What+are+we+learning+in+Media+Studies+20+2013?

__**Monday June 3rd to Friday, June 21st, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can define popular culture
 * We can create a piece of media text from conception to production to presentation
 * We can recognize the role of culture in all communication
 * We can write to express understanding
 * We can read to find meaning and interpret
 * We can speak to share thoughts, opinions, and feelings
 * We can confer with peers and teachers
 * We can recognize underlying values and issues as they apply to a particular media issue or problem
 * We can recognize the impact of media communications
 * We can use a variety of resources to assist their research
 * We can learn how technology impacts on their lives, society, and the environment
 * We can manage time and resources
 * We work independently or with a peer
 * We can communicate findings and conclusions in an appropriate manner for a specific audience and purpose.

__**How we will learn it**__

Last week, we discussed your final projects for our class. During the next two weeks (12 hours of class time) you are going to be given the full hour, each day to work on your final projects for our class. Please see last week's entries for your assignment package and rubric for evaluation. Remember, CHOOSE A TOPIC THAT IS OF INTEREST TO YOU AND THAT YOU WON'T GET BORED WITH! You are being given the time to explore, play with technology, research, and create. Use this time wisely and not to waste! Just like I showed you with student example for over the last few years, the bar is set quite high for this final project! Plus, please don't forget that is is MANDATORY. I cannot give you a mark without the final presentation, taking place.


 * Presentations will take place from Wednesday, June 19th to Friday, June 21st**. As the date draws closer I will be setting up a time for each of you to present!

Hope you have a great summer!



__**Monday, May 27th to Friday, May 31st, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine the process of creating an on stage production using media
 * We can look at the outline for your final projects

__** How we will learn it **__

__** Monday, May 27th and Tuesday, May **__** __28th__: ** We will use these two classes to finish up the All Together Now documentary.

__**Wednesday, May 29th**__: Today, you have Mrs. Golding with you as I am away. I want you to work on your wikipages for The Beatles documentary. Here is a copy of the questions, for you to use, again. **Please omit #5 as we didn't get a chance to watch the bonus features**.



__**Thursday, May 30th and Friday, May 31st**__: Well, it is h ard to believe it is already time to start wrapping up the semester, as June is here, next week. As you begin working on your final unit, you are will be given over 15 hours of time to work on this before your presentation. Remember, this unit of study is where you get to create your own presentation on any topic you wish to when it comes to media. Make sure that you choose a topic that is of interest to you and that you won't get bored with after a few classes. We will still have a few things we will be working on as a class but I wanted to get you thinking about your final project.

We will be scheduling presentation times as the semester starts to wind down. I am here to help you out so please use me!

Again, all of the details can be found in your project packages which you can download here:



I am going to show you some examples of what types of projects some of my students have made over the last two years and then I will be giving you the rest of today and tomorrow to start getting ideas about what you will want to do for your final project.

Have a great weekend!

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__**Tuesday, May 21st to Friday, May 24th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine the art of creating a Public Service Announcement
 * We can disect other PSA's and how they impact society
 * We can create an outline or storyboard for our own PSA video or print advertisement
 * We can create our own PSA that focuses on a topic in society or within the Christian community
 * We can examine the process of creating an on stage production using media

__**How we will learn it**__

__**Tuesday, May 21st to Thursday, May 23rd**__: We will have Tuesday and Wednesday to finish up your PSA assignments and then share them on Thursday, May 23rd. Can we do this?

__**Friday, May** 24th:__ Over the next couple of days, we are going to be looking at how a piece of media is produced from concept to design to production. We will be taking a look at the documentary film "LOVE: The Beatles" as the guys from Cirque Du Soleil create a piece of media from start to finish and the path they took to get there. Please download the following handout and answer the questions as we go through:



We will continue this into next week! Have a great weekend!



__**Monday, May 13th to Friday, May 17th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine the art of creating a Public Service Announcement
 * We can disect other PSA's and how they impact society
 * We can create an outline or storyboard for our own PSA video or print advertisement
 * We can create our own PSA that focuses on a topic in society or within the Christian community

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, May 13th and Tuesday, May** 14th:__ You will be given time to work on your PSA page for your wikispace. Please see last week's entries for a refresher.

