Media Through Our Eyes

This excellent Ted Talks explains the importance of how our Brain makes meaning. The implications for this content can greatly help us to create better media. It is suggested that the following methods for having greater meaning include:

1. Use images to clarify what we want to communicate

2. Make images interactive, to engage more fully

3. Make Images persistent

One of the elements of media literacy is to also be able to evaluate web content as well. Free Technology for Teachers posted an article sometime ago about evaluating websites.

He shared 9 excellent resources for evaluating websites:Read below or check out his linked version here!

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This year we have been focusing on creating content for our online participants. The idea behind this was for our participants to be access lessons, materials and resources anytime, anywhere. So as a result, we created a series of interactive online lessons for teachers to use to train themselves to integrate Media Literacy into their classrooms, while creating powerful media within their content area.

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As I finish working on media lessons and posting and sharing about the importance of learning Media Literacy, I came across a Ted Talks about sound. So I will share it here, and link it as well in the lesson on Media and Emotions.

The Big Ad Gig
Enter Now if You've Got What it Takes
If only there was an American Idol for bright, young advertising creatives looking for The Big Ad Gig they deserve. Turns out just such a competition is taking place during this year’s Advertising Week. Check out www.thebigadgig.com for more details, but do it now -  deadline for submission is September 7, 2009.

This comes from MakeBlog:

In the future, kid scientists will keep companies legit...

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As I begin a new year of Media Literacy I think more and more about Media in the social networking arenas. Those of us who use Facebook see the prevalence of social marketing. If you have not seen it yet, checkout the ads on the side bar. You can choose the best type of ad to fit your needs! I sure hated those Zombie ads, so after clicking the thumbs down several times, I was finally rid of them and back to some ads I could mostly ignore!