media in general
NHK Creative Library
Submitted Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 15:31Description:
A collection of remarkable video bits about various subjects of interest, from wildlife to Japanese culture. Easily reusable because mostly without comentary voice over. Good production quality. As the site in entirely in Japanese it is difficult to browse the site but with Google Translate the site can be accessed with little difficulty.
URL:
Table of contents:
n/a
System requirements:
Browser with flash player plau gin
Additional comments:
Site is in japanese but can be accessed with Google Translate
Eurocreator
Submitted Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 08:37Description:
EuroCreator is an educational initiative designed to encourage students and teachers throughout Europe to create at least one piece of media. To support this initiative, the EuroCreator website has been developed to facilitate educators and recognise and reward the creativity of young people. EuroCreator offers a pan European platform for students and educators to get creative and share their work.
The website will be delivered in 10 European languages and offers certification from the EU Commissioner for Education, Youth & Culture, Ján Figel'
Table of contents:
Animation, Digital Media, Eurocreator, Podcast. User Generated, Video
How to embed video in classroom presentations
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
How to embed video in presentations
Year:
2004
MediaEd
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
MediaEd is the site for media and moving image education in the UK. On this site you'll find teaching ideas, lesson plans and project reports, examples of student work, details of where you can get support and training or find workshops or education screenings for your students. MediaEd is currently still under construction so your feedback would be really useful.
Year:
up-to-date
Table of contents:
Get started with…
• Teaching about film
• Teaching film-making
• Media literacy
Find…
• Teaching ideas
• Student work
• Resources
• Organisations
• Discussion
• What’s on
Reframing literacy
System requirements:
Adobe Reader (optional)
Just Think
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
Flipping the Script is a project of Just Think, a media education nonprofit that has been working with youth and educators since 1995. Just Think teaches young people to understand, evaluate, and create media messages. We deliver vital programs that foster critical thinking and creative media production, believing that the independent voices of youth can powerfully impact local and global communities.
Year:
up-to-date
Table of contents:
About
• Board
• History
• Mission
• Newsletter
• Partner
• Sponsored Projects
• Staff
Support
• Donate
• Sponsors
• Volunteer
Programs
• After School
• Family Education
• International
• Media Ed Art & Lit
• Past Programs
• Peer Healrh
• Ignite your mind
• Youth Media
• Educators
Resources
• Alternative Media
• Going green
• Links to think
• Media Guides
• Quick Facts
• Teaching Tools
• Youth Resources
Curricula
• Changing the world
• Flipping the script
• Health and media
• Hidden heroes
• Poetic License
• Senior Year
Products
• Accessoires
• Publications
• USB-TV
Media
• Associate blog
• Education blog
• Founder blog
• Press Released
• YME blog
• Youth Media
System requirements:
Adobe Reader
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
Year:
2003
Length:
20 pages
Table of contents:
What this is
What this isn’t
How this document was created
Media literacy education
Use of media in education vs. media literacy education
Copyright: a contentious climate
Fair use and education
Fair use
The tyranny of guidelines and experts
Code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education
• General points about principles
• Principles
Common myths about fair use
System requirements:
Adobe Reader, Flash
The New Mexico Media Literacy Project
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
Media literacy - the ability to critically consume and create media - is an essential skill in today's world. Media literacy education seeks to give kids and adults greater freedom by empowering them to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media.
Table of contents:
Why media literacy?
Media literacy concepts
Text & Subtext
The language of persuasion
Deconstructing media
Deconstruction gallery
Creating counter-ads
Looking beyond the frame
Making media
Independent media
Taking action
Links
System requirements:
QuickTime
Media Smart
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
Media Smart develops and provides, free of charge and on request, educational materials to primary schools that teach children to think critically about advertising in the context of their daily lives.
Our materials use real examples of advertising to teach core media literacy skills.
Table of contents:
Kids
• About us
• Games
• House Hippo
• Quiz
• What do you think?
• Downloads
Parents
• Media Glossary
• Media literacy and your child
• Tell us what you think
Teachers
• Our materials
• Media literacy skills & curriculum links
• Order our materials
• Evaluation Research
• Feedback
About
• Media literacy core skills and learning objectives
• Key documents on media literacy
• Expert group
• Our research
• Supporters
• What others say about us
• Take up in schools
• Facts and figures
• Reviews
• Watch our infomercial
• FAQs
• Contact us
System requirements:
Adobe Reader, Flash
Listen Up!
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support, and projects in order to develop the field and achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass media.
Year:
up-to-date
Table of contents:
Screening room
• Watch Media
• How to submit
• Submit media
Network
• Network directory
• Network map
• Join us
Resources
• Production tools
• Funding tools
• Festival guide
• Youth media in practice
• Research links
News
• News
• Events
• Festival calls for entry
• Funding
• Jobs
Projects
About us
System requirements:
Adobe Reader, Quicktime
KQED education
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
KQED Education Network engages with community and educational organizations to broaden and deepen the impact of KQED media to effect positive change. Through parent education and professional development workshops, public screenings, multimedia resources, and special events, Education Network reaches more than 200,000 Bay Area residents a year and serves people of all ages, with a particular emphasis on reaching underserved communities.
Year:
up-to-date
Table of contents:
Early Learning
• Early Childhood Educators
o Hands On Literacy
o Workshops
o A place of our own workshops
• Parents & kids
o Media as a learning tool
o Reading Rainbow
o Sesame Street View & Do
o Workshops
• Community Partners
• KidsWatch
• PBS Kids Raising Readers
Educators
• Arts
• Science
• Social Studies/Language Arts
o Election Resources
• Post Secondary Education
Digital Media Center
• Media Literacy
o Key Concepts
o Framework
o Glossary
o Resources
o Copyright & Media Education
o Video for English Learners
• Teachers’ Domain
Community Engagement
Curriculum Bank
• Adult Learning
• Language Arts
• Math
• Media Studies
• Science
• Social Studies
• Study Skills/ESL
• Visual & Performing Arts
• Visual & Performing Arts: Literary Arts
System requirements:
Adobe Reader, Quicktime