|
web links |
Media Literacy Curriculum Standards, Curriculum, Justification
|
MCREL media literacy standards for grades 6-12 for:
Viewing
Media |
Renee Hobbs, Viewing
and Representing: Media Literacy in Texas critically analyzing
media representations
|
Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho, Media
Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship
|
Hobbs & Frost (1999; 2003). Study on the effects
of media instruction on reading/writing test scores
interact.uoregon.edu
mpls.k12.mn.us |
Visual literacy activities |
International
Visual Literacy Association
|
Visual
Literacy resource links
|
Visual
Arts Topics Index
|
Visual
Resource Library
|
Marist
College - Visual Literacy Links
|
University
of Nebraska, Lincoln - Visual Literacy Collaboration
|
Visual
Literacy and the Net
|
Digital
Images and the 'New' Visual Literacy
|
Open
Directory Project - Visual Literacy
|
Visual
Literacy Exercises
|
Visual
Literacy in the Age of Digital Photographic Reproduction
|
2Learn
Teacher Tools: Visual Literacy
|
University
of Iowa Communication Studies Resources: Visual Communication |
Course
Projects and Issues
|
Visual
Arts Young Viewers Index
|
Visual
Studies
|
Resources
for teaching with photography
|
Education
Video Center
|
The
Alliance for Community Media site
|
For other student documentary-production sites:
Children’s
Media Project
Global
Action Project
Teaching
Intermedia Literacy Tools
Media
Alliance
Bay
Area Video Coalition
Media
Arts Center, Seattle
Asian
Media Access, Metropolitan State University,
St. Paul, Minnesota
Multimedia
Library: hundreds of QuickTime productions that illustrate documentary
techniques
Intime
teacher Video: students create an iMovie documentary on environmental
health
Intime
teacher Video: students create a CD-ROM documentary about Manson,
Iowa based on photos, interviews
Street
Level Youth Video
PBS:
Listen-Up Youth Media Network
Document
Durham: Neighborhoods Projects
The
Library of Congress: The American Memory digital collection
Pics
for Learning: lots of digital images
Hanover
2000 Worlds Fair: examples of 360 degree QT shots of exhibition
buildings
Video:
students using digital photos to create a montage of their school
Literacy
through Photography
PBS P.O.V. documentary, Borders,
video diaries of adolescents living on the Mexican border
digital cameras and photography as art
TechTalk:
KTCA program: video on using digital cameras
Photo-Seminars.com
Curtin’s
Short Courses in Digital Photography
Kodak
online photographic tutorials
Kodak
online guide to better pictures
BetterPhoto.com
New
York Institute of Photography
Photography
Basics
Digital
Image Basics
The
Art of Photography
Digital
Photography Tips
The
rules of composition
The
American Museum of Photography |
Media Education Organizations |
Alliance
for a Media Literate America
|
Action
Coalition for Media Education
|
Center
for Media Literacy
|
Media
Literacy Clearinghouse
|
Media
Literacy Online Project
|
National
Telemedia Council
|
The
New Mexico Media Literacy Project
|
Project
Look Sharp
|
The
New Mexico Media Literacy Project
|
Media
Education Organization: European organization
|
Media
Literacy Review, University of Oregon: lots of resources
|
The
Media Literacy Clearinghouse: lots of resources
|
The
National Telemedia Council: America’s oldest media literacy
organization
|
Alliance
for Media Literate America: active media education organization
(also deals with critical pedagogy perspectives).
|
Columbia
Journalism Review: critical analysis of journalism
|
Media
Awareness
|
Media
Education (Britain)
|
Alliance
for Media Literate America
|
MediaChannel
|
NYTimes
media literacy lessons
|
Ontario
Media Literacy
|
U
Conn Media Literacy links
|
Popular Culture sites |
Popular
Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis
|
Sarah
Zupko’s Cultural Studies Center: Popcultures.com
|
Popular
Culture Magazine
|
Cultural
Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture |
Images:
a journal of film and popular culture
|
Manchester
Institute for Popular Culture
|
University
of Iowa Department of Communications Studies: Popular Culture |
Popular
culture library: Bowling Green University
|
Russell
Nye Popular Culture Collection: Michigan State University Library:
Popular Culture Vertical File (PCVF)
|
Critical pedagogy and media studies |
Critical
Pedagogy on the Web
|
Definitions
of Critical Media Literacy
|
Critical
Pedagogy: Who has power and why?
|
Douglas Kellner, Media
Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society
|
Martin
Ryder: critical theorists: lots of links
|
Cultural
Studies database
|
Guerrilla
Media: media projects based on social justice
|
Media
Reform: critical analysis of issues of media ownership
|
Action
Coalition for Media Education: lots of useful resources
|
The
Center for Public Integrity: watchdog organization on the media
|
FAIR:
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
|
Freedom
Forum: Focus on free speech/1st Amendment rights
|
The
Independent Media Center
|
The
Media Channel
|
k.i.s.s.
of the panopticon (Keep it simple stupid): cultural studies/critical
theory perspectives on the media
|
The
Media Monopoly Index
|
21st
Century Literacies
|
The
Learning for the 21st Century Report
|
Media
Literacy as Literacy Education (Winston Emery and Lee Rother,
Screen Education)
|
David Jonassen “mindtools”
|
The
Media Workshop
|
The
Integration of Technology Across the Middle School Curriculum
|
Lemke, J. L. (in press). Travels
in hypermodality. Visual Communication. |
Nancy Patterson’s sites with student work
using Storyspace™ a hypertext authoring tool
The
America Web
Nancy
Patterson's classroom
ACE
online
|
Storyspace™ publisher, Eastgate
Software
|
For examples of hypertext fiction, see the Reading Room at Eastgate |
Robert
Coover’s hypertext fiction
|
DUSTY—“Digital
Underground Storytelling for Youth,” adolescents create
and display multimedia digital stories consisting of a narrative
|
Zines:
The
Book of Zines
The
Etext Archives
Google
Directory: E-zines |
Blogging sites
bogdex.net
blogger.com
weblogs.com
livejournal.com
globeofblogs.com |
Using
blogs to Teach Writing
|
Educational
Bloggers Network
|
Scott
Hatch’s webquest on using blogging to teach writing
|
Using
blogs in education
|
Joan Cone , High School English, El Cerrito, CA, dealing with the challenge of student achievement in her detracked AP English class |
Sample chapter on evaluation and assessment: Kathleen Strickland, James Strickland, Engaged in Learning Teaching English, 6-12 , Boynton/Cook |
Encouraging Student Teachers to Document Reflective Practice |
