Mass Media Slide Presentations

Video: Media Literacy

Period 7: Prepare for your Media Presentations. 

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 
• 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 
• Alexander Graham Bell & the telephone
• George Eastman & film
• The Digital Era: 1930's through 1990's (the rise of computers/internet, etc.)
• Tim Berners-Lee & the World Wide Web
• Vic Hayes & Wi-Fi 

Rubrics & expectations

Use Google slides to incorporate your answer:

1. Find out (and be able to explain) what your topic is.
2. Research specific interesting details (not all details!) about your subject.
3. Research how your subject influenced or impacted technology that came after it (convergence). 
4. 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).

Share your Google slideshow with me on Google Classroom before you present.

PERIOD 8: We will begin our media presentations. If we do not complete these today, we will complete them next class. 

HOMEWORK: Read the rest of Chapter 1. Answer the ?'s posted in Google Classroom for Monday.