__**Wednesday, May 15th**__: Each of us will hopefully be able to share one of the PSAs from our wikispace page and we can have a class discussion on the ones that you share.

__**Thursday, May 16th and Friday, May 17th**__: Time for you to create your own PSA!

By yourself, with a partner, or a group 3, design your own PSA based on a topic that you believe in important in our pop culture. You can create this in print form or with a video. If you decide to go with the print form, you will need to create 3 PSAs. If you go with the video, you will just need to create one video. What I am looking for is that you create a PSA that has the following elements:
 * Your Task ** :
 * Video is no longer than 45 seconds
 * Video is edited somehow (iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Your phone editing soft ware, etc.)
 * Print ads must contain images that you create (no cutting and pasting offline)
 * Print ads must contain text that is not copied or pasted off the internet (quotes, etc.)
 * All forms of PSA must relate to a topic that is important in our pop culture
 * All forms of PSAs need to be kept school appropritate (there is pushing the line of decency and there is just you think you are being shocking by being silly)

You will be given the rest of the week to work on this and Tuesday of next week.

Hope you have a great long weekend!

__**Monday, May 6th to Friday, May 10th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine a documentary for purpose and understanding
 * We can analayze the tools for creating a documentary
 * We can interpret the message of a documentary to see the creators point of view
 * We can examine the art of creating a Public Service Announcement
 * We can disect other PSA's and how they impact society

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, May 6th to Wednesday, May**__ **__8th__:** Today my hope is to get through a few more Product Placement Presentations and then start into looking at our first documentary for this unit called "The Cove". As you watch the documentary, is to think about what we know about animal rights and animal cruelty. Remember to keep in mind that it is a documentary and one person's opinion and visual. Do you agree with everything you are being shown? That is the big question! This will lead us into looking at what a Public Service Announcement (PSA) does and how it is made up.

__**Thursday, May 9th and Friday, May** 10th:__ Your job, for the next two classes, is to create a **Public Service Announcement** page on your wikispace (you can call it "PSA Page" and then go and find some PSAs on YouTube that you can embed onto your wikispace. I would like you to find 5 PSA videos that deal with 5 different social issues in pop culture (each one must be different). Some ideas would include:
 * Drinking and Driving
 * Texting and Driving
 * Being cautious online
 * Dangers of Drugs
 * Environment issues
 * Animal Cruelty
 * Body Image (boys and girls)
 * Violence
 * Choose any that you feel would relate to our pop culture (issues of today)

For each of the videos you choose and put on your page, I would like you to answer the following questions under each of the videos:
 * 1. What is the topic for the PSA?**
 * 2. What are they trying to make you think about in the PSA?**
 * 3. What emotions are brought up through watching the PSA? How are they brought up?**
 * 4. What are you left thinking about after you watch the PSA when it comes to that topic?**

Have a great weekend!

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 * We can examine how advertising is visual but can also be subliminal in the way we see it and hear it
 * We can Recognize the role and power of advertising in the mass media
 * We can Extend and apply their speaking, listening, writing, reading, viewing, and representing abilities
 * We can create a video presentation using the art product placement which includes the use of one staff member

__**Monday, April 29th to Wednesday, May 1st**__: WOW! We have all been so busy the last few weeks! Hopefully are presentations are getting completed! We will finish them off and move onto something else before the end of the week! Please make sure to get them done!

__**Thursday, May 2nd and Friday, May 3rd**__: Today my hope is to get through a few more Product Placement Presentations and then start into looking at our first documentary for this unit called "The Cove". As you watch the documentary, is to think about what we know about animal rights and animal cruelty. Remember to keep in mind that it is a documentary and one person's opinion and visual. Do you agree with everything you are being shown? That is the big question! This will lead us into looking at what a Public Service Announcement (PSA) does and how it is made up.

We will pick this up on Monday!

Have a great weekend!