Documenting student learning in outcomes-based education School of Information Technology and Communications Design, CSU Monterey Bay |
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Integrative Studies |
Video/computer games |
Google:
links to video game sites
|
Clips/trailers
of video games
|
Game
Nation television program: reviews/discussions
|
Yahoo:
free games
|
Computer
Games: online games
|
Apple:
game trailers/clips
|
Electronic
Arts: major games producer
|
The
Sims
|
SONY
Playstation
|
Games
Domain
|
Computer
Simulation games
|
Game
Culture: articles on cultural aspects of games
|
Computer
Games Magazine
|
GamesStudies:
journal of research on games
|
Center
for Computer Game Research, University of Copenhagen
|
Digital
Games Research Association
|
Digital
Games Research Conference, 2003
|
Game
Culture and Technology Lab, University of California, Irvine
|
Discussion
of a documentary on video games
|
New Media Studies |
Institute
for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Center
for Cyberculture Studies
|
New
Media Studies
|
Journal
of New Media & Culture
|
Center
for History and the New Media, George Mason University
|
Columbia
Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Columbia University
|
The
New Literacies Archive: Readingonline.org
|
Students
Find their Voices through Multimedia: uses of multimedia to
express ideas |
Yahooligans:
Evaluating Websites as accessible, accurate, appropriate, and appealing
|
Evaluating
websites: Cornell University
|
NeTutor
Tutorial: Evaluating Websites
|
Resources for evaluating websites, Virginia
Tech University Library
|
Citing
Websites
|
Critical
Analysis of a Website
|
Critical
Analysis of Three Websites |
David Thornberg, Building
Critical Thinking Skills for Online Resea |
Web-based Studies/Critical Analysis of the
Web |
Grokker
uses existing search engines
|
Web
Evaluation for Intermediate Grades
|
Web
Evaluation for Secondary Grades
|
Checklist
for an Informational Web Page |
Evaluation
Criteria: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly |
Evaluating
Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tat |
Web
Page Evaluation Worksheet
|
Critical
Evaluation Survey: Middle School Level
|
Web
page evaluation
|
Evaluating
Web Sites
|
Evaluating
Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask |
Evaluating
web pages
|
The
Good, The Bad &The Ugly
|
|
Centers/Organizations on the Internet |
The
Internet Studies Center, University of Minnesota
|
Center
for Digital Discourse and Culture, VPI
|
Center
for Online Addiction
|
The
Internet and Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
|
Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies, University of Washington
|
Association
of Internet Researchers
|
|
Magazines/Journals about the Internet |
Journal
of Online Behavior
|
SIMILE:
Students in Media & Information Literacies
|
Wired
Magazine
|
Multimedia
and Internet@Schools
|
Internet
Magazine (UK)
|
.Net (UK)
|
ComputerWorld |
Byte
|
Internet
World
|
Digital
Video Magazine
|
PCWorld
|
|
Using Technology Tools |
Actden
site: using technology tools
|
Creating Web pages:
writingproject.org
teachers.net
teacherweb.com
|
Web
Design for the Mass Media (online book)
|
Online
Peer-Learning Environments, Reading Online |
E-portfolios |
4teachers
site
|
TrackStar
Track maker: organize your searches of URL’s
|
Webteacher:
training modules
|
GLEF:
technology-integration module
|
ALPS:
resources, scaffolds, and contexts for building unit plans
|
Apple
Learning Exchange
|
University
of Illinois “inquiry” site
|
Allen
Webb-Carey’s site: tools relevant for English teachers |
Western
Michigan University: Teaching English with Technology site
|
George Landow, Hypertext site
|
Victorian
Web Site
|
postcolonial
literature
|
Janet Murray, Hamlet
on the Holodeck (MIT Press, 1998)
|
David Rose and Anne Meyer, Teaching
Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning,
(ASCD, 2002)
|
VideoPaper
Builder 2™
|
Inspiration™
inspiration.com
tomsynder.com
|
Noodletools™
noodletools.com
|
Internet
101
|
Educational
Uses of the Internet
|
Global
School Network
|
Teaching
and the Internet
|
Weaving
the Web into K-12 Education |
The
World Wide Web Consortium
|
Educause
Review current developments in higher education uses of
information technology |
Valorie Stokes, Exploring
Literacy in Cyberspace: Learning to critically analyze websites
|
Tech
Talk: Program produced by Digital Media Center, University of
Minnesota (click on “episodes”)
|
Teacher
Wisdom Stories: Cautions and Recommendations for Using Computer-related
Technologies for Literacy Instruction (from Readingonline) |
Hypertext
on the Big Screen
|
Course
on hypertext and literature
|
Inquiry
unit on the Inquiry Web Site: How does hypertext change literacy
practices? |
Course
on Reading and Writing in a Digital Age focusing on Hypertext
|
University
of Iowa Communication Studies: lots of links on hypertext theory |
Digital
Narrative, University of Maryland |
Center
for Digital Storytelling
|
Hyperhorizons,
Duke University site on hypertext fiction
|
Adaptations
of Print to Hypertext
|
Introduction
to the Visual Arts, Laura Ruby, University of Hawaii
|
Computer-Mediated
Learning
|
English
Through the Internet
|
Computer-Supported
Collaborative Learning
|
A
technology-infused English curriculum
Coogan, P. (2000). International Electronic Journal For Leadership
in Learning, 4(13)
|
Project-braced
Learning: GLEF: The George Lucas Educational Foundation
|
Ted
Nellen’s Cyber English
|
Technology
integration: GLEF: The George Lucas Educational Foundation
|
Hall Davidson, Meaningful
Digital Video for Every Classroom |
Hypertext fiction
Stuart Molthrop, Hegirscope
Stephanie Strickland, The
Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot
Deena Larson, Stained
Word Window
Webquest:
Hypertext fiction
|
|
Organizations that Promote Technology Uses
in Schools |
Belvedere
|
Global
School Net
|
KidLink
|
Georgia
Tech
|
KIE
|
Computer
@ Learning Partner
|
EduTech
|
CaMILE
|
CoVis
|
ICLS
|
INSYS
|
Webquest collections (mostly English)
SESD
webquest
Grades
9-12 English/Language Arts
James
Rainville's ESL Page, Webquests for learning, the links page
Language
Arts Web Quests |
Webquests: literature
Poetry,
Amanda Bekkum and Michelle Schneekloth
Beth O’Hara, To
Kill a Mockingbird
The
Great Gatsby
The
Crucible
Of
Mice and Men
The
Scarlet Letter
Julius
Caesar
Romeo
and Juliet
The
Bluest Eye
The
House on Mango Street
Holes
|
Media
literary webquests
|
Advertising
Cyberagenda
Advertising
Advertisers:
Interpreterse of out drems?
