The New Media Literacies
Social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today's participatory culture.
Buy Me That: Helping Kids Understand Advertising
In 1990, HBO, in a collaboration with Consumer Reports Television, aired the first of three half-hour specials about children and advertising. The programs pulled back the curtain on many of the techniques and tricks used in TV commercials. Since the programs were clearly teaching "media literacy" the programs became popular with teachers and media educators alike. Alas, the videos are no longer available, although some libraries may still have them on the shelves. Now, here, for the first tim
Food Ad Tricks: What You Don't Know About Food Commercials
In 1990, HBO, in a collaboration with Consumer Reports Television, aired the first of three half-hour specials about children and advertising. The programs pulled back the curtain on many of the techniques and tricks used in TV commercials. Since the programs were clearly teaching "media literacy" the programs became popular with teachers and media educators alike. Alas, the videos are no longer available, although some libraries may still have them on the shelves. Now, here, for the first tim
Deconstructing A Television Commercial: Media Literacy
Here is a classic mobile (cell) phone advertisement, which can be incorporated into media literacy instruction to teach the techniques of persuasion as well as the techniques of production. I have created a companion lesson plan which can be found here: (run time :59)
http://www.frankwbaker.com/deconstructing_a_tv_commercial.htm
Mississippi Map
This National Geographic maps allows students to explore the relative location of places in Mississippi and Mississippi's relative location to other states.
Careers in Film, Television and Animation
VERAa Academy of Animation tries hard to communicate education & spread awareness of 3d Animation mainly for Production.This video quickly demonstrates some of the skills as well as technical skills that you will need to work in this business. (1:00)
05 - Ball & String
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Turning Dunes into Architecture
Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself. Magnus Larsson hopes to build new structures in the desert -- by using bacteria to turn shifting sand into a solid mass. Run time 11:44.
Legislative and Presidential Politics
Democracy entails a complicated process of dynamic interactions between diverse actors pursuing often-conflicting interests. Politics in a democratic system is thus naturally messy, complicated, and confusing. This is exemplified most clearly by the two national institutions, i.e., legislature and the Presidency.
Ladder Safety
This is a ladder safety video originally produced for A1 Fiberglass employees. The goal with this instructional video was to present safety in a fun/entertaining way. Run time 05:39.
Barroso makes the case for conclusion of Doha Round
The world should embrace free trade and repudiate protectionism, urges José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, adding that completing the Doha Round on global trade would send a “very important signal” that free trade is vital in lifting the international economy from the current deep recession.
The promise of India
The day before she was to launch her new company, Maya Hari found that she was expecting her first baby. She decided to put the launch on hold. Two years later, in August 2008, Stylkist was set up, but this came just days before Lehman Brothers went under and the financial meltdown began.
How Earthworks Trains Teenagers to Grow Food
John Burrous shows you around the Earthworks training program for teenagers, a program that teaches them to grow organic vegetables and gain skills. Run time 04:35.
Listening Quiz #9
Improve English listening skills with a short story that is read called
"Johnny the Trouble Maker" There is a blank screen during the reading of the story. After the short story is read the presenter asks five questions to test listening skills. Questions and answers can be found at: www.eslmastery.wordpress.com
Listening Quiz 11
Improve English listening skills with a short story that is read called
"The Smith's and the Thieves" There is a blank screen during the reading of the story. After the short story is read the presenter asks five questions to test listening skills. Questions and answers can be found at: www.eslmastery.wordpress.com
Conversations with Michael Dukakis: The Manager and the Chief Political Executive
Leadership and the Public Manager
Sponsored by Northeastern University's Master of Public Administration Program (http://www.polisci.neu.edu/graduate/master_public/)
Interviewer: Marion Mason
Video Production: Nick Dantzer, MPA'12
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" by Robert Frost (poetry reading)
This was written in 1934
The old picture of lumberjacks comes from this site:
http://www.antiquephotographics.com/Format%20Types/Tintypes/occupationalstt.htm
The Chopping Block - Jesslyn Fraser
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-chopping-block-jesslyn-fraser.html
Plenty of analysis here:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/tramps.htm
Out of the mud two strangers came
And caught me splitting wood in the yard,
And one of them put me off my aim
By hailing cheerily "Hit them
Documentary: The Adolf Hitler Schools (Part 1 of 6)
Part 1 of this documentary talks about how Hitler's school was started and the education they would learn to be the Master Race. Quotes and videos of Hitler and the German peoples' desire and methods to create this Pure Race by brainwashing the children and how these non-thinkers were used.
Gray Langur Monkeys
This short video is all about the Gray Langur Monkeys of India. Travel
with the explore team of explore.org as they document these incredible
creatures, native all across India. They can be spotted in the jungle,
countryside, or rooftops and streets of the city. Enjoy!
"Infections, Transmissions, Cultures: the AIDS Scandals of 1990s Japan and the Genesis of 'J-Horror'
Lecture by Brian Bergstrom, PhD candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. From the "Epidemics Then & Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World," the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the Graham School of General Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center f
