Mass Media Technology Slideshow Project

Mass Media Slide Presentation Topic. Choose and sign up for one of the following slideshow presentation topics. 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 for your project:

Use Google slides or Prezi to incorporate your answer (remember to make your presentation PUBLIC so anyone can access and see your work!):

What should you know about your topic?

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. If you have more than one invention to cover, please include a separate slide for each invention!
• 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 in your presentation 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 15 words on a slide! (Your overall project grade will be affected if you have more than 15...!)
• Use note cards for your presentation details about your subject matter. You may use as many note cards or your notes as you need to explain your subject and invention to your audience (us).
• You will prepare and present your "presentation" in class next week.

HOMEWORK: None. Continue to create your slideshow. Prepare your notes for a presentation next class.