Advertising
in Schools
Analyzing
Advertising
|
Radio
production
|
|
WebQuest Design Process |
Creating webquests:
WebQuest
Training Materials
Adapting
and Enhancing Existing WebQuests
Concept
to Classroom
Creating
a WebQuest
Using
a WebQuest in your Classroom
The
WebQuest Design Process
ozline.com:
WebQuests &more
ozline.com:
The WebQuests Design Process |
|
Video-streaming software |
Realplayer |
Quicktime
Player |
Windows
Media Player |
|
On-line Video Clips |
Atom
Films |
On-line
documentaries: some free |
Hollywood movie trailers/shorts
Apple
- Movie Trailers
Hollywood.com
Movies.com
IFilm.com
RottenTomatoes.com
CountingDown.com
Lycos
Video
|
|
On-line short films (some explicit material in some
sites)
Microcinema
International
internet
film community
Undergroundfilm.org
http://movies.yahoo.com/shorts/
FilmWatcher.com
Hypnotic
http://www.realgoodmovies.com/index_mov.html
Shockwave.com
|
Pixar
Films: Animation
|
Move
Flix: free movies
|
BreakTV:
clips from TV shows
|
Video
clips
|
Clips
from ABC News
|
50
years of Coke advertisements
|
Streaming
video from Eastview High School: multimedia classes
|
Video Clips of teachers teaching:
technology
language
arts (some overlap with technology)
|
The
PBS program, The Power of Stills
|
|
Film Techniques |
Bordwell and Thompson’s (2004) Film
Art, An Introduction (7th ed.)—for a sample chapter
on Film Production, Distribution, and Exhibition |
Louise Giannetti (2002), Understanding
Movies, (Prentice Hall, 9th ed.) |
James Monaco (2000), How
to View a Film, (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.) |
British Film Institute. (2002). Introduction
to film language. [CD Rom]. London: British Film Institute. |
Glossaries of film terms
actf.com
A
Glossary of Film Terms
Useful
Vocabulary for Film Studies
All
Movie Guide
Film
terms |
Geocities
film site: excellent links to different aspects of film/production |
Thinkquest:
excellent site for introduction to film production |
Cyber
Film School
|
BBC:
Video production skills
|
Director
in the Classroom: lots of links to video production resources |
lots
of links to film technique resources |
English
Online: Making Movies |
Examples
of use of color and light |
Examples
of hard and soft lighting
|
Abie Lane Benítez-Quinones Luz: Poetry
and the Physics of Light Yale/New Haven |
Different
editing techniques |
Tom Barrance, Media Education Wales: Making your film make sense: uses of editing |
Editing
using IMovie™
|
Daniel Anderson: Integrating
digital stills into writing about “The Occurrence at Owl Creek
Bridge” |
Heather Ross: Using
IMovie productions in writing classes |
Apple
Learning Interchange: ILife productions (on-line examples of
student productions) |
Apple
Learning Interchange: Videography in the Classroom |
PBS
Listen Up! Youth video production site
|
Pier Marton, Washington
University,Video Production
|
Education
Video Center: clips of ten student produced videos
|
Click
here for examples of different uses of sound |
Film
Sound Theory
|
Film
Sound Design
|
Film
Sound History |
Film
Sound Glossary |
Lots
of links on film sound |
Bela Balazs: Theory
of the Film: Sound |
Webquest:
analysis of soundtrack for 1968 Romeo and Julie |
Filmmaking
101: Writing a Script |
Published
screenplays of current films |
Interactive
Simulation: creating a script |
Scriptware:
scriptwriting software: free demo
|
Sriptwriting shareware, ScreenForge
|
Sriptwriting shareware, ScreenPro
97 2.0a
|
Drew’s
Script-o-rama
|
Atomic
Learning’s StoryBoard Pro™
|
Directors
Board: free storyboard software
|
Ian
Pegler: free storyboard/scriptwriting software
|
Main
Studios: free storyboard software
|
Storyboarding software, freeware, Version
2, Springboard |
Creating
Storyboards |
Laurie Brooker: How
to Draw Storyboards |
Acting
with a Pencil: Storyboarding Your Movie |
On-line samples of storyboards:
Ted
B Studio
Child:
a film based on a children’s book
Storyboards
Next To Film
Gerald
Forton storyboad
|
Webquest:
Film Production: deals with all aspects of making a film |
View the process of making a student film, Fat
Man and Little Boys
|
Links related to film technique:
The
Multimedia Project: Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
Imperica
Eejit's
Film Lingo
MediaEd.org.uk |
Annenberg:
How Are Films Made? |
CineMedia:
links to over 16,000 film sites |
Nathan
Snanza’s film project
|
Sofia:
Study of Film as Internet Application |
|
Film Review Sites |
Rottentomatoes
|
Movie
Review Query Engine
|
Internet
Movie Date Base
|
Check
the Grid
|
All
Watchers
|
MetaCritic
|
Critics.com:
compiles/combines ratings of 15 critics
|
Roger
Ebert
|
The”Greatest
Films” lists
|
Moviefone
|
Hollywood.com: A major site with a lot of trailers, including full-screen trailers
|
Open
Directory Project: thousand of links on film:
|
Facets:
DVD/video catalogue
|
DVD Reviews
dvdreview.com
dvdcorner.net
|
|
Film Study Resources |
Australian
Film Institute
|
American
Film Institute
|
The
British Film Institute
|
The
Greatest Films
|
Film-Media-Resources
|
The
Cinema Collection: hundreds of links to different aspects
of film study
|
Study
of Film as Internet Application (SOFIA)
|
Film.com
|
Filmsite
|
Film
and television studies
|
The
film lover's 100
|
Indie
Film Guide |
CHUM:
Bravo!'s Scanning The Movies Study Guides |
Robert
E. Yahnke: Summaries/resources for teaching specific films |
Metro
Magazine: study guides to Australian films
|
Teach
with Movies: ways of integrating movies into the curriculum
|
Jo Flack, Teaching Film as Text
|
Ontario
Media Literacy: Teaching specific films
|
University
of Iowa Communication Studies: links on film studies
|
Voices
of the Shuttle: film studies links
|
National
Film Board of Canada
|
Director
in the Classroom: links to production sites/resources
|
On-line
digital video sites |
Ian
Douglas, Film and Meaning: on-line book |
A
secondary teachers' guide to using film and television |
|
Film Journals/Magazines |
Cinemagazine
|
Cineaste
|
Senses
of Cinema
|
Images:
Journal of Film and Popular Culture
|
Film
Quarterly
|
Jump
Cut: a Review of Contemporary Cinema
|
POST
SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities
|
Screen
|
Literature
Film Quarterly
|
Sight
and Sound
|
Film
Comment
|
Bright
Lights Film Journal
|
Cinema
Journal
|
Kinema
|
Scope:
An On-line Journal of Film Studies
|
Wide
Angle
|
Film
& History
|
Cinema
Scope
|
Film
International
|
The
Film Journal
|
Flicker
|
Framework
|
Kinoeye:
New Perspectives on European Film
|
Offscreen
|
Reverse
Shot Online
|
Talking
Pictures
|
Essential
Cinema: Journal of Independent Film
|
Millennium
Film Journal
|
MovieMaker
Magazine
|
Canadian
Journal of Film Studies
|
Fade
In Magazine
|
|
Film/Television History |
National
Museum of Photography, Film, and Television
|
Tim
Dirks: Film History: organized by each year since 1902
|
Robert
E. Yahnke, Cinema History: one chapter for each decade
|
Paul Burns: The Complete History of the Discover of Cinematography
|
Bill
Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
|
The
History Channel: summary of film history, with links to directors |
Orson
Welles
|
Television
History sites
|
Television
History Archive, Center for Study of Popular Television, Syracuse
University
|
Television
History
|
The
History of Television
|
Museum
of Television and Radio
|
The
Museum of Television, Toronto
|
Hitchcock:
British Film Institute |
Museum
of the Moving Image
|
|
Animation |
Shortbuzz,
short films on line
|
Eveo,
a streamed video site
|
Atom films, streamed short films and animation
AtomFilms.com
BijouFlix-bijoucafe.com
film.com
ifilm.net
mdfkr.com
NewVenue.com
thesync.com
dfilm.com
resfest.com
6161.com
conduitfest.com
onedotzero.com
darklight-filmfestival.com
movieweb.com
|
Stop
Motion Animation
|
How
to make a movie with digital stills |
Clay
Animation Home Page
|
Clay animation
sfsu.edu
animateclay.com
|
Hotwired,
online animation and tutorial site
|
Getting
started in Animation
|
3D
animation workshop tutorials |
3D
Studio Max tutorials |
Aardman
online
|
Animation
World Network
|
Animation
Library: free on-line GIF images
|
Hanna
Barbera cartoons
|
Top
animation films |
lots
of links to classic animation films |
Disney feature animation films
bcdb.com
dir.yahoo.com
|
Original
cels employed in Disney films
|
Lots
of Disney-film links/clip art
|
The
Simpsons
|
Cartoon
Network
|
Fox
network cartoon shows
|
Kelly Eick, Gender
Stereotypes in Children's Television Cartoons (1998) |
Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, January 28, 2001:
“Violence
Finds a Niche in Children’s Cartoons” |
|
Film Adaptations |
Case
studies of film adaptations
|
Early
film adaptations |
The
American Short Story series, Part II (videos) |
Cable
in the Classroom: Shakespeare adaptations
|
Tanya Gough, 10
Shakespeare DVD’s, Shakespeare Magazine
|
Mary Ciccone: teaching
an on-line "Shakespeare in Film" course through Virtual
High School, Shakespeare Magazine |
Mr.
