Media & the Medium

Media & the Medium is a curriculum developed for learners ages 8 to adult in educational and community settings, the lessons help students deconstruct existing messages and understand the process of creating new media by using multimedia examples.

What’s on the CD?

• 65 media examples such as movie clips, TV commercials, songs, advertisements, and photographs.
• 37 lesson plans with Internet articles, handouts, and activity sheets.

Topics include:

• Art and Storytelling
• Free Speech and Privacy
• News and Bias
• Creating Community Media
• Corporate Logos and Advertising
• Comics and Animation
• And more!

Learners will:

• Understand how media has changed over the years.
• Learn how meaning is created from sound in TV and film.
• Understand the nature of free speech
• Create media applying the concepts, skills, and persuasive techniques of media literacy.

This CD is part of the Media Literacy for Success Series.

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