__**Monday, April 22nd to Friday, April 26th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine how advertising is visual but can also be subliminal in the way we see it and hear it
 * We can Recognize the role and power of advertising in the mass media
 * We can Extend and apply their speaking, listening, writing, reading, viewing, and representing abilities
 * We can create a video presentation using the art product placement which includes the use of one staff member

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, April 22nd to Thursday, April**__ **__25th__:** During these classes you will be given the opportunity to work on your Product Placement Presentations! Please make sure to use the time wisely! :) I know it is a busy week with One Acts coming up! Lots of excitement around! :)

__**Friday, April 26th**__: Product Placement Presentations will be Presented at this Present Period! :) I know, cheesy!

Have a great weekend!



__**Monday, April 15th to Friday, April 19th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can identify the use of product placement in a specific movie
 * We can examine how advertising is visual but can also be subliminal in the way we see it and hear it
 * We can Recognize the role and power of advertising in the mass media
 * We can Extend and apply their speaking, listening, writing, reading, viewing, and representing abilities
 * We can create a video presentation using the art product placement which includes the use of one staff member

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, April** 15th:__ Today we finished up Transformers! How many product placements did you see within it? You will need to create a page on your wikispace called Transformers and include all of the product placements that you saw! I will give you some time to work on this tomorrow, as well!

__**Tuesday, April 16th to Thursday, April 18th**__: Today, I am giving you some time to work on your product placement pages (say that three times fast) for your wikispaces and we will be going over the following assignment that deals with product placement:

__**Your Task**__:

To create a 3 minute scene from a movie, music video, or TV show that contains at least 10 product plaements. It is up to you how you want to create it! You can choose video or pictures but a scene does need to be setup that incorporates product placement into it (Remember the Wayne's World example from last week). The scene must be kept clean and school appropriate! DUH!!!! OBVIOUSLY!!!

You get to decide on the products that you want to use but they must be visible or used within the scene and prominently displayed.

Also, you MUST get one staff member to appear in the scene with you and have them use a product that would fit into their Psychographic formula (remember VALS from a few weeks ago). You will need to interview that staff member to find out what they are and what they fall under in order for the product to be used. You will need to tell the class what the staff member is when it comes to Psychographics.

You are allowed to use any of your devices. If you do a video and can upload it to YouTube, that would be great! Just make sure to get the staff member's permission before posting!

__**Friday, April 19th**__: You will be with Mr. Cameron in the Chapel for most of the morning due to a special presentation!

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__**Monday, April 8th to Friday, April 12th, 2013**__
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can identify the use of product placement in a specific movie
 * We can examine how advertising is visual but can also be subliminal in the way we see it and hear it
 * We can Recognize the role and power of advertising in the mass media
 * We can Extend and apply their speaking, listening, writing, reading, viewing, and representing abilities

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, April 8th to Wednesday, April** 10th:__ For the next couple of classes we are going to be looking at a specific piece of media that focuses product placement within it. Most of us, over the past few years, has heard a little bit about the Transformers movies (there have been 3 of them over the last 5 years). You know, those robots called Autobots that come to earth to save us from the Decepticons. Yeah, those guys! :) Well, within the first movie there are over ** 96 product placements ** thrown into it. Our job is to actually see if we can spot as many as we can. ** Within this search you will need to keep your eyes AND your ears open ** . Yes, not only is product placement about sight, it is about what you hear, as well. Please download the following handout to your network space. We will be completing these as we watch the movie. Afterwards we will post your findings and your opinion question to your wikispace. Here is the handout:



__**Thursday, April 11th and Friday, April** 12th:__ Today, you are going to start on a short project that takes us back to our "Product Placement" section. Here is what I want you to do:


 * You get to decide if you want to work in partners by yourself in creating a TV or Movie scene (no more than three minutes)and figuring out how you could enhance that scene with product placement. You can create this however you would like. You can map it out in a story board format (like Morgan did in "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold", take pictures of the scene using the products, or record it on video. We will be presenting these to the class next week! Today, you will just get a start on deciding what you are going to do. We will have some time next week to work on this but you better get a good start on it today!**
 * Have a great weekend!**

