Teachingmedialiteracy.com

by Beach, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780807747445
• ISBN10: 0807747440
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-30
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

The Internet offers enormous possibilities for teachers who include discussion of media arts in their courses. However, without expert guidance, it is difficult for instructors to know how to use the Web most effectively. Here, at last, is the resource that teachers need.

Author Biography

Richard Beach is Professor of English Education at the University of Minnesota

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: The Book and the Website	p. ix
Advantages of Using the Web	p. ix
Critical Analysis of the Media	p. x
Using the Book's Website	p. x
Goals for Media Literacy Instruction	p. 1
Justifying Media/Film Study in the Curriculum	p. 2
A Teaching Idea: Analyzing Media Coverage of Diseases And Epidemics	p. 5
Summary	p. 8
Website Resources for Teaching Media Literacy	p. 9
Digital Media Tools	p. 11
Adolescents' Uses of New Digital Media	p. 11
Literacies Acquired Through Use of Digital Media	p. 12
Learning to Make Connections	p. 12
Blogs, Vlogs, and Wikis	p. 12
Video Games and Problem-Solving Strategies	p. 14
Creating and Building Social Relationships in Digital Spaces	p. 16
A Teaching Idea: Using a Chat Room to Foster Discussion in the Literature Classroom	p. 17
Critical Inquiry Learning Through Webquests	p. 18
Further Online Resources for Integrating the Web into Media Studies	p. 20
Summary	p. 20
Film Techniques	p. 21
Visual Literacy: Starting with the Still Image	p. 22
Teaching Film Techniques	p. 23
Exploring Film Technique Through Video Production	p. 25
A Teaching Idea: Creating Short Movies or Commercials	p. 25
Using Animation	p. 26
Making Videos	p. 27
Film History: Putting Techniques in Historical Context	p. 27
Television History	p. 29
Viewing Films in Class	p. 30
A Teaching Idea: Evaluating Film Clips	p. 30
Resources on Film Study	p. 32
Summary	p. 32
Critical Approaches to Media Texts	p. 33
Adopting Different Approaches	p. 33
Applying Critical Perspectives	p. 34
A Teaching Idea: Interrupting Consumer "Feed"	p. 35
A Teaching Idea: The Opportunity Disaster Provides: From NoN-Fiction to Literary Theory to Poetry	p. 39
Psychoanalytic Theories: Subjective Desire	p. 40
A Teaching Idea: Defining "World" in a World Literature Class	p. 42
Summary	p. 43
Media Representations	p. 45
Teaching Analysis of Media Representations	p. 46
Representations of Social Groups or Categories	p. 47
A Teaching Idea: Interrogating Gender Stereotypes	p. 48
A Teaching Idea: Film Styles and Social Critiques	p. 50
Additional Web Resources for Media Representations	p. 53
Summary	p. 54
Media Ethnography Studies	p. 55
What Do Media Ethnographers Study?	p. 56
Conducting Media Ethnographies	p. 58
Sites for Media Ethnography Studies	p. 59
Research Methods for Conducting Media Ethnographies	p. 62
Summary	p. 64
Genres	p. 65
Choosing an Approach to Genre Study	p. 66
Applying Different Approaches	p. 67
A Teaching Idea: Engaging Students in Active Viewing and Thinking	p. 67
Different Genre Types	p. 68
Comics and Graphic Novels	p. 75
Popular Music	p. 76
Summary	p. 76
Advertising	p. 77
A Broader Definition of Advertising Instruction	p. 77
Advertising in a Consumer Culture	p. 78
Advertising as the Source of Media Content	p. 78
Socialization of Children as Consumers	p. 79
Semiotic Analysis	p. 79
Techniques of Persuasion	p. 80
A Teaching Idea: Analyzing Persuasion in Ads	p. 80
Critical Discourse Analysis	p. 81
Idealized Gender Images	p. 83
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Adolescents	p. 84
The Pharmaceutical Industry	p. 84
Advertising on the Web	p. 85
Marketing in Schools	p. 85
Political Advertising	p. 85
Product Placements and "Advertainments"	p. 86
Creating or Parodying Ads	p. 86
A Teaching Idea: Producing Television Ads	p. 86
Summary	p. 87
News and Documentaries	p. 89
News Analysis	p. 90
News Access	p. 91
Corporate Influences	p. 92
A Teaching Idea: Monitoring Racial Bias in the News	p. 94
Producing Classroom/School Newspapers	p. 94
Television News	p. 94
A Teaching Idea: Analyzing Television News	p. 95
Radio News	p. 98
Documentaries	p. 98
A Teaching Idea: Analysis of a Documentary, Hoop Dreams	p. 98
Summary	p. 100
Integrating Film and Other Media into the Curriculum	p. 101
Comparing and Contrasting Different Media Forms	p. 102
A Teaching Idea: Classroom Applications for Film Adaptations of Literature	p. 102
Teaching Strategies for Interpreting and Constructing Texts	p. 104
A Teaching Idea: Using Analysis of Print Journalism to Explore Literature	p. 107
Designing Media Literacy Units	p. 109
Evaluation and Assessment of Learning	p. 110
Exemplary Media Literacy Curricula	p. 110
Summary	p. 111
Film and Television Series References	p. 113
Print References	p. 119
Index	p. 127
About the Author	p. 134
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