Teaching Transformation Fellowship Project Annoucnement

Art Silverblatt
Professor, Media Communications
Communications & Journalism Department

1. MEDC 1630 Media Literacy
2. MEDC/INTL 3260 International Communication

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Teaching Transformation Fellowship
Abstract

 

The goals of this project are to develop the use technology to enhance teaching and learning in three areas:

* To develop new visual and audio course materials that illustrate, extend, and support the principles of media literacy. This involves developing ‘compilation” presentations, consisting of clips from a variety of programs, media, and formats, which document cumulative messages in the media, provide insight into the worldview of media presentations, and identify instances of media stereotyping.

* To convert current teaching materials to a format that facilitates learning in the classroom. Currently, many of these materials are on slides, “grabbed” as computer images, and on videotape. Converting these materials to one format, such as DVDs, will enhance the coherence of the classroom presentation, by making it easier to move from one set of examples to another. This would also enable me to edit the instructional materials by inserting new examples where appropriate.

* To make media programming (e.g., advertisements, news, entertainment, and political spots) accessible to students for primary research. This is particularly valuable for students conducting research in the area of international media presentations.