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__**Monday, March 25th to Thursday, 28th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can Recognize the codes, forms, and conventions of the various mass media
 * We can Recognize the ways in which the various mass media shape their messages, and construct a sense of what the world is or how it works
 * We can Analyze and evaluate the various mass media, including their sources, intents, and underlying values
 * We can Recognize the role and power of advertising in the mass media
 * We can Extend and apply their speaking, listening, writing, reading, viewing, and representing abilities
 * We can Extend and apply their representing and viewing abilities by designing and creating a media text
 * We can analyze a TV show for codes and conventions
 * We can analyze a TV show and look at how it reflects on societies story and value within our personal lives

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, March** 25th:__ Today we are going to look at what kind of shopper you are and how advertisers use this information to promote their products to us. Please download the notes to your network space for safe keeping. Once we go through the notes it will be up to you to decide what kind of shopper you are and what kinds of advertisements effect you. Your job will also be to examine three (3) other people that you know and describe what kind of shopper they are and give some examples of what kinds of advertising would work on them. That is a total of 4 people (you and 3 others of your choice). Please create a page on your wiki called " ** Psychographics ** ". This is where you will put your information. Please feel free to use advertisements from YouTube or ones that you find online.



__**Tuesday, March 26th to Thursday, March 28th**__: During these classes (I know that they are shortened a little bit because of Spiritual Emphasis Week), you will be given time to work on the above assignment. Mr. Sullivan will be in with you on Wednesday and Thursday as I am away in Nashville, visiting my godson. I hope you have an awesome Easter Break and get to relax a bit! Have a good one and I will see you when we get back!

HAPPY EASTER!



__ **Monday, March 18th to Friday, March 22nd, 2013** __ __ **What are we learning?** __


 * We can investigate our own uses of media in our personal lives
 * To use the Media Triangle to deconstruct common forms of media and the way they are presented to us.
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms that we consume in our world
 * We can use class discussion and group activities to look at the uses that Mass Media plays in our lives
 * We can use examine and use different technology media tools that play a big role in our society at the present time
 * We can recognize the role television can play in our personal lives
 * We can evaluate the popularity and nature of television
 * We can write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, March** **18th and Tuesday, March 19th**:__ Now we will be switching gears in genres for the next few days. For these classes we are going to continue to look at the media triangle and how creators of pieces of media can use a similar idea and present it in different ways in order to reach a certain audience. Before, we looked at Scrubs, and now we will be looking at the show, Grey's Anatomy. Please download the handout, for the show, to your network drive so that you can edit it and answer the questions as we go along. We will then upload your document to your wikispace.



__ **Wednesday, March 20th and Thursday, March** 21st: __ Today we are going to start looking at the art of advertising by studying the art of "Product Placement". In this section, we are going to be looking at how companies use advertising within movies and TV to promote their products to you. We will be watching the documentary ** "Greatest Movie Ever Sold" ** to help us look at how this technique is used, and we will be using class discussion at different points in the movie to look at some of the things being shown to us. We are also going to looking at finding your brand and how advertisers use our personal sense of how we were raised and our environment to focus on how they persuade us to buy their products.

Have a great weekend!

Is this a music video or slick advertising? What do you think?

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__ **Monday, March 11th to Friday, March 15th, 2013** __ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can investigate our own uses of media in our personal lives
 * To use the Media Triangle to deconstruct common forms of media and the way they are presented to us.
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms that we consume in our world
 * We can use class discussion and group activities to look at the uses that Mass Media plays in our lives
 * We can use examine and use different technology media tools that play a big role in our society at the present time
 * We can recognize the role television can play in our personal lives
 * We can evaluate the popularity and nature of television
 * We can write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media

__ **How we will learn it** __ __**Monday, March 11th and Tuesday, March 12th**__: During these two classes we will be examining the Media Triangle (handout from previous week #4). We will be examining the triangle in class and then be using it as we view two examples.

