• 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: 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 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

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

• 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

Oraganizations that promote technology use 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 Place/Space

• 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
http://dir.yahoo.com
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
  http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/
  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

Music

Popular Music

• Teen Music: Webquest: writing about music experiences

• For a lesson on the function of music in society:
  media-awareness.ca

• Webquest: Patriotism and Protest: A Webquest on the Music of the Vietnam Era

• Music Search: information about all types of music

• Music downloads
  mp3.com
  audiogalaxy.com
  artistdirect.com

• Rolling Stone: songs from top 100 current albums (Fall, 2002)

• Information about artists/bands

• Webquest: Guide to Music on the Web

• A Teen’s Personal Guide to Music on the Web

• Yahoo! Entertainment Directory: Music>Genre
  music.indiana.edu

• Internet Underground Music Archive (clips from different genres)

• 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

• History of different genres

• The Seattle EMP Music Museum: topics/themes/artists related to the history of popular music

• The History of Music: 1950s to the present (lots of useful links)

• Webquest: A Search for Poetry in Music

• Webquest: Song Analysis Webquest

• Webquest: Poetic Devices in Music

• Webquest: Bringing Lyrics to Life: The Multimedia Music Book

• Music Theory for Song Writers

• Song lyric databases
  lyrics.com
  songlyrics.co.nz
  thesonglyrics.com
  ntl.matrix.com.br
  stations.mp3s.com
  home.iae.nl

• Webquest: how rock music was used as social commentary

• Lesson: studying literary aspects of lyrics

• Webquest: Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

• Song Lyrics as Texts to Develop Critical Literacy

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: teacher resources on the history of rock

• 50 lesson plans from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Rock ‘n’ Roll Vault: information about the development of rock history

• History of Rock: 1954-1963

• Rock and the Protest World of the 1960s

• Drug, Sex, and Rock ‘n’ Roll

• Oldies Music of the 50s to 70s

• History of Rock

• Top 100 moments in the history of rock

• Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees, 1982 - 2001

• Developments of different guitars from 1940 – 1960 (hear the sounds of different types of guitars)

• Significant events in the history of rock

• Course at Indiana University on rock in the 1960s with lots of links

• Course at Indiana University on rock in the 1970s and 1980s with lots of links

• African-American Music

• Webquest: the history of rock

• Webquest: studying the history of a specific genre

• Course: Survey of World Pop Music

• Other resources:
  Rocknews
  RollingStone
  MuchMusic
  Rock Around the World
  Webquest: Song of Revolution, Protest, and Solidarity

Jazz

• Unit: Defining Jazz

• PBS Ken Burns series on Jazz

• Unit: Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance

• Unit: Transcending Poetry, Jazz, Hip hop and Poetry

• Webquests: Jazz
  Link to Learn: Jazzing it up
  Jazz Webquest (angelfire.com)

• Webquest: Jazz in the 1920s

Soul/Blues

• "Standing in the Shadows of Motown’
  funk45.com
  movies.yahoo.com

• Webquest: Memphis Soul Music

• Wequest: Why is Black Gospel Music Still So Popular?

• early blues artists at the EMI Seattle Music Museum:
  emplive.com

• For further information on lots of related topics:
  nothinbutdablues.com
  bluesnet.hub.org
  island.net

• Blues discotography: information on hundreds of records

• Webquest: history of the blues

• Unit: Using Blues as a Tool for Improvisation

• Webquest: Still Got the Blues

• Webquest: on the blues

Rap

• Time-line exhibit on rap at the EMI Seattle Music Museum: emplive.com

• Writing rap lyrics

• Rhymerator: assistance in creating rhymes

• Hiphopbattle: groups compete against each other

• A Chum Television Study Guide: Hip-Hop Consciousness

• Lots of sites related to Hip-Hop culture

• The history of hip hop, as portrayed on the Seattle EMP Music Museum:
  emplive.com

• Vibe Magazine

• Hip-Hop/Rap Group sites:
  hiphop-directory.com
  rapmusic.com
  rap.about.com
  b-boys.com

• Webquest on Hip Hop culture

• Webquest: Is Rap/Hip Hop Poetry?