William Shakespeare (lots of links to Shakespeare sites)
|
Shakespeare
High (on-line discussion, student resources)
|
Complete
works of Shakespeare
|
Webquest: Macbeth
|
Bravo
Channel: Page to Screen (program features
adaptations of specific books)
|
American
Film Institute:
examples of student-produced adaptations of 1984, Lord of the
Flies, King Lear, Julius Caesar, and The Crucible—includes
storyboards, outlines, video clips, and reflections.
|
Fiction
into Film
|
MacBeth on Film: British Film Institute
|
Teach
with Movies Lesson Guide: Hamlet
|
|
Advertising |
American
Advertising Museum
|
Ad
Access Project, Duke University
|
Media,
Advertising, and Society, Barbara Breder, University of Iowa
|
Advertising
and the End of the World
|
“Advertising
at the Edge of the Apocalypse” by Sut Jhally |
Adbusters magazine
|
The
Advertising Century
|
Harper’s
Weekly: 19th Century Advertising |
The
Ad*Access Project: 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955 |
National
Museum of American History: advertising archives
|
The
Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design
|
Archives:
top 100 ad campaigns
|
Examples of early ads:
admuseum.org
mediahistory.umn.edu
|
Lesson:
The Consumer Economy |
Media
Awareness Network guides: Advertising and consumption |
Advertising
and consumption
|
Children
and advertising
|
Semiotic
analysis of magazine ads for men’s fragrances by Alexander
Clare
|
PBS:
Food Advertising Tricks |
Education Media Foundation video with Naomi Klein: No
Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance |
webquest:
propoganda techniques
|
webquest:
What is the Truth: propaganda analysis
|
Adflip:
ads from different decades
|
Dan
Chandler ad analysis
|
The
Big Lie: The Truth about Advertising: lots of other components
|
ad analyses
Advertising
Links
Analyzing
Advertising
AD
Dissection 101 |
webquest:
elements of advertising
|
|
Applying Critical Lenses to Media Texts |
Analysis of Gender |
Click here for further discussion of media and gender discourses
|
Gender
and the media: University of Iowa Communications Department |
Role
models in popular culture related to gender
|
Applications
of gender theory to media
|
Sites
related to feminism
|
Application
of feminist criticism to television
|
Click here for films/videos on women, gender, and feminism
|
For abstracts on the following books, see:
theory.org.uk:
Gender and culture
theory.org.uk:
Queer theory books
|
Non-traditional magazines for females:
Msmagazine.com
sojourner.org
uppitywomen.net
newmoon.org
bluejeanonline.com
teenvoices.com
|
Women’s issues
cybergrrl.com
calarts.edu
womensforum.com
|
Films about and by women:
wmm.com
reelwomen.org
womedia.org
mith2.umd.edu
|
Critiquing gendered media representations:
mergemag.org
www.about-face.org
genderequity.org
mediaandwomen.org
girlsinc.com
mediascope.org
americanart.si.edu
|
Gender
roles in Disney films
|
Adbusters
spoofs of an Obsession ad.
|
Chavanu, B. (1999). Seventeen,
self-Image, and stereotypes. Rethinking schools, 14(2). unit on advertising and media literacy
|
Espinosa, L. (2003). Seventh graders and sexism. Rethinking schools, 17(3). |
Media
Awareness Project: Gender and Tobacco |
Unit: Alison Zimbalist and Javaid Khan, The
New York Times lessons: Sex, Guise, and Video Games: Assessing the
Portrayal of Women in Video Games and Across Entertainment Media |
|
Analysis of Class |
People
Like Us contains a lot of activities related to defining
the meaning of class
|
Click here for an introduction to Marxism by Dino Felluga
|
Greig Henderson and Christopher Brown: Glossary
of Marxist criticism
|
Clck here for extensive material on Marx:
|
John Harms and Douglas Kellner, Toward
A Critical Theory of Advertising
|
Webquest: Effects of the Industrial Revolution |
|
Analysis of Race |
Representations of Asian men and women (see Vanishing
Son (UC Berkeley), and Ally
Mcbeal Bio: Lucy Liu as Ling Woo)
reflect negative perceptions of Asians not trustworthy or mysterious. |
Bibliography: UC Berkeley Library: African
Americans in films |
Bibliography: UC Berkeley Library: Native
Americans in films
|
Bibliography: UC Berkeley Library: Chicanos/Latinos
in films
|
Bibliography: UC Berkeley Library: Jews in films
|
Xenophobia
and portrayals of the other
|
National University course: Representation
and Diversity in the Media
|
University of Iowa Communications Studies site:
representations of racial groups in the media:
uiowa.edu
uoregon.edu
|
lists
of films organized according to racial representations
|
Analysis
of representation of diversity in European media
|
New York Times lesson: Elyse Fischer, “Sufferin'
Stereotypes: Examining Race and Ethnicity as Presented in Children's
Media” |
New York Times lesson: Alison Zimbalist,
Kelly Bird, and Jessica Levine, “TeleVisions
of Race: Examining the Portrayal of Race on Television” |
|
Postmodern |
The
Po-Mo Page: discussion of different aspects of postmodern
theory
|
Click here for an introduction to postmodern theory by Dino Felluga
|
Click here an introduction to postmodern theory by Douglas Kellner
|
Click here for an introduction to postmodern theory by Mary Klages
|
Popculture.org:
lots of theoretical essays on postmodernism
|
The
Simpsons as a postmodern text
|
Postmodernism
and Science Fiction Films
|
The journal, Postmodern
Culture
|
|
Postcolonial |
Edward Said, On
Orientalism |
Edward Said, The Myth of “The Clash of Civilizations” |
For further reading on postcolonial theory:
emory.edu
scholars.nus.edu.sg
|
Jouvert:
A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
|
Webquest: The
British Empire and the Legacy of Colonialism
|
For abstracts of the following books on postcolonial
theory, see the The Untimely Past
|
|
Media Representations |
Urban Neighborhoods |
Betti-Sue Hertz and Lydia Yee Urban Mythologies: The
Bronx Represented Since the 1960 |
My
History is Your History: studies of Chicago neighborhoods
|
Street-Level
Youth Media: Chicago youth study their neighborhoods
|
Webquest: studying an urban neighborhood
|
Radical
Urban Theory
|
Metropolis
Magazine
|
The
Citistates Group
|
|
Suburbia |
Judy
Gill, Dickenson College |
John
Archer, University of Minnesota:
|
Steve Macek, Mall of America, Gale Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
|
Lots
of links on topics related to suburbia
|
Lesson plan: Sprawl:
The National and Local Situation |
|
Studying place/space |
Megasite:
lots of links on place/space
|
Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment (extensive bibliography)
|
Center
for American Places
|
City
Lore; Placematters
|
Sense
of Place
|
Place
Matters Project
|
Literature
and Place site
|
Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment
|
ARC
Place Research Network
|
Pedagogy
of Place Guide
|
Geo-literacy:
Forging New Ground
|
Document
Durham: Neighborhood Projects
|
Exploring
Your Community (grades 6-8)
|
|
Lesson Plans: Studying Places/Spaces |
Sacred
Space: Learning About and Creating Meaningful Public Spaces
|
Perception
of Place |
The
Evolution of Cultural Landscape |
Explore
the Spatial Patterns of Your Hometown |
Cultural
Symbols and the Characteristics of Place |
School
Space: An Analysis of Map Perceptions |
There's
No Place Like Home: Examining Tourism and Cultural Opportunities
in Your State |
Places
in the West |
Spaces
and Places (younger students) |
|
