Classroom Procedures: From your manifestos, the class agreed upon the following classroom rules or procedures to follow:
Rules You Would Like Us to Follow:
COMMENT on MY blog:
Rules You Would Like Us to Follow:
- Participate in this course/class
- Support each other creatively & respect each other; be considerate (no bullying or judging!); listen to each other & the teacher
- Share, provide constructive criticism positively & speak up in discussions (see above!)
- Collaborate on projects
- Stay on task/focus/put forth effort to pass (no procrastination! see above!)
COMMENT on MY blog:
Please take the first 10 minutes of class today to comment on ONE of the following questions in the COMMENT section of this blog. Your comment is worth participation credit today.
- Greek philosophers argued between the value of oral vs. written communication (philosophers believing that written communication threatened public debate). With the working class, at the time, being generally illiterate and economic and education gaps so vast, do we see any similar arguments between then and now? Which form of communication is better in your opinion: oral or written expression/debate?
- The printing press “fostered the modern idea of individuality”, however, it also fostered the rise of capitalism. Does modern print (magazines, newspapers, etc.) promote individuality or commercial conformity? Which is better for our society? Which is better for you personally?
- Chapter 1 mentions media-multitasking and our ability to access multiple different platforms of media and information while simultaneously being able to talk or discuss with others about it. How do you think this plays a role in “cancel culture?”
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. You will be asked to share your research with the class in an oral presentation.
- 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
Rubrics & expectations
Use Google slides to incorporate your answer:
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.
- 1-3 slides about your subject (introduction of the person or culture that created the invention); if your topic includes more than one person or object, you should prepare 1 slide per object/subject/person, etc.
- 1-3 slides about the invention (What is it? How does it work? What did it do/what does it do?
- 1 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 1-2 minutes in length.
- Your slides should be designed to appeal to a viewer/peer student. Use pictures! They are worth a thousand words!
- 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 class.
HOMEWORK: None. Complete your slideshow if you did not complete it during class today. Prepare your notes for a presentation next class.
Chapter 1 mentions media-multitasking and our ability to access multiple different platforms of media and information while simultaneously being able to talk or discuss with others about it. How do you think this plays a role in “cancel culture?”
ReplyDeleteI think having media and information makes it easier for people to receive facts about famous people or things, especially YouTube. YouTube allows people to post videos on whatever they want, which can also lead to cancel culture, even if what is said is false. Claims that seem horrendous for someone to do is easy to believe, and people end up cancelling based off of those false facts.
The printing press “fostered the modern idea of individuality”, however, it also fostered the rise of capitalism. Does modern print (magazines, newspapers, etc.) promote individuality or commercial conformity? Which is better for our society? Which is better for you personally?
ReplyDeleteModern print generally promotes commercial conformity. No matter what the periodical or magazine is about, often it contains advertisements promoting products or services which, when bought, making you no longer an individual. These large papers' whole goal is to be sold so they have to pander to a large group of people with similar interests, making people no longer individual. It also fosters unfair representation.
I think that individualism is better for society because it categorizes no one, and makes everyone feel represented. However, for me, a white male, conformity benefits me most because I am unfairly represented. Media should stop forcing people from feeling as though they had to conform, and fairly represent everyone.
To a certain degree, an argument can be formed about illiteracy among people but not necessarily enough to not go through a written debate.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to debates or any expression to convey some sort of point, oral presentation is ridiculously a far better option. Despite being unable to record things people say word by word but those are present can determine the passion in a person's voice through what they say. While reading, expressions of a person are assumed but through oral debates/discussions, feelings are determined.
Andrew Silas
Greek philosophers argued between the value of oral vs. written communication (philosophers believing that written communication threatened public debate). With the working class, at the time, being generally illiterate and economic and education gaps so vast, do we see any similar arguments between then and now? Which form of communication is better in your opinion: oral or written expression/debate?
ReplyDeleteI personally feel that written communication is much more important now than back then, when public debates were so common. We still have public debates, but we live in a world that is mainly written, or typed, on social media sites. The ability to write as a form of communication is now more important than ever. For me personally, I also find special value in writing, not only as a creative writer, but just as a normal student who knows how important it is.
-David Sweeney
ReplyDeleteMedia-multitasking plays a role within "cancel culture" because people can see something and spread information faster than they could before. Say someone makes a YouTube supposively "exposing" another youtuber for something that he/she has done wrong. The original youtuber’s fan base would watch the video and most likely take their side on the issue even if it is either
A) Not the full story
B) A full blown lie.
The video then gets spread from person to person and pretty much ruins everything for that second youtuber even if they didn’t deserve it. Family turns against them, their job is ruined, and any chances of getting another goes down the drain.