During these two classes we will be completing the objectives listed above by looking at two similar media texts and how they are changed to meet the needs of a similar audience. Today, we will be looking at the humorous side of these two stories by looking at the show "Scrubs". Scrubs was a show that was a comedy and dealt with hospital interns trying to learn how to become doctors. These stories are definitely supposed to be told from a more comedic side and it is up to us to see how the creators of this show used different codes and conventions to tell their story. As we are watching please fill out the following worksheet on Scrubs. The questions are for you to look at and think about as we watch the show. You will be posting these responses to your wikispace. Here is the handout for you to download:



__ **Wednesday, March 13th and Thursday, March** __ **__14th__:** Now we will be switching gears in genres for the next few days. For these classes we are going to continue to look at the media triangle and how creators of pieces of media can use a similar idea and present it in different ways in order to reach a certain audience. Before, we looked at Scrubs, and now we will be looking at the show, Grey's Anatomy. Please download the handout, for the show, to your network drive so that you can edit it and answer the questions as we go along. We will then upload your document to your wikispace.



__**Friday, March 16th**__: SKI DAY FOR ALL OF YOU AT MISSION RIDGE!!! :)

Have a great weekend!



__ **Monday, March 4th to Friday, March 8th, 2013** __ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can use class discussion and group activities to look at the uses that Mass Media plays in our lives
 * We can use examine and use different technology media tools that play a big role in our society at the present time
 * We can write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms of media that we consume in our world
 * We can discover how advertising has changed throughout the decades by creating a collection of advertisements from YouTube and Google Images from the 50s to to today.

__**Monday, March 4th**__: Hope you all had a great weekend! Today, we are going to give you another opportunity to work on your "advertisements through the decades" page on your wiki (please see last week's entries for explanation).
 * __How we will learn it__**

__**Tuesday, March 5th**__: Today we are going to continue going throught the handouts that were listed for you on Tuesday, February 19th. We will be discussing Ideology and Values, Target Audience, Active Audience, and Industry.

__**Wednesday, March 6th**__: Today, we will finish up our discussion on the notes from yesterday and I will give you one last opportunity to work on your advertising pages.

__**Thursday, March 7th**__: PARTY Day at the Union Hospital! Have you handed in your permission forms to the office?

__**Friday, March 8th**__: Prep Day for teachers! NO SCHOOL FOR YOU!! SLEEP IN!! LUCKY KIDS!!! :)

Have a great weekend! :)

Some classic Mac vs. PC advertisements for you! Why are they populor? hmmmmmm!

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__ **M** ____ **onday, February 25th to Friday, March 1st, 2013** __ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can use class discussion and group activities to look at the uses that Mass Media plays in our lives
 * We can use examine and use different technology media tools that play a big role in our society at the present time
 * We can write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms of media that we consume in our world
 * We can create our own personal wikispace in order to share our learning and findings with others

__ **How we will learn it** __ __ **Monday, February** 25th: __ I would like to thank each and every one of you for helping out the Entrepreneurship class today with their "Lemonade Sale"! Your contribution was awesome!

__**Tuesday, February 26th**__: Today we will finishing up the handouts that we started last Tuesday (please see last Tuesday's entries). During this time I will encourage you to add to your notes that you down as we go through them as a class discussion.

__**Wednesday, February 27th**__: Today, as I am away with some of the students in Saskatoon, I want you to create a page on your wikispace that focuses on Advertising! We will be starting on Advertising next week and I want you to have a number of examples (both video and image based), too choose from. What I would like you to do is create a page called "Advertising" and within it I would like you to include a number of examples of different forms of advertising that would appeal to you. Your collection of advertisements will include ads from different time periods starting from the 1950s and going all the way up to 2013. It will be up to you to decide what type of products to look at. Some examples could be: Cars, Toys, Food, Appliances, Beauty Products, Electronics (wonder what they had in the 1950s?), etc.

We will be looking at these pages next week! :)

__**Thursday, February 28th**__: We are going to be continuing to look at our handouts from last week! You guys have provided some AWESOME discussion and I can't see where it is leading us!

__**Friday, March 1st**__: We will see where we are at in our discussions and will go from there! Next week I want to watch some TV!! Please join me!! :)

I think we need to hear from the Taylor Swift Goat just ONE MORE TIME!!! :)

Have an awesome weekend!