War |
Douglas Kellner, “The
Persian Gulf TV War Revisited”
|
Media
representations and the Iraq War
|
Iraq
Journal: alternative, human images of the Iraq War |
Polly Kellogg, Drawing
on History to Challenge the War, Rethinking Schools |
Christopher Wisniewski, “The
Spectacular War” |
An
extensive filmography of war films
|
Instructional unit: Images
at War (Civil War and World War II)
|
Film
Education: History and Film: representations of World War II |
Film
Education: Violence within Context & Genre |
Exploring The Sound of Music (exploring the role of Maria von
Trapp in World War II)
|
|
Political Issues |
Republican
Party
|
Democratic
Party
|
Green
Party
|
Media
and American Democracy Program: Analyzing television political
ads
|
George
Mason University: research links for analyzing media coverage
of politics |
Project
Vote Smart: polling data links for analyzing public political
opinion |
Webquest: Judith Cramer, Teachers College, Columbia
University: To
Blog or Not to Blog |
Webquest: Sociology
Bytes Politics
|
Webquest: Joe Braunwarth, News Media Webquest
|
Webquest: Cynthia Kirkeby, Watergate:
The Role of Press in Politics
|
Unit: Rachel Klein and Javaid Khan, The
New York Times lessons: Tabloid Traditions: Examining the Relationship
Between Supermarket Tabloids and United States History |
|
Advertising |
Advertising and Gender |
What
a Girl Wants (video clip) |
Killing
Us Softly3 video (video clip)
|
Slim
Hopes (video clip)
|
Submissive
females in advertising
|
Webquest: Images
of Girls and Women
as Portrayed in the Media
|
Webquest: Carol Boehm: Images and Influences
|
Webquest: Dying
to be Thin
|
Tough
Guise Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
|
Media Awareness Network: Advertising
and Male Violence |
Media Awareness Network: Sports
Personalities in Ads |
Wrestling
with Manhood Boys, Bullying & Battering |
Media Scope: Body
Image and Advertising
|
Males
in Ads (lots of useful examples)
|
Males
as Objects (lots of useful examples of objectification of males) |
Webquest: Ann
Jones: Advertising and Image |
Webquest: Jeff
Bailey: Exploring Gender Stereotypes through Shakespeare |
Webquest: How
Do I Look? |
|
Alcohol/Tobacco Advertising |
Deadly
Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco |
Jean Kilbourne, “Targets
of Alcohol Advertising”
|
Education Media Foundation video: Spin
the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol
|
Pack
of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco |
Webquest: Smoking
Awareness |
Webquest: Tobacco
Detectives
|
Webquest: Dangers
of Tobacco Use |
Webquest: Will
You be a Smoker? |
Webquest: Should
Smoking be Illegal? |
Webquest: The
Truth about Tobacco |
For a whole unit on smoking ads, along with some
examples of anti-smoking ads: Deconstructing
Cigarette Ads
|
|
Advertising and Consumerism |
Webquest: cyberganda: advertising on the Web |
Webquest: create
an ad for the Web |
Webquest: Cycertise
Webquest
|
Channel
One
|
Critical analyses/reports on Channel One
commercialalert.org
fair.org (Channel One)
fair.org (Extra! May, 1997)
aap.org
|
Commercialism
in Education Research Unit, Arizona State University |
Citizens
Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools
|
Webquest: Kimberly Colley, School Funding and Commercial Advertising in Schools |
|
Political Advertising |
PBS program, 30
Second Candidate
|
The
American Museum of the Moving Image: The Living Room Candidate (online exhibit of candidates from 1952-2000)
|
Media
and American Democracy: Analyzing a political ad
|
Alliance
for Better Campaigns (improving political advertising)
|
FactCheck:
deceptions in political ads
|
C-Span:
campaign ads for the 2004 Presidential election
|
Common
Cause The Critical Role of Television in Political Campaigns
|
PBS:
Dissect an Ad
|
"Do
the Media Affect the Democratic Process?"
2000-2001
|
Effectiveness
of Negative Political Advertising
|
Webquest: political
advertising
|
|
Parodies of Advertising |
Adbusters
Magazine
|
False
Advertising: A Gallery of Parody
|
Zapavision:
Parodies of ads and movie trailers
|
Unofficial
Calvin Klein Ads Archive
|
Why
Milk—parodies of the Got Milk ads
|
Lampoonery:
ad parodies
|
Teenz247:
parodies of smoking ads
|
Nicknamers:
parodies of branding
|
Funny
Adverts: Spoof Ads
|
|
Webquests: Advertising |
Webquest: creating
ads |
Webquest: Create
an anti-pollution ad |
Webquests: create anti-smoking ads
berksiu.k12.pa.us
longview.k12.wa.us
|
Webquests: Advertising:
Mrs.
Horton's Advertising Web Quest
spidey.sfusd.edu
cedu.niu.edu
wneo.org
olc.spsd.sk.ca
website.education.wisc.edu
et.sdsu.edu
community.k12.mo.us
fullwood.tv
technoteacher.com
42explore.com
|
|
Film/Television Genres |
Types of Genres |
Google:
film genres
|
JahSonic.com:
film genres
|
Science
Daily Encyclopedia: film genres
|
The
Free Dictionary: film genres
|
Moviegoods:
film genres |
For a film genre curriculum: Film Education: Genres:
filmeducation.org
|
Dan
Chandler: an overview of genre approaches to media
|
Film genres
Yahoo
Movie Directory
Film
Genre Page
moviegoods.com
IMDb.com
filmsite.org
|
List of television genres:
Yahoo
UK & Ireland
dmoz.org
news.siteseek.com
|
Resources/readings on film/television genres:
ryerson.ca/mgroup
amelie-themovie.com
|
|
Action/Adventure |
Action/adventure films:
filmsite.org
(action films)
filmsite.org
(adventure films)
IMDb.com
|
50
top adventure films
|
Cop
action films
|
Action/adventure TV shows:
dmoz.org
entertainment.lycos.com
|
|
Western |
Yahoo
Movies Directory
filmsite.org
IMDb.com
lewestern.com
|
|
Crime/Gangster |
Ultimage
Gansgste/Crime films
filmsite.org
IMDb.com
stungunresources.com
|
|
Detective/film-noir genre |
thrillingdetective.com
filmsite.org
dmoz.org
thrillingdetective.com (television)
|
| |
Mystery |
MysteryNet
|
Pamela Green: Sherlock
Holmes: Teaching English through Detective Fiction |
British
Film Institute: Ghost Stories on Film |
Christopher Ingham, The
Murder Mystery
|
Webquest: Who
Killed William Robinson? (an historical mystery)
|
Webquest: Write an historical mystery
|
|
Comedy |
Film comedies
filmsite.org
IMDb.com
phatnav.com
|
Television comedies
entertainment.lycos.com
transparencynow.com
comedy-zone.net
dmoz.org
museum.tv
|
American
Film Institute’s 100 funniest films:
|
The
parody form itself
|
Parody
films
|
Woody Allen sites:
Woody
Allen (geocities.com)
Woody
Allen (members.tripod.com)
3rdmandesigns.co.uk
en.wikipedia.org
sensesofcinema.com
IMDb.com
|
About
Comedy: Movies
|
links
to history of comedy films
|
Satire
Screening Room
|
About
Comedy: TV sitcoms
|
Comedy
Central cable TV show
|
Screwball
Comedy
|
1,302
links to situation comedy shows
|
BBC
sitcoms
|
Dan Ryder, We
Ain’t No Situation Comedy
|
Roy Stafford: Getting
the Joke: Teaching the Comedy Film
|
University of California, Berkeley, Bibliography on Television situation comedy
|
|
Science fiction and fantasy films/television |
Yahoo
Movies Directory: Science Fiction and Fantasy
warwick.ac.uk
magicdragon.com
filmsite.org
Science
Fiction films (users.cs.york.ac.uk)
sffworld.com
sciflicks.com
scifilm.org
Science
Fiction Films (geocities.com)
The
Sci-Fi Movie Page (members.tripod.com)
scifimovies.com
filmsite.org
(fantasy films)
|
Sci-fi
Space
|
Sci-fi
cable channel
|
Science
Fiction Movie Heaven
|
Bright
Lights science fiction film journal
|
Computer
Crowsnest: Science fiction site
|
