Jan. 31 - Feb. 4, 2011: Media Literacy / Participatory Culture

Please help SKSS students win the Vancouver Sun's video contest.

Click and view their entry Teens Against Gangs video

Fri. Feb. 4 - Media, Participatory Culture, and You.
- Blks. F and G: Finish film Rip: A Remix Manifesto
- Blk. F: Paragraph assignment
- Introduce A Tale of Two Media project
- In the lab, set up your Google Docs account.
- The project template can be selected into your Google Docs account.
- Try a Creative Commons image search.


Thurs. Feb. 3 - Media, Participatory Culture, and You.

• Today, we'll finish watching the documentary film Rip: A Remix Manifesto
• See the study guide for this film
• Paragraph topic: Is remixing content a legitimate form of creativity, or is it intellectual property theft?

Wed. Feb. 2 - Media, Participatory Culture, and You.

• Today, we're watching the documentary film Rip: A Remix Manifesto
• See the study guide for this film
  
• This film was made by a British Columbian, and it can be viewed on YouTube
• Creative Commons Licensing (some rights reserved) is now a popular alternative to copyright (all rights reserved). See the Canadian Creative Commons. Try designing a Creative Commons License.
• Many content sharing sites, such as Flickr, provide Creative Commons Licensing options. Wikimedia Commons and Google Advanced Search option can help users find Creative Commons Licensed images for re-use.

Tues. Feb. 1 - New Media Literacies

- Review how to disable Facebook Places.
- Review new media literacy skills terminology.
- Introduce A Tale of Two Media project
- The project template can be selected into your Google Docs account.




These two MIT videos will be viewed and discussed in class.




Mon. Jan. 31 - Welcome to English 10.
Today we will review the course outline and expectations.
Discussion Items:

• Seating plan
• Course blog
• Silent reading
• Study block 
• Academic aspirations
• Evaluation 
• Assignment completion
• Essays
• Tests
• Re-writes / add-on assignment
  
• Government final exam
• Email contact (assignments only)
• Literary theme(s) of this course: overcoming challenges, power dynamics
• Media literacy unit: new / old media; participatory culture; copyright / copyleft; media scams; social media ethics / law

Old Media, New Media and Participatory Culture 

- Understand the distinctions between old media and new media.
- Create a comparative mind map diagram representing types of old and new media that you consume and produce.
- You will have about 3 weeks to plan and complete the Tale of Two Media Project ( 47 marks ). You will have class time and lab time to work on this.

MIT professor Henry Jenkins discusses participatory culture, media literary, and civic engagement:




What's your Media IQ? Try the online quiz.
Do you know about copyright, copyleft, and Creative Commons?

Creative Commons : Spectrum of Rights

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