tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33650132634266294152024-03-14T06:03:22.448-04:00NCTE Media BlogStarted as the NCTE Assembly of Media Arts blog: the Assembly has transitioned to: The Media And Digital Literacies Collaborative. This blog is primarily aimed at those who teach English/Language Arts but who are also interested in the role of the media/technology in curriculum instruction.Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.comBlogger726125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-68510128497155423282015-04-30T20:32:00.005-04:002015-04-30T20:32:54.878-04:00Contribute Your Media Literacy Video Suggestions<div>
I invite you to contribute to a web page I started some time
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<br />Each of the categories contained on that URL include links to videos that can
be used to teach elements of media literacy.<br /><br />If you have suggestions for
videos you use, or have produced, please send them to me (fbaker1346@aol.com) in THIS
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-59676987020916082692015-03-02T15:07:00.002-05:002015-03-02T15:07:34.266-05:00How do filmmakers use STEAM? Here is how.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many media educators teach with and about media production, including film. But how many educators actually know how filmmakers utilize concepts in science, technology, engineering, arts and math? That's the question I sought to answer as I began to create <a href="http://www.frankwbaker.com/mlc/stemsteam-the-movies/">this new web page</a>. Comments, suggestions and additions welcome. Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-78137949592755160822015-02-10T15:02:00.002-05:002015-02-10T15:02:18.585-05:005 Ideas for Teaching Literary Analysis With Film<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414141; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Critiquing movies allows students to develop skills in literary analysis by deconstructing a work, finding evidence to support their critique and organizing their thoughts in a final analysis, middle-grades educator Heather Wolpert-Gawron writes in <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-film-teach-analysis-skills-heather-wolpert-gawron">this blog post.</a> She shares five project ideas -- incorporating the work of film critic Roger Ebert -- for using film criticism when teaching literary analysis.</span></div>
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-78897614782863956772015-02-09T11:38:00.002-05:002015-02-09T11:38:23.170-05:00Fair Use for the Visual Arts (New Report) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #383838; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices/fair-use-visual-arts">Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices/fair-use-visual-arts"> </a>is based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who, through discussion groups, identified best practices for using such materials. They included art and architectural historians, artists, designers, curators, museum directors, educators, rights and reproduction officers, and editors at scholarly publishers and journals.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-18956525970509490482014-12-29T20:39:00.002-05:002014-12-29T20:39:32.441-05:00Cracking the Sitcom Code<a data-mce-href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/cracking-the-sitcom-code/384068/" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/cracking-the-sitcom-code/384068/" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">"Cracking the Sitcom Code"</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, an essay in The Atlantic online, is must reading for teachers (and students) of this popular media genre. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Excerpt: " </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">From </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Simpsons</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Seinfeld</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, from </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Everybody Loves Raymond</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Everybody Hates Chris</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, from </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Taxi</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Arrested Development</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Parks & Recreation</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, there is a highly-specific, minute-by-minute recipe used to write the vast majority of sitcoms out there. And once you know the formula, it makes it much easier to write them, and much harder to watch them without seeing that formula—the “sitcom code”—everywhere you look."</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-85685242634250964862014-12-21T19:43:00.002-05:002014-12-21T19:43:36.945-05:00TV Special Features Creative Process of Producing TV Sitcoms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.paleycenter.org/now-thats-funny-paley-center-for-media-special">"Now That’s Funny! On Set with TV’s Hottest Comedies: A Paley Center for Media Special,”</a> airs on the CBS Television Network on Friday, December 26 at 8:00pm ET (check your local listings). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This one-of-a-kind program will give viewers a look inside the intricate process of getting television’s funniest shows on the air each week. From the brainstorming in the writers room, to the informal hilarity of the table read, to the energy and spontaneity of the actual performance, audiences will see how their favorite shows continue to keep fans laughing. </span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-88537587196678458782014-12-20T13:32:00.004-05:002014-12-20T13:32:31.601-05:00Writers Speak To Kids (Videos)<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.018196105957px;">In this NBC Learn special collection, </span><a href="http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/writers-speak-to-kids" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.018196105957px; position: static !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Writers Speak to Kids</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.018196105957px;">, children‘s book authors share their writing experiences to help students learn more about the craft and techniques of creative writing. </span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-36941074487943139382014-11-27T20:13:00.002-05:002014-11-27T20:13:56.878-05:00Buzzworthy/Award Film Screenplays Appear Online<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.018196105957px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
Last week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter contains the first "For Your Consideration" ads, as it is the start of the film screening/nomination process. And it's not just the Academy Awards that the film studios are advertising to. It's also the Director's Guild, the Cinematography Guild and all of the others.</div>
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So the November 14 issue was wrapped with the ad for "How to Train Your Dragon 2" which contains this URL: <a href="http://dwaawards.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" target="_blank" title="http://dwaawards.com/">http://dwaawards.com/</a><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" />Another ad for "The BoxTrolls" urges readers to go to: <a href="http://www.focusguilds2014.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" target="_blank" title="http://www.focusguilds2014.com/">www.FocusGuilds2014.com</a><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" />(The screenplays for "Theory of Everything", "BoxTrolls" ,"Kills The Messenger:", "Bad Words", and "Wish I Was There" can be found there)<br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" />Speaking of writing, THR starts their season of roundