Media+Studies+Fall+2013

__ **Monday, January 6th to Wednesday, January 29th, 2014** __ __ **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

__**Monday, January 6th and Tuesday, January 7th**__: Well, it is hard 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 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:



__**Wednesday, January 8th to Wednesday, January 29th**__: 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 Monday, January 28th to Wednesday, January 29th ** . As the date draws closer I will be setting up a time for each of you to present!

It has been a pleasure having you all in the class! Thanks for being here and good luck in second semester! :)



__ **Monday, December 9th to Friday, December 13th, 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**__ __**Monday, December 9th to Wednesday, December 11th**__: For these classes you will be given time to work and present your PSAs. Please see last week's entries for more details.

__**Thursday, December 12th and Friday, December 13th**__: 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 with this next week! Have a great weekend!



__ **Monday, December 2nd to Friday, December 6th, 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, December 2nd**: __ You will be given time to work on your PSA page for your wikispace. Please see last week's entries for a refresher.

__**Tuesday, December 3rd**__: 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.

__**Wednesday, December 4th to Friday, December 6th**__: Time for you to create your own PSA!

By yourself or with partner, 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 weekend!



__ **Monday, November 25th to Friday, November 29th, 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 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, November 25th to Wednesday, November 27th**__: 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.

Some of the questions we are looking at, as we view the documentary are:
 * What do you know already?
 * What evidence are you being shown?
 * How do you know what is true?
 * How does the presentation contribute to building your beliefs?

__**Thursday, November 28th**__: 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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__**Monday, November 18th to Friday, November 21st, 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 visual presentation using the art of product placement

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, November 18th to Wednesday, Novembe****r**__ **__20th__:** During these classes we will finish up Transformers and continue to work on our Product Placement Presentations. If we can complete these by Thursday, that would be awesome. Please see last week's entries for specifics on your task for this presentation.

__**Thursday, November 21st**__: Today, hopefully most of us will be able to present our Product Placement Presentations.

Have a great weekend!



__**Tuesday, November 12th to Friday, November 15th, 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 visual presentation using the art of product placement

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Tuesday, November 12th and Wednesday Novemb****er**__ **__13th__:** Now that we are done musical stuff, FINISH TRANSFORMERS!!! Get the product placement sheets out!!! :) We should be done early tomorrow with the movie so that you can upload your finished pages to your wikispace.

__**Thursday, November 14th to Friday, November 15th**__:

__**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 (Check out the example below). 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.

You can create a video presentation, act it out in front of the class, or create a visual (see the student-made example on my board). It's up to you. Be as creative as you want! :)


 * We will be presenting these next Thursday, November 21st.**

Have a great weekend!

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__**Monday, November 4th to Thursday, November 7th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can create visual media products for the musical to display in the lobby of the Mae Wilson
 * We can use the digital cameras to take pictures of the actors
 * We can use our writing skills to create short biographies for the actors in "The Sound of Music" based on the interview questions asked prior

__**How are we learning it?**__ __**Monday, November 4th**__: You all are at "See Your Future" and I am by myself! HAVE FUN!

__**Tuesday, November 5th and Wednesday, November 6th**__: These are the things we need to get completed in the next two hours of class:

1. All picture printed off (black and white) 2. All articles must be proof read and printed off 3. Put the articles and pictures onto the boards provided

YOU DID IT!! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!!!

Have a great LONG weekend!!!!!



__**Monday, October 28th to Friday, November 1st, 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 use interviewing skills to write a short article on a person
 * We can use visual representations to create products for the musical

__ **How we will learn it** __ __**Monday, October 28th and Tuesday, October 29th,** **2013:**__ Refer to let week's entries on Transformers.

__**Wednesday, October 30th to Friday, November 1st**__: Begin work on the Actor write-ups for the musical. What is this going to look like. What can we get done during school hours and what will we need to work on during musical time? Let's talk this one through. Everyone is going to need to contribute in some way.

Articles:

Pictures:

Putting it all together:

Have a great weekend! :)



__**Monday, October 21st to Wednesday, October 23rd, 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, Octobe****r**__ **__21st__:** CATCH UP PERIOD! Psychographics! Grandparent Write-ups! Make it happen people!

__**Tuesday, October 22nd and Wednesday, October 23rd**__: 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:



Have a great weekend! :)



__**Tuesday, October 15th to Friday, October 18th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can investigate our own uses of media in our personal lives
 * We can 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 write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media
 * 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 examine the art of how advertisers use your personality, environment, and values to convince you to buy their products (psychographics)

__** How we will learn it **__ __** Tuesday, Octobe **** r **__** __15th__: ** Hope you all had a great weekend! Today we are going to be finishing up "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" and find out how Morgan completes his task in creating his own movie using only sponsors! Again, we are looking at how product placement is used as a persuasive tactic for advertisers to get their products into many different areas of our society, not just by TV or print!

