Comm 2 Student Blogs – Fall 2011
Each semester, my Comm 2 students are required to have diversity media blogs, among other assignments. This blogging assignment requires students to make an entry each week about their media consumption. The entry can be about anything interesting they have experienced in the media. Their observations are based on their own opinions, and are judged only by their level of analysis.
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Fall 2011
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Summer 2011
Each semester, my communications students must write about their media experiences on their own blogs. The students try to think critically about the media they consume, and write short critical analyses about those experiences. Below are the blogs for my summer 2011 Communication 10 course. … Continue Reading
Comm 2 Student Blogs – Spring 2011
Each semester, my Comm 2 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. … Continue Reading
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Spring 2011
Each semester, my communications students must write about their media experiences on their own blogs. The students try to think critically about the media they consume, and write short critical analyses about those experiences. Below are the blogs for my 8:00am Communications 10 course. … Continue Reading
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Fall 2010 (Regular)
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Fall 2010 (AAPIA)
Each semester, my communications students must write about their media experiences on their own blogs. The students try to think critically about the media they consume, and write short critical analyses about those experoences. Below are the blogs for my 8am Communications 10 course, a part of the AAPIA grant program, and taught in Santa Monica College’s new DLS.
Dropbox – My favorite new app
I work on the road a lot, and I’m constantly creating and editing all types of files. But between creating files on the desktop, the laptop, the iPad, and my Android phone, things were getting messy.
Enter Dropbox. You sign up for service (you can get a free 2gb account), then download the Dropbox software on all of your devices. You instantly get a shared folder that you can store any file in. I often write TO DO lists on my Macbook, then access the list on my phone through the Dropbox app. I can also access my files on any computer by going to their website and logging in. If my laptop ever dies on me, I buy a new one, install Dropbox, and all of my files are there… I’d be up and running in 5 minutes.
Dropbox has helped make my mobile lifestyle a lot easier, and I highly recommend it.
Link to Dropbox using the links in this post and get an extra 250mb of storage for free.
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Summer 2010
Each semester, my Comm 10 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. The are supposed to analyze media that they encounter, especially media related to race or gender stereotypes and biases. For summer courses, students write two blog posts per week.
Student Journal for Media Literacy Education
During the spring 2010 semester, the students in Santa Monica College’s Communications 2 (media literacy) course published the first issue of the Student Journal for Media Literacy Education. Under the supervision of Professor Nick Pernisco, the students wrote articles on the agreed upon theme of Media Literacy in Social Media. The students worked mostly in pairs on a selected topic within the theme, and they conducted their own research and analysis to produce their work. Although Professor Pernisco provided guidance, the students had the final say on the articles, the publication’s layout and logo, and even on the press release for the Journal.
The Spring 2010 issue of the Student Journal for Media Literacy Education is available below for download.