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__ **Tuesday, February 19th to Friday, February 22nd, 2013** __ __ **What are we learning?** __
 * We can use class discussion and group activities to look at the uses that Mass Media plays in our lives
 * We can use examine and use different technology media tools that play a big role in our society at the present time
 * We can write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms of media that we consume in our world
 * We can create our own personal wikispace in order to share our learning and findings with others

__ **How we will learn it** __ __ **Tuesday, February** __ **__19th__:** Today we will be starting to go over the following handouts for our section on "Mass Media and Populor Culture". Please save them to your "Media Studies" folder on your space on the network. Again, you always have access to these files on the wiki. Here are the ones to save (they are also available in the **Handouts** section):



__**Wednesday, February 20th and Thursday, February 21st**__: Today and tomorrow, I am away. You are going to be given this time as the last two classes to work on your wikispaces (see last week's entries). Early next week, I will be linking my wikispace up with yours so that we are good to go!

__**Friday, February 22nd**__: We will be continuing through the handouts from Tuesday!

Have a great weekend!

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__ **Monday, February 11th to Friday, February 15th, 2013** __ __ **What are we learning?** __
 * We can begin to investigate our own uses of media in society and how other use it
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms of media that we consume in our world
 * We can create our own personal wikispace in order to share our learning and findings with others

__**Monday, February 11th to Friday, February 15th**__: During these classes, we will begin working on developing our own personal wikispace. We will be going over some of the basics of how to setup a wikispace in class an then you will be allowed to explore, on your own and with your classmates, on different things you can do with the wikispace site. Please refer to the handout for instructions (we will go over in class). As this is a big part of our class, I want to give you sometime to work on this project. You will be given the next few classes to get this completed. You will receive a rubric for your wikispace evaluation tomorrow.
 * __How we will learn it__**

www.wikispaces.com will get us started! :)

To get started, you will need to have a few elements from the internet at your disposal. Please remember acceptable use when you are online!

Remember, you can save a picture by "right clicking" and the "save picture as" option. Please make sure to create a folder in your network space called "Media Studies 20"

1. Pictures of your favourite food 2. Pictures of your friends and family (school appropriate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 3. Pictures from TV shows that you like 4. Pictures of your favourite musicians or bands 5. Pictures of your favourite movies 6. Pictures of your hobbies (cars, music, sports, shopping, recreations, etc.)



You are going to be given these classes to work on your wikispace. Please remember to use the assignment above and the rubric down below so you will know what and how you are being evaluated on.

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__ **Monday February 4th to Friday February, 8th, 2013** __ __ **What are we learning?** __
 * We can read through our course outline
 * We can begin to investigate our own uses of media in society and how other use it
 * We can view and have a class discussion on the ways media is presented to us and the different forms of media that we consume in our world
 * We can create our own personal wikispace in order to share our learning and findings with others


 * __How we will learn it__ **
 * __Monday, February 4th__:** Welcome to Media Studies 20. Today, we took a look at the course outline and then started discussing and viewing some of topics and issues that we will look at in our class. We also talked about the creation of your media logs on the wikis. We will be starting these in the next few days. Please remember to use this wiki in case you need to see what we did in class when you are away or to download handouts that you may have missed in class (posted under each daily entry and in the handouts section on the left hand side). We also took the time to look at some different forms of media and we will be doing this over the next few days as a class discussion.


 * Please refer to the "Course Outline" section for Media Studies 20 on the left hand side of the page. **

__ **Tuesday, February 5th to Friday, February 8th** __ :Today we are going to watch a few videos from YouTube and have our first class discussion about aspects of the media and why we, as a society, find enjoyment from such things. Through these classes we will be doing a lot of viewing and questioning, which is the building blocs of this class. Some of the questions we will look at are:

1. How does this appeal to me? 2. How does this affect me personal? 3. How do I question something that I think is "cool"? 4. How do I look at something "outside of the box"? 5. How do I question something that looks "reall"?

By looking at how to answer these questions we will be well on our way to getting into the true content of our course.

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