Complete the Media Consumption Questionnaire. Keep this near you when you respond to the video.
RESPONSE: In the COMMENT section below, please indicate what you learned about yourself from taking the questionnaire. How "media literate" are you in your opinion? Explain why you feel this way. [Refer to our homework rubric for details on how your answer will be scored.]
TASK #3 (from last class): Mass Media Slide Presentation Topic. Choose and sign up for one of the following slideshow presentation topics. Use your time in the lab to begin researching the inventor & invention that helped develop mass media. Take notes on your topic. Design your presentation using Google Slides.
Complete the Media Consumption Questionnaire. Keep this near you when you respond to the video.
- Crash Course Media Literacy #1 (10 min.)
RESPONSE: In the COMMENT section below, please indicate what you learned about yourself from taking the questionnaire. How "media literate" are you in your opinion? Explain why you feel this way. [Refer to our homework rubric for details on how your answer will be scored.]
TASK #3 (from last class): Mass Media Slide Presentation Topic. Choose and sign up for one of the following slideshow presentation topics. Use your time in the lab to begin researching the inventor & invention that helped develop mass media. Take notes on your topic. Design your presentation using Google Slides.
- Oral/Written Era: technology mostly delivered through oral/early written traditions (circa 1,000 BCE to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Mesopotamian cuneiform
- Ancient Greek theater & the invention of theater
- Print Revolution: 100CE (China) to about 1045. Development of movable type (printing press)
- Cai Lun & The invention of paper in China
- Rome & the invention of the codex or bound book
- Gutenberg & the printing press (movable type)
- The Electronic Era: the rise of the Industrial Age (1800's) until about 1930's.
- Benjamin Franklin & the Saturday Evening Post (early newspapers)
- Samuel Morse & the telegraph
- Nikola Tesla & The Tesla Coil & the wireless
- Guglielmo Marconi & the long distance radio
- Charles Babbage & the "difference engine" (early computer)
- Alexander Graham Bell & the telephone
- Thomas Edison & the phonograph
- WKL Dickson & the Kinetoscope/kinetograph
- William Friese-Greene & movie cameras & early color film
- George Eastman & film
- The Digital Era: 1930's through 1990's (the rise of computers/internet, etc.)
- John Logie Baird & the mechanical television
- Philo Farnsworth & the electric television
- Tim Berners-Lee & the World Wide Web
- Martin Cooper & the cell phone
- Vic Hayes & Wi-Fi
Use Google slides to incorporate your answer:
- Find out (and be able to explain) what your topic is.
- Research specific interesting details (not all details!) about your subject.
- Research how your subject influenced or impacted technology that came after it (convergence).
- Note if your technology is still being used today (or how has it changed?)
- YOUR SLIDES: should include:
- A title page with your name on it and the name of your subject/invention/topic.
- 2-3 slides about your subject (introduction of the person or culture that created the invention)
- 2-3 slides about the invention (What is it? How does it work? What did it do/what does it do?
- A slide describing what effect or impact the invention has had on other inventions or ideas (mass media) that came after it.
- A works cited page in MLA format. See MLA format for help. (You may use a citation machine to help you.)
- You may include a short video if you need to. Videos should not be more than 3 minutes in length.
- Your slides should be designed to appeal to a viewer/peer student.
- You may only have 12 words on a slide!
- Use note cards for your presentation details about your subject matter. You may use as many note cards as you need to explain your subject and invention to your audience (us).
- You will prepare and present your "presentation" next week (most likely Friday*).
HOMEWORK: None. If you are behind with any assignment, please make sure you complete assignments and continue to prepare your research presentation. Presentations will be due next week (most likely Friday). We will continue to work on our research/presentations next class.
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ReplyDeleteI learned from the video and from the small survey we took that I'm about an 8 out of a 10 when it comes to me being media literate not only because I do spend a lot of my time dealing with watching or being involved with some sort of media.but because I also know my way around the media and some of the hidden intensions behind the media. But yes I spend most of my day actually involved with some sort of media even when I am doing homework some sort of media is involved with the completion of my homework.
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ReplyDeleteThe major thing I learned about myself is that I really spend a lot of time using the media. I know that I’m better at understanding the anything from we receive from the Internet because it seriously is hard for me to stay focused on looking at a book or anything on paper. I feel this way because I know how long I can sit still and just not be on the internet and then when I do that I get easily distracted and bored.
I feel like I spend most of my time on my phone and snap chat mostly. Snap chat is one of the apps all of the teenagers have throughout the world. Its one of the best apps that teenagers use to communicate with their friends. I spend more time on my phone then anything else i fell i like a lot but i only watch when im bored or when my favorite show comes on. I agree what what the man was saying in this video about the media and etc.Everybody and everything is media .. that was his main message.
