About the Site

OUR VISION

We envision Teaching Media as a site where critical media scholars can share pedagogical resources and talk about undergraduate teaching, in all its frustrations and joys. Teaching Media is a collaborative space built on the collective efforts and pooled knowledge of media educators. We’re counting on your generosity and participation, on your willingness to share your teaching ideas, insights, problems, and resources. While many of the resources gathered on this site may be available on-line elsewhere, we hope that what will make this site useful to media scholars is the contextualization and discussion of teaching resources and ideas this site facilitates.

RESOURCES

We collect four different categories of resources:

  1. Readings for Undergraduates
  2. Media Examples for the Classroom
  3. Assignments
  4. Syllabi

Thanks to Erin Copple Smith and Anne Helen Petersen, we have a very active FACEBOOK group where folks regularly discuss teaching ideas and issues.

We also publish the Journal of  Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Dossier.

USING THE SITE

This is a WordPress site. In order to post your teaching resources, you’ll need to learn a little bit about using WordPress. Here are some basic instructions and guidelines to help get you started.

About the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Dossier

JCMS and TeachingMedia.org have formed a partnership to develop a quarterly feature called the JCMS Teaching Dossier. The goals of this partnership are to foster critical reflection on media studies teaching and pedagogy and to engender serious discussion of pedagogical issues via an active online platform. Topic ideas for Teaching Dossiers will originate with input from the SCMS Teaching Committee and will be approved by a representative of both JCMS and TeachingMedia.org before being disseminated as calls for submissions.

Each Teaching Dossier will be overseen by a pair of editors. The editors will craft a call for submissions and shepherd submissions from acceptance to publication, as well as write an introductory essay for the Dossier.

Each Teaching Dossier will feature 4-6 essays on a similar pedagogical topic. Each essay should be between 1300-1800 words and written in scholarly prose appropriate for professional journal publication. Authors are also encouraged to take advantage of the online platform and utilize links, images, and multimedia in their posts. Citation format should be Chicago.

Submissions will be solicited via open calls, as well as targeted invitations. Those wishing to submit an essay for a Teaching Dossier should provide a 300-word abstract of the proposed essay, describing the essay topic and how it connects to the Dossier topic, as well as a 150-word teaching biography highlighting relevant courses taught. Even in the case of invited submissions, the approval process will be competitive, and only the best proposals will be accepted.

Once proposals are accepted, authors will have approximately two months to complete their essays. Essays will be submitted to the Dossier editors, who will then put the essays through a rigorous editorial process, which may include blind peer-review editorial board oversight. Authors may be asked to conduct revisions on their essays, and the editors may decline to include an essay in the Dossier if it is deemed to be substandard or insufficiently revised according to editorial demands.

Once final drafts of the essays are approved by the editors and representatives of JCMS and TeachingMedia.org, the Teaching Dossier materials will be submitted to TeachingMedia.org at least one week in advance of the anticipated posting date.

Contributor Guidelines

  • Submit your contribution as a word doc to issue editors.
  • Embed all hyperlinks.
  • Your document should be single-spaced. Separate paragraphs with a hard return, and do not indent the first line.
  • Please use parenthetical citations only. No footnotes or endnotes please.
  • Bold subheadings.
  • Send images separately as JPG files.
  • Clearly indicate where you’d like images and videos inserted. Provide captions as necessary.
  • We cannot upload movie files directly into posts. Please provide a url for all videos you’d like to feature in your post.
  • Include your bio at the conclusion of your post after the list of references.

Editors

Christine Becker, co-founding editor, Department of Film, Television and Theater, University of Notre Dame.

Julia Himberg, managing co-editor, Department of English, Arizona State University

Anthony Nadler, co-founding and managing co-editor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Ursinus College

Erin Wiegand, web editor, Department of Media Studies, Northumbria University

Julie Wilson, co-founding editor and managing co-editor, Department of Communication Arts and Theater, Allegheny College