Courses in science fiction
muohio.edu
umn.edu
|
Webquest: War
of the Worlds: Fear of Invasion
|
Lorna Dils, Science Fiction and the Future
|
Lesson plan: Blade
Runner
|
Guy Walters: Artificial Intelligence in the Cinema
|
Suite
101: Science Fiction and Society
|
University
of California, Berkeley library: Bibliography on science fiction
films
|
Webquest: Anthem:
A Utopian Society
|
Webquest: A Cyber-Science Magazine
|
Webquest: Spaceship Earth
|
Webquest: Frankenstein
|
Webquest: Censorship
and Fahrenheit 451
|
Webquest: Energy
Quest
|
|
Horror/monster |
filmsite.org
imdb.com
Film
Horror Page (angelfire.com)
horrormovies.com
dmoz.org
Yahoo
Directory
Google
Directory
|
All
Horror Movies
|
Horror
Film Compendium
|
Classic
Horror—the history of horror
|
Dark
Universe
|
The
Chamber of Horrors
|
House
of Horrors
|
Dark
Webonline
|
ReelHorror
|
Forever
Horror
|
Suite
101: Horror films: reviews
|
Horror-Wood
magazine
|
University
of California, Berkeley Library: Bibliography on horror films
|
Webquest: Edgar Allan Poe: Father of Horror
|
|
Thriller/spy/heist |
filmsite.org
imdb.com
bbc.co.uk
movieweb.com
cia.gov
Cloak
and Dagger (geocities.com)
|
American
Film Institute: 100 years of thriller films
|
Alfred Hitchcock sites:
hitchcock.tv
mysterynet.com
imdb.com
alfredhitchcock.directorscut.info
hitchcock.nl
tdfilm.com
|
|
Soap opera |
Soap opera programs
dmoz.org
yahoo.com
-Prime_Time_Soaps/
yahoo.com
/Soap_Operas/
|
soap opera fan clubs
Soap
Links (members.aol.com)
soaps.about.com
soapcentral.com
soapoperafan.com
|
|
Reality television |
Reality television shows
dmoz.org
Google
Directory
Yahoo
Directory
realitytvlinks.com
realityblurred.com |
Beth Rowen: History of Reality TV
|
Reality
TV Channel
|
Reality
TV Planet
|
Reality
World TV
|
Reality
News Online
|
Fans
of Reality TV
|
Survivor
|
The
Osbournes
|
Big
Brother
|
The
Amazing Race
|
The
Mole
|
The
Real World
|
American
Idol
|
PBS: In
the Mix: Reality TV for Teens
|
PBS: American
High |
PBS historical reenactment programs
The
1900 House
Frontier
House: living in Montana in 1883
Warrior
Challenge
Manor
House
|
Unit: The
Reality of Reality TV
|
Lesson: The
Reality of Reality TV
|
|
Comics |
Comics
Yahoo!
Entertainment Directory
dmoz.org
History
of Comic Books (geocities.com)
comic-art.com
dereksantos.com
|
Comics
and films
|
Comics2film:
comics that have been made into films
|
Comics.com
|
Links to newspaper comic strips and political cartoons
|
Yahoo:
lots of comic book links
|
Comic
books for young adults
|
Marvel Comics
marvelcomics.com
Yahoo!
Directory: Comic Books >Marvel
|
DC
Comics
|
Webcomics
|
Dark
Horse Comics
|
E-zine:
links to Indy Magazine/independent comics
|
No
Flying No Tights: reviews of graphic novels for teens
|
Beyond
the Funnies: Create Your Own Comics
|
Comics
Font and Lettering
|
Webquest: Comic
Strips
|
David Law: Creating
Comics
|
Webquest: Create
a Super Hero
|
Read/Write/Think
unit: Comics in the Classroom
|
Michigan
State University Library, Comic book genres
|
Grand
Comic Book Database
|
The
Comic Book Homepage
|
Comic
Book Resources
|
Words
and Pictures Virtual Museum
|
James
Branch Cabell Literacy: Comic Arts Collection
|
Michael Rhode: Comics
Research Bibliography
|
Comics
Archive
|
New
York City Comic Book Museum
|
1,043
comic strips/panels
|
145
online comic books
|
Web
Comics
|
online resources/fonts/images
idleworm.com
David A. Law: Creating
Comics
comicbookfonts.com
studiodae.com
balloontales.com
polykarbon.com
hoboes.com
blambot.com
mangaschool.com
|
Robyn Hill, (2002), The Secret Origin of Good
Readers: A Resource Book.
(pdf,
online book).
|
Comics
Worth Reading: reviews
|
Comic
Books for Young Adults
|
Girls
in the Comics
|
National
Association of Comics Art Educators
|
The
Comics Journal
|
Teachers
Guide to Using Professional Cartoonists
|
Study
Guides: Teaching Comics
|
Steve Higgins, Advocating Comics, Broken Frontier |
Comics
blog
|
|
Graphic Novels |
Art
Spiegelman's MAUS: Working-Through The Trauma of the Holocaust |
Jessica Abel: What
is a Graphic Novel? (a visual introduction to the genre) |
Online graphic novels
e-sheep.com
fantagraphics.com
nbmpublishing.com
artbomb.net
|
Best
Graphic Novels Reviewed
|
101 Best Graphic Novels
http://www.bookfinder.us/review6/1561632856.html
|
School
Library Journal: Graphic Novels Roundup |
Gorman, M (2002, August 1). What
Teens Want: 30 Graphic Novels you Can't Live Without. School
Library Journal |
The
Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga
|
Recommended
Graphic Novels for Public Libraries
|
Graphic novel reviews
Graphic
Novel Reviews (geocities.com)
rambles.net |
Manga/Graphic
Novels |
No
Flying No Tights: teen reviews of graphic novels |
Webquest: Net
Force—the uses of graphics on the Web based on graphics
in comic books
|
Chandler-Olcott, K., & Mahar, D. (2001). Considering
genre in the digital literacy classroom. Reading Online,5(4).
(teaching Anime genre forms) |
|
Media Ethnography |
Fan
subculture research |
David
Morley: history of audience research |
Reception
studies of media
|
Dan
Chandler’s Module: The Active Viewer (extensive bibliography)
|
For a glossary of terms used in ethnographic research:
fieldworking.com
|
For a discussion of general methods of different
types of ethnography:
pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
|
For a discussion of methods for studying places
or institutions employed in the very useful first year college composition
textbook, Fieldworking (Cheresi-Smith & Sunstein, 2002).
fieldworking.com
fieldworking.com:
FieldURLs
|
Street-level
Youth Media: young people using media to study community issues
|
adolescents’ uses of media:
ci.appstate.edu
knowledgenetworks.com
|
Sonia
Livingstone (2002) study of adolescents’ uses of media |
|
Video Game Players |
Game
Research
|
Game
Culture
|
The
Education Arcade
|
Game
Journals: blog about games
|
Game
Studies: research on game participation
|
WomenGamers
|
Digital
Games Research Association
|
For a study of female computer games:
culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu
|
DVD:
Gamers: Clans, Mods, and a Cultural Revolution (documentary
on gamers)
|
Issue
of M-C/Media and Culture on games
|
Ahuna, C. (2001). Online
Game communities are social in nature
|
Assignment:
conduct an ethnography of a New Media artifact
|
|
Fan Clubs |
Christine
Boese (1998), a study of the fan clubs for Xena, Warrior
Princess.
|
Star
Trek fan clubs/activities
|
For television program fan clubs:
fandom.tv
|
Soap opera fan clubs:
soaps.about.com
soapcentral.com
|
Shannon Delaney: Dominant
Rock: Fan Theory and Power in Hard Rock Music
|
Article
on a B52 fan club
|
Nicolas
Gipe’s study of a rock band’s fan club
|
Bale, J., Virtual fandoms; Futurescapes of football.
|
|
Online Chat Rooms |
For on-line Cybercultures
socio.demon.co.uk
|
Blogging:
other links
|
Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication
|
First
Monday
|
The
Journal of Virtual Environments
|
Cybersociology
|
Journal
of Online Behavior
|
Association
of Internet Researchers
|
The
Internet Studies Center
|
Center
for Digital Discourse and Culture
|
Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies
|
Cybergeography
Research
|
Cyberanthropology.org
|
Cyberculture,
identity, and gender resources
|
Net
Culture Site
|
Association
of Internet Researchers: Listserves on Internet Research
|
|
E-zines |
Blast!
