Category Archives: Assignments

Trying to create meaningful assignments that encourage students to develop critical thinking and demonstrate course-related competencies? This category is for media instructors to share assignment ideas from their classes — from papers prompts to service learning projects to media production.

Videographic Exercises and Radical Pedagogy in the Classroom

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Catherine Fowler “You are in darkness. On the small rectangle of the editing table, imagery goes by. Slightly clenched on the control, … Continue reading

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Best Practice in the Inclusion of Video Essays in the School Curriculum

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Travis McKenzie Part 1: Concept development “Interpretation in the digital age can be expressed in an act of construction.” —Mirko Tobias Schäfer … Continue reading

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Authenticating Assessment through the Video Essay–A Pilot Case Study

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy  Sean Redmond and Joanna Tai, Deakin University Within the Higher Education sector there is an increased focus upon authentic assessment where learning … Continue reading

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Relative Radicalism: Creating Formally Experimental Assignments Grounded in Argument

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Vincent Longo What does it mean to be a radical audiovisual essayist, pedagogue, and educator? Within the field of media studies, the … Continue reading

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Bridging the Theory/Practice Divide through Audiovisual Essays

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy  Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin Many teachers in the field of screen studies are all too familiar with the split between … Continue reading

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Creative Encounters with Film History: Thomas Edison Then/Now

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2) Revisiting the Film History Survey Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University I regularly teach a course on “Film History to 1940” at North Carolina State University. In the fall of 2015, I began incorporating … Continue reading

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Teaching Film History to Production Students

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2)Revisiting the Film History SurveyChad Newsom, Savannah College of Art and Design How does teaching the film history survey change when instructing production students? When I first began to teach history surveys to undergraduate and … Continue reading

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Experiments with Pedagogy’s Forms

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Tara McPherson, University of Southern California   “The educator also has the duty of not being neutral”  (Paulo Freire and Horton, 1990: 180).  I have never understood teaching to … Continue reading

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Our networks will be anti-racist and our pedagogy critical

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Mihaela Brebenel, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Introductions I write this in the time of historical repetitions: once more, the rise of ethno-nationalisms and racism in Central and … Continue reading

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Public education in cinema: Resistance pedagogies for student teachers

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1)  Nisha Thapliyal, University of Newcastle, Australia   I teach at a four-year undergraduate teacher education program in a regional Australian university, close to Sydney. The mission of our teacher education … Continue reading

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