__**Wednesday, October 16th to Friday, October 18th**__: 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.



Have a great weekend!



__**Monday, October 7th to Friday, October 11th, 2013**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can investigate our own uses of media in our personal lives
 * We can 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 write using details and support to enhance our opinion of certain aspects of media
 * 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, October 7th and Tuesday, October 8th**:__ Today, I want to talk more about codes and conventions, target audience, and formula. We are going to watch an episode of the show Scrubs. During this time I want you to think about the following questions, and we will answer them after using class discussion.

1. How is the story being told? 2. What type of genre is it? Explain the codes and conventions used to signify that genre? 3. We watched one episode, what is the big picture story that would carry this show through season after season? 4. Who is the Target Audience?

__**Wednesday, October 9th to Friday, October 11th**__: 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.

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__**Monday, September 30th to Friday, October 4th, 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 continue to add to our own personal wikispaces in order to share our learning and findings with others
 * We can analyze the different forms of advertising through the decades and compare and contrast how they were put together from the past to the present

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, September** 30th:__ Today, as I am away at a conference in Regina, Mr. Sullivan is going to be in with you. I want you to create a page on your wikispace that focuses on Advertising! We will be starting on Advertising near the end of this 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, 60s, 70s, etc. 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. What we will be doing later is looking at some of the advertisements that you have found, comparing them, and noticing what has changed in advertising, over the years. **You will be given some time on Thursday and Friday, of this week, to finish up this page! Remember, the more you have to choose from, the better! :)**

__**Tuesday, October 1st**__: I'm back! Did you miss me? Today we are going to FINALLY FINISH our handouts that we have been looking at over the last week Please pull up handout #4 and we will be looking at "Audience" for a little bit. Of course, class discussion is always encouraged!!! I know how much some of you love to talk!

__**Wednesday, October 2nd**__: Today, I want to talk more about codes and conventions, target audience, and formula. We are going to watch an episode of the show Scrubs. During this time I want you to think about the following questions, and we will answer them after using class discussion.

1. How is the story being told? 2. What type of genre is it? Explain the codes and conventions used to signify that genre? 3. We watched one episode, what is the big picture story that would carry this show through season after season? 4. Who is the Target Audience?

__**Thursday, October 3rd and Friday, October 4th**__: Please use this class time to finish up your advertising through the decades page (see Monday's entry) also any other things you need to fix up on your wiki. You can also use this time to finish any other homework you have for your other classes.

I will see you Monday!

Have a great weekend!



__ **Monday, September 23rd to Friday, September 27th, 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 continue to create our own personal wikispace in order to share our learning and findings with others

__ **How we will learn it** __ __ **Monday, September 23rd to Thursday, September** __ **__26th__:** During these classes we will be going through all 4 handouts (see last week entries). I encourage you to save them to your space on the school computer network so that you have access to them for every class. We will be spending most of the week going through the handouts and using class discussion and examples. Next week we will be looking at some specific examples of different forms of media using the notes.

__**Friday, September 27th**__: Since we only have half an hour, we will be using this time to complete any loose ends from over the week and have a class discussion about the content we have been looking at, this week.

Have an awesome weekend!



__ **Monday, September 16th to Friday, September 20th, 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 continue to create our own personal wikispace in order to share our learning and findings with others


 * __How we will learn it__**
 * __Monday, September 16th and Tuesday, September 17th__:** During these two days you will be involved in CCS' Welcome Week activities with the group, AXIS! Enjoy this time together and I will see you on Wednesday! :)

__**Wednesday, September 18th**__: Today, I will be giving you a bit more time to work on your wikispaces and getting them started! Please make sure to see last week's entries for the assignment and the evaluation. I will also be getting you to link your wiki with my wiki and also getting you to adjust your privacy setting so that we can all see your wikis! You will get one last chance to work on your wikispaces on Friday. The start-ups will be due next week as I will go and evaluate them during that time!

__**Thursday, September 17th**__: 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. You should have them open, as we go through them so that you can make notes for yourself. That is an option that you have! Here are the ones to save (they are also available in the ** Handouts ** section)





__**Friday, September 20th**__: One final class to work on finishing up your wikispace! These will be due next week! We will be continuing with yesterday's notes on Monday!

Have a great weekend!



__ **Monday, September 9th to Friday, September 13th, 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!



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.



__ **Tuesday, September 3rd to Friday, 6th, 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__ **
 * __Tuesday, September 3rd__: ** 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. **

**__Wednesday, September 4th to Friday, September 6th__**: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.