Media Through Our Eyes

Another website shared by Administration at Highland Tech High.
The news map websiteuses word tags from articles and a cloud tag app to tell "bite-sized" stories about what is happening in the world. More interesting is the perspective from different countries.

As we speak about stories at Ourreality, it is very helpful to ask the question who owns who and what are they getting out of it. Or simply put, what is the story behind the product?

Often we will begin to see connections behind the product, how it is being advertised, why it is being advertised and so forth. 

Which is why I am sharing this wonderful site sent by a phenomenal teacher in Alaska. The Nation has put together a visual way of seing this breakdown. 

The deadline is fast approaching. Please help us get the word out far and wide! Thank you!
 

This picture is coming from a March 2008 posting in Reuters

As students working on UAD 2008 ,they are entering the last part of the curriculum, which asks for them to consider creating individual pictures to tell a whole story. Thus the idea that a picture tells a thousand words.  

New York timesrecently published an article about how some libraries are including video games in the library contending that this will/ can encourage kids to pick up a book and read. 

Furthermore the article states:

Best Ads on TV website publishes a weekly podcast (as welll as on their website), the best ads from around the world. BE AWARE, however, there is some explicit material, so watch before you show your students!!! 

They have categories for best print, tv and interactive. here is a sampling below: 

Check out this article on the statistics of alcohol on the us. 

The Year in Beer: Beer Drinking in America by Volume 

It caught my eye, yesterday when I was reading some articles on CNN. But when it was mentioned again to me by my husband, I had to ask, ok, what is up with this? 

He pointed out that we were not the only ones asking the questions, who would invest in a mortgage right now, after looking at a dancing girl banner ad. The undulating bodies always disappoints me as I think about another ad being sold with sex. Yet, it grabbed my attention, which is exactly what an ad wants to do. 

I am sure many of you have been following the presidential debates, which is what has lead me on this wild goose chase today. I began to ask 1 too many questions! 

I watched the debates online through ABC or MSNBC, whichever I can connect to quicker. Which also means that I do not often see any type of commercials (except for the one in the beginning that I usually miss because the volume is off, and I am setting up the "viewing area.")

Recently I was given the wonderful opportunity to attend a New Mexico Media Literacy Catalyst Training Session with Andrea Quijada. She introduced me to the concept of really viewing media through lenses. In other words, when we view media, we have a particular lens that we view it through that is based on our preconceived ideas formulated through experience in our environment. When we are asked to change this lens, than we are able to view the media from another lens.