• Webquest: Breakdancing

Punk

• History of punk/heavy metal music, Seattle EMP Music Museum:
  emplive.com

• Histories of punk
  fastnbulbous.com
  punkmusic.com
  punkbands.com
  inch.com

• Female punk bands

• The Punk Page

• Bryn Chamberlain, “The Quintessential Punk”

• MusicGirl: female aspects of punk music

Folk

• Folk music

• Woody Guthrie Foundation

• The Songs of Woody Guthrie
  The Songs of Woody Guthrie (geocities.com)
  David Arkush's Woody Guthrie page (fortunecity.com)

• Pete Seeger Appreciation Page

• bobdylan.com

• Bob Dylan’s Original Songs

• Sites with lots of links to different aspects of folk music
  mustrad.org.uk
  jg.org
  42explore.com

• World Folk Music Association

• eFolkMusic.org (some free downloads)

• The American Folk Music Community

• PBS: Tapping the Roots of American Music

• The Mudcat Café (for downloading folk music)

• Folk music instruments

• Dirty Linen Magazine

• A Mighty Wind (parody of a documentary on folk music)

• Lesson: Sing a Tale

Country

• The Roughstock History of Country Music site

• Country Music sites
  cmt.com
  cmaworld.com

• Country Music Hall of Fame

• Nashville.net: lots of links to country music sites

• Country music musicians:
  countrystars.com

• Webquest: country music

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

• Education Media Foundation video, What a Girl Wants

• Lesson: studying music videos

• Lesson: on images musicians project in music videos/CD covers

• Music Video 101 (create music videos)

• Webquest: create a music video based on a poem

The Music Industry

• PBS Frontline documentary The Way the Music Died

• Music industry promotions

• 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

• 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

Radio

• American Museum of Radio

• Sounds of History (listen to radio recordings)

• Lots of links for studying radio history
  radiohistory.org
  dir.yahoo.com

• Minnesota Public Radio: Sound Learning site: resources for English teachers linked to specific MPR programs:
  soundlearning.org

• Webquest: Radio Production

• Do-It-Yourself Radio Setting up a Station: First Steps in Radio

• Beginner's Guide to Low Power Broadcasting

• Micropower Broadcasting - A Technical Primer

• Producing Your Own Radio Content:
  transom.org

• Teen Reporters Handbook

• A-Infos Radio Project

• Low Power FM

• LPFM Radio Service

News

• The New York Times Learning Network

• CNN: For Your Information: ways of integrating current events into teaching

• USNews Classroom

• Scholastic News for students (grades 5-8)

• Newsweek for students

• Education Time Magazine

• Education World: Ten activities for teaching with newspapers

• Minneapolis Star Tribune’s “Walk Through the Newspaper”

• Webquest: writing editorials on the role of imperialism in Africa

• 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

• The Los Angeles Times

• USAToday

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• The Dallas Morning News

• The Boston Globe

• The Chicago Tribune

• Time Magazine

• Yahoo News Online

• For summaries of blog reports:
  cursor.org

• LiveJournal

• Blogger

• DiaryLand

• tblog:
  tblog.com

• Will Richardson ’s Blog

• 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

• Webquest: analysis of “racial hypocrisy” in news presentations

• 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

• Lots of journalism units/activities
  edhelper.com
  highschooljournalism.org

• Newsroom for a local news broadcast (from PBS’s Local News)
  Analysis of TV news

Documentary

• For a useful introduction to documentary:
  filmeducation.org

• Center for Independent Documentaries

• Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

• The Documentary Institute, University of Florida

• 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

• Reviews of documentaries

• Jenny Joynt, Documentary Viewing

• Michael Moore, in his documentaries,
  us.imdb.com

• Roger and Me:
  dogeatdogfilms.com
  us.imdb.com

• Bowling for Columbine:
  bowlingforcolumbine.com
  us.imdb.com