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.
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Spring 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. … Continue Reading
Comm 2 Student Blogs – Spring 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. … Continue Reading
iCelery
And now, a message from our CEO, Steve Layoffs.
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We have something really special to share with you today. You already know all about it, because our marketing department has been leaking information to the eager press about it for months! We were just testing to see if you would actually want this thing we’re introducing today, and it seems you’d at least spend your money on it, so we went ahead and created it to sell to you. … Continue Reading
Copyrights in the Classroom
A friend of mine recently presented at the K12 Online Conference on the issue of copyrights in the classroom. I thought I would expand on this, and discuss how copyrights come into play in college and university classrooms. … Continue Reading
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Winter 2010 – 12:30pm
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. … Continue Reading
Comm 10 Student Blogs – Winter 2010 – 8:00am
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. … Continue Reading
Failure: The New Success
I’m a big believer that in order to succeed, we must first fail. Sometimes, the more miserably we fail, the greater our success will be. This is why I was especially impacted by this video. It illustrates why we need to fail before we can succeed. The stories are riveting, the visuals are compelling, and the moral of the story comes through clearly. … Continue Reading
Welcome to January
Advertisers know what you’ve been up to over the holidays – gaining weight! They also know that you’ve been making new years resolutions aimed at taking off the weight you’ve recently (or maybe not so recently) put on. So, invariably, after the holiday music and endless marathons of A Christmas Story cease until next December, we begin seeing ads aimed to help us lose weight. … Continue Reading
Kanye West – Idiot, Meanie, or Genius
A debate has begun swirling around the water cooler about Kanye West’s behavior at the MTV Video Music Awards. It’s not about whether he should apologize to Taylor Swift for his actions, or even whether radio stations should ban his music. This debate involves the notion that Kanye’s actions were nothing more than a publicity stunt, perpetrated by Kanye himself, or if he had help from the show’s producers and maybe even Taylor Swift herself. … Continue Reading