Online
|
Feed (hip hop)
|
gURL
|
Politics4teens
|
Everytn.com
|
Get
Help
|
Teenink
|
Grip
Magazine
|
Teenmag.com
|
Teenreads.com:
The Book Bag (information about young adult novels, authors,
and entertainers)
|
Yo!
Youth Outlook (issues of concern to adolescents)
|
Wave
|
|
Theme/amusement parks/shopping malls |
Disney World, Disneyland,
disney.go.com
disneyworld.disney.go.com
|
For a video clip of the Education Media Foundation
video on Disney
mediaed.org
|
The 6 Flags chain
|
Universal
Orlando
|
Camp
Snoopy
|
The
Mall of America
|
Course syllabus: Susan Seizer, Scripps College, Malls,
Movies, and Museums: The Public Sphere in Modern America
|
Webquest: Should
Teens be Banned from Shopping Malls
|
Webquest: A Place to Advertise
|
An
ethnography of camera clubs
|
Mothers
|
Using
Still Photography in ethnographic research
|
Visual
Ethnography: use of photography to conduct ethnography |
Females
use of photography to explore their lives in school
|
Projects
created by the Street Level Youth Media project in Chicago:
portrayals of their own lives
|
Use
of digital photography in a high school ethnography
|
PowerPoint: media ethnography completed by elementary
school students:
appstate.edu:Beech
Mountain Elementary School - Media Ethnography
appstate.edu:Young
Children and Colthing
appstate.edu:The
Perception of Color
|
|
Popular Music |
Teen
Music: Webquest: writing about music experiences
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For a lesson on the function of music in society:
media-awareness.ca
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Webquest: Patriotism
and Protest: A Webquest on the Music of the Vietnam Era
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Music
Search: information about all types of music
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Music downloads
mp3.com
audiogalaxy.com
artistdirect.com
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Rolling
Stone: songs from top 100 current albums (Fall, 2002)
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Information
about artists/bands
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Webquest: Guide to Music on the Web
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A
Teen’s Personal Guide to Music on the Web
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Yahoo!
Entertainment Directory: Music>Genre
music.indiana.edu
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Internet
Underground Music Archive (clips from different genres)
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Webquest:
select a genre for music for a theme park |
Music
Maps: this site provides you with image maps of the evolution
of certain genres over time with links to sample songs/artists
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History
of different genres
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The
Seattle EMP Music Museum: topics/themes/artists related to the
history of popular music
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The
History of Music: 1950s to the present (lots of useful links)
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Webquest: A
Search for Poetry in Music
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Webquest: Song Analysis Webquest
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Webquest: Poetic
Devices in Music
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Webquest: Bringing
Lyrics to Life: The Multimedia Music Book
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Music
Theory for Song Writers
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Song lyric databases
lyrics.com
songlyrics.co.nz
thesonglyrics.com
ntl.matrix.com.br
stations.mp3s.com
home.iae.nl
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Webquest:
how rock music was used as social commentary
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Lesson:
studying literary aspects of lyrics
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Webquest: Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
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Song
Lyrics as Texts to Develop Critical Literacy |
Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame: teacher resources on the history of rock
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50
lesson plans from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Rock
‘n’ Roll Vault: information about the development
of rock history
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History
of Rock: 1954-1963
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Rock
and the Protest World of the 1960s
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Drug,
Sex, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
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Oldies
Music of the 50s to 70s
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History
of Rock
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Top
100 moments in the history of rock
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Rock
‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees, 1982 - 2001
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Developments
of different guitars from 1940 – 1960 (hear the sounds
of different types of guitars)
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Significant
events in the history of rock
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Course
at Indiana University on rock in the 1960s with lots of links
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Course
at Indiana University on rock in the 1970s and 1980s with lots of
links
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African-American
Music
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Webquest:
the history of rock
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Webquest:
studying the history of a specific genre
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Course:
Survey of World Pop Music
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Other resources:
Rocknews
RollingStone
MuchMusic
Rock
Around the World
Webquest: Song of Revolution, Protest, and Solidarity
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Jazz |
Unit: Defining
Jazz
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PBS
Ken Burns series on Jazz
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Unit: Jazz
and the Harlem Renaissance
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Unit: Transcending
Poetry, Jazz, Hip hop and Poetry
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Webquests: Jazz
Link
to Learn: Jazzing it up
Jazz
Webquest (angelfire.com)
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Webquest: Jazz in the 1920s
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Soul/blues |
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown’
funk45.com
movies.yahoo.com
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Webquest: Memphis
Soul Music
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Wequest: Why
is Black Gospel Music Still So Popular?
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early blues artists at the EMI Seattle Music Museum:
emplive.com
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For further information on lots of related topics:
nothinbutdablues.com
bluesnet.hub.org
island.net
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Blues
discotography: information on hundreds of records
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Webquest:
history of the blues
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Unit: Using
Blues as a Tool for Improvisation
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Webquest: Still
Got the Blues
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Webquest: on
the blues
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Rap |
Time-line exhibit on rap at the EMI Seattle Music
Museum: emplive.com |
Writing
rap lyrics
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Rhymerator:
assistance in creating rhymes
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Hiphopbattle:
groups compete against each other
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A
Chum Television Study Guide: Hip-Hop Consciousness
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Lots
of sites related to Hip-Hop culture
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The history of hip hop, as portrayed on the Seattle
EMP Music Museum:
emplive.com
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Vibe
Magazine
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Hip-Hop/Rap Group sites:
hiphop-directory.com
rapmusic.com
rap.about.com
b-boys.com
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Webquest
on Hip Hop culture
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Webquest: Is
Rap/Hip Hop Poetry?