ReplyDeleteIt would shock me to discover a student in this class that isn't a little bit immersed in the media. But just how immersed am I? I feel a lot more confident about my own media use after filling out the "Digital Limits" questionnaire, with most of my responses ranging from zero to two hours (although homework usually takes 3-4 hours of my time and video games take up 4+ hours of my time on the weekends). I suddenly feel like I moderate my media use fairly well. However, the hours that I am able to access the internet are late and do nothing for my health. No matter how long it is, media use is a disease (albeit not one that I'm going to cure). I do not know if it would be any different if I owned a phone, but that is my response for now. Perhaps I will think more about my media use today.
ReplyDeleteI particularly think of myself as "media literate" to a small extent. I can spend hours on the internet looking through posts as well as reading and liking them, but I don't always understand the content that i'm consuming. This happens especially when posts are attaining to something that has been cut out of context. When certain things are taken out of context, it's difficult to understand the entirety of it. Since I don't text at all, If I see a post that uses emoji's or random pictures to convey a message or something, I can never decode it. Out of all the time that i'm on my phone, I spend more time reading ebooks and playing games than anything.
ReplyDeleteAs I read over the paper I notice that I'm not really much of a person who likes to be in the internet, I rather just do hands on things than look at the screen all the time. It might be addicting, but I do have a limit in how much I should go for. Media brainwashes people to look at the bright colors and entertainment, in order to get good views and things that would benefit the growth of money for the company.
ReplyDeleteAfter taking the Questionnaire, I realized I spend most of my time on texting, on the phone, and watching television. I rarely ever play games or play games on a computer unless it is an option. I can see that my phone and watching television is taking up more than 8 hours out of my weekends and weekdays. I believe am not that media literate, I often don't understand the tone of the text I receive. I really do try to analysis if the tone is happy, mad, or even sad. But not understanding the tone of the text makes it extremely hard to respond with the correct tone back. Even though, I am not that media literate I will working hard to learn how decode and analysis the text I receive better.
ReplyDeleteThe things I learned about myself from taking the questionnaire is that I spend more time on my phone more then any other thing. I think that communication is because when I do things I use communication because I feel like its better to use I feel this way because all of the other options are more difficult and not me
ReplyDeleteI feel as if I am media literate in most areas. I can comprehend the social media I look at and television and videos and the radio pretty well as in I understand what the message is and who is sending it out to me. Every morning, I wake up to this one radio station and I listen to it for about a half an hour. In this time, there are advertisements, talk shows, and of course music. I think I can decode that pretty well and I never don't know what's happening. But, this is also because the radio station I listen to is very main-stream and the news segment they do is short and only the ear-catching stuff. But sometimes when I'm listening, I can forget that they are fictional characters and even find myself invested in the stories they have. I don't think that's intirely bad, however for somebody else who doesn't even recognize what they are really trying to do and how they are fictional, it could be surreal. As for how much media I am surrounded by, I tend to think that I only go on social media, video sharing sites, messages with my friends, and radio. I watch some movies and shows but no news or cable shows. I also don't really read much, which in our day is a vital way of getting accurate news. My parents are more strict than some of my friends parent's and I think that if I had more freedom, I would go on different types of media more often.
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ReplyDeleteI feel like media has a huge affect on my life because of the simple fact that I use it every single day. The media can be overrated at times. I feel very literate when it comes to media, but not fully. After taking the survey I realized the amount of time I spend on media on a daily basis. I enjoy being on the internet for various reasons. One of those reasons is the fact that you can do multiple things on the internet. Everything you need is at the tip of your fingers.
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ReplyDeleteI think that I am relatively media literate or at least I am very wary of the media. For example, I never trust advertisements to tell me what to buy because I know that the people who created these adds will directly benefit from my purchase of their products. I am also very aware of what sources I get my news from. My family mostly listens to NPR so I know that in general I am getting my political information from a pretty liberal source, whereas if I was listening to Fox news, I would be getting facts and opinions from the right side of our current politics. I am also hyper aware about the messages Television and books send us about what people "should" be like. Most actors, specifically in romance movies, have certain characteristics that are associated with beauty and create unrealistic standards for what love and life look like. I am aware of this and try to not let my self fall prey to these type of messages.
ReplyDeleteOn the video we just watched The man who was narrating it mentioned that it is our job to pass Media around and share information with other, whether it is educational or News in general. I feel as if we people who are strongly invested in the Media already spread news whether it be through media or bob forbid a one on one conversation. I as a person who rarely uses the internet I can even say that once in a while I am good enough to keep my mom up to date on a viral you tube video or something. That is if she dosent find it first
ReplyDeleteThe questionnaire and the crash course video has made me realize what I really spend my time on. I think that I am media literate enough about most of things on Media. I don't believe everything that i see on the internet and I do realize that the everything on the internet has a hidden intention or message behind every thing they sell, that the consumers, such as myself, is expected to understand. I see ads everywhere and every single one of them has a code behind it and I decode them pretty well most of the time.
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ReplyDeleteWhen concerning Media Literacy, I consider myself Media illiterate. Don't get me wrong I stay up to date on news and media (most of the time), but when it comes to the media in general I am not as involved as most people my age. I think that Entertainment Media has the most effect on my life, such as video games. Mostly I am active playing my sibling or neighbors, finishing up school work, or talking with my parents.