Category Archives: Presentations

Short Assignment: Using Anti-Surveillance Tools

The purpose of this assignment is to ask student groups to give brief presentations on how to use online, anti-surveillance tools and analyze potential benefits and drawbacks of these tools.  I include this assignment after students have read and discussed … Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Creative Projects, Digital Media/Video Games/Technology, Media Studies, General, Presentations, Teaching with Technology | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Foregrounding Context Through Paratexts

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Charlotte Howell  University of Texas at Austin   The naturalized primacy of the text has a firm grip on many students’ relation to media, but I have found using paratexts in … Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Creative Projects, Group Projects, Media Examples for the Classroom, Presentations, Social Media, Teaching with Technology | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Parapedagogy: Teaching Film Analysis from the Digital Periphery

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1(3) Fall 2013  Lynne Stahl  Cornell University   At a time when humanities instructors feel perpetual pressure to make courses “sexy” and “relevant” to attract students to majors with dwindling enrollments, many attempt to do … Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Group Projects, Media Examples for the Classroom, Presentations, Teaching with Technology, Writing Assignments/Research Papers | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Teaching the Annotated Video Essay with Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1(2) Spring/Summer 2013  Jennifer Proctor  University of Michigan-Dearborn   Click image to link to site     Jennifer Proctor is an assistant professor in journalism and screen studies whose courses integrating Popcorn Maker and other … Continue reading

Posted in Creative Projects, Presentations, Teaching with Technology | Leave a comment

Group Television Pitches

I have my Introduction to Critical Media Studies students read “Consuming Race on Nickelodeon” by Sarah Banet-Weiser from her book Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship.  This reading is part of a broader unit that focuses on media culture, representation, … Continue reading

Posted in Creative Projects, Group Projects, Presentations, Readings for Undergraduates | Leave a comment

Digital Media Tutorial Project

Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Creative Projects, Group Projects, Presentations | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Media Intervention Final Project

Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Creative Projects, Group Projects, Presentations | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Prezi! Excellent non-linear presentation/mind-map software!

Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Creative Projects, Group Projects, Presentations | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Class debate on media policy

Continue reading

Posted in Group Projects, Presentations | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Judith Williamson, Decoding Advertisements

I’ve found Judith Williamson’s Decoding Advertisements incredibly useful for introducing students to semiotics, ideology and subjectivity, as well as the critical study of advertising. I usually use Chapters One and Two. Students find the reading to be challenging, but I help them out a bit with this handout, which is my breakdown of her key points about advertising, subjects, and ideology. You’ll also find my guidelines for student presentations: I ask students to use Williamson to conduct their own critical analysis of an advertisement which they present to the class. Continue reading

Posted in Assignments, Presentations, Readings for Undergraduates | Tagged , | Leave a comment