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Webquest: Breakdancing
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Punk |
History of punk/heavy metal music, Seattle EMP Music
Museum:
emplive.com
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Histories of punk
fastnbulbous.com
punkmusic.com
punkbands.com
inch.com
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Female
punk bands |
The
Punk Page
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Bryn Chamberlain, “The
Quintessential Punk”
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MusicGirl:
female aspects of punk music
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Folk |
Folk
music
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Woody
Guthrie Foundation
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The Songs of Woody Guthrie
The
Songs of Woody Guthrie (geocities.com)
David
Arkush's Woody Guthrie page (fortunecity.com)
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Pete
Seeger Appreciation Page
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bobdylan.com
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Bob
Dylan’s Original Songs
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Sites with lots of links to different aspects of
folk music
mustrad.org.uk
jg.org
42explore.com
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World
Folk Music Association
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eFolkMusic.org (some free downloads)
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The
American Folk Music Community
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PBS:
Tapping the Roots of American Music
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The
Mudcat Café (for downloading folk music)
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Folk
music instruments
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Dirty
Linen Magazine
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A
Mighty Wind (parody of a documentary on folk music)
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Lesson:
Sing a Tale
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Country |
The
Roughstock History of Country Music site
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Country Music sites
cmt.com
cmaworld.com |
Country
Music Hall of Fame
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Nashville.net:
lots of links to country music sites
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Country music musicians:
countrystars.com |
Webquest:
country music
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Music Videos |
Music video producers
mtv.com
vh1.com
channelv.com(Channel
V: Asia Pacific)
columbiarecords.com |
Music video clips
clipland.com
fuse.tv/launcher.php
launch.yahoo.com
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Education Media Foundation video, What
a Girl Wants
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Lesson:
studying music videos |
Lesson:
on images musicians project in music videos/CD covers |
Music
Video 101 (create music videos)
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Webquest:
create a music video based on a poem
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The Music Industry |
PBS Frontline documentary The
Way the Music Died
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Music
industry promotions
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A Chum Television Study Guide: The
Recording Industry |
Money
for Nothing: The Business of Pop Music |
The
Future of Music
|
The
Recording Industry Association of America (industry organization) |
Lesson:
debating the Napster/free downloading issue |
Webquest:
the downloading issue
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A Chum Television Study Guide: The Future of the Music Industry (deals with the issues of downloading) |
Webquest:
use of the Internet in studying music |
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Radio |
American
Museum of Radio
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Sounds
of History (listen to radio recordings) |
Lots of links for studying radio history
radiohistory.org
dir.yahoo.com
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Minnesota Public Radio: Sound Learning site: resources
for English teachers linked to specific MPR programs:
soundlearning.org
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Webquest: Radio
Production
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Do-It-Yourself
Radio Setting up a Station: First Steps in Radio
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Beginner's
Guide to Low Power Broadcasting
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Micropower
Broadcasting - A Technical Primer
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Producing Your Own Radio Content:
transom.org
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Teen
Reporters Handbook
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A-Infos
Radio Project
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Low
Power FM
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LPFM
Radio Service
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News |
The
New York Times Learning Network
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CNN:
For Your Information: ways of integrating current events into
teaching
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USNews Classroom
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Scholastic News for students (grades 5-8)
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Newsweek for students
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Education Time Magazine |
Education
World: Ten activities for teaching with newspapers
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Minneapolis Star Tribune’s “Walk
Through the Newspaper”
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Webquest:
writing editorials on the role of imperialism in Africa
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Webquest:
creating a newspaper on the Protestant Reformation |
“You
Be the Editor:” making editorial decisions about specific
stories |
The political cartoon.
cagle.slate.msn.com
nytimes.com
cartoonweb.com |
Webquest:
analysis of political cartoons |
The
New York Times
|
The
Washington Post
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The
Los Angeles Times
|
USAToday |
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|
The
Dallas Morning News
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The
Boston Globe
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The
Chicago Tribune
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Time
Magazine
|
Yahoo
News Online
|
For summaries of blog reports:
cursor.org |
LiveJournal |
Blogger
|
DiaryLand
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tblog:
tblog.com |
Will
Richardson ’s Blog
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Center
for Technology and Teacher Education: blogging activities |
Skip
Dobson’s blog on blogging in Ohio schools |
Meg Hourihan, What
We ’re Doing When We Blog |
Xanga
|
Media-Awareness:
Bias in the News |
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
Webquest: analysis of the truth
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Webquest:
analysis of “racial hypocrisy” in news presentations
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News
links
News
about the news
Media
Channel: critiques of the news
Project
for Excellence in Journalism
Grade
the News: evaluating of Bay Area news |
The
Media and American Democracy site on First Amendment issues
Lesson
plans from Newseum for teaching about First Amendment Rights
Freedom
Forum: a organization addressing First Amendment issues
Webquest:
Freedom of the press related to school newspapers
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Lots of journalism units/activities
edhelper.com
highschooljournalism.org
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Newsroom
for a local news broadcast (from PBS’s Local News)
Analysis
of TV news
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Documentary |
For a useful introduction to documentary:
filmeducation.org
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Center
for Independent Documentaries
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Center
for Documentary Studies, Duke University
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The
Documentary Institute, University of Florida
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Bright
Lights Film Journal: reviews of documentaries |
Documentary
Box: journal on current trends in documentary production |
Docuseek:
database of documentaries |
A
curriculum unit based on the series by Peter Herndon of the
Yale/New Haven Teacher’s Institute
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Reviews
of documentaries
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Jenny Joynt, Documentary Viewing |
Michael Moore, in his documentaries,
us.imdb.com
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Roger and Me:
dogeatdogfilms.com
us.imdb.com
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Bowling for Columbine:
bowlingforcolumbine.com
us.imdb.com
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The Ken Burns PBS documentaries:
pbs.org
us.imdb.com
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Frederick Wiseman’s Domestic Violence
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Frederick Wiseman’s films: Zipporah
Films
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Clips
of propaganda films
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Propaganda:
Introduction and examples
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Propaganda in the Classroom (Bill Chapman Classroom
Tools): lots of articles/examples:
classroomtools.com
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Institute
for Propaganda Analysis |
Center
for the Study of Propaganda, University of Kent (lots of links
to examples) |
Webquest: Propaganda
TECHNIQUES in Advertising, Media, Politics & Warfare, Don
and Lin Donn |
Webquest: Propaganda
and War |
Webquest: create
a documentary about World War I
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Propaganda
related to the Iraq War
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PBS Frontline
|
PBS NOVA
|
NOVA:
teacher resources organized by topic
|
P.
O. V.—Point of View
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Independent
Lens
|
Media
Matters |
Secrets
of the Dead: crime lab forensics investigations |
Webquests: television documentary
teachnet.ie
teacherweb.com
sad61.k12.me.us
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Teaching units based on various teen issues related
to PBS Frontline documentaries:
pbs.org
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Viewing
Race Project, National Video Resources |
PBS: In the Mix; issues of concern to adolescents
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PBS Flashpoints; issues of civil liberties,
First Amendment rights, and security after 9/11 |
Center
for Independent Documentary |
MediaRights.org
|
Cambridge
Documentary Films: deals with social issues (includes video
clips)
|
Documentary
Education Review: a major site with lots of documentaries organized
by themes/topics |
Museum
of Broadcast Communications: DocuFest (an interactive on-line
site for classroom use) |
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Film/Television/Media/Web/Music History |
Film
and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television
Studies |
Museum
of the Moving Image
|
UCLA
Film and Television Archive |
Film
History: organized by decades |
Television
history |
Television
history |
MZTV
Museum of Television |
Museum
of Television and Radio |
History
of Television Technology |
Television
History Archive: Center for the Study of Popular Television,
Syracuse University |
“Beaver,
Bunker, and Bart: A History of the American Family in Television”
from Jim Burke’s English Companion site |
History
of the Web: different archive sites |
Center
for History and New Media, George Washington University: history
of digital media |
Rock,
Pop, and Rap; Studies in Popular Music History and Culture
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Rock
‘n Roll Hall of Fame
|
History
of Hip-Hop |
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Units/Lesson Plans |
Unit: The Shawshank Redemption |
Unit: Multimedia Poetry |
Unit: filming To Kill a Mockingbird |
ReadWriteThink lesson: adopt scenes from a text and create a film adaptation |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Literacy Scapebooks Online: An Electronic Reader-response Project |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Book Report Alternatives: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Critiquing Films using Sight and Sound |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing political cartoons |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Exploring Satire through The Simpsons |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Using blues music to study “Gift of the Magi” |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing fallacies in advertising |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Naming in the Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Creating a news broadcast about a character |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing portrayals of technology in fiction |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Writing a review of technology |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Writing technology autobiographies |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Creating a hyperlinked multigenre response to literature |
Lesson: Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film |
Free samples of literature/media units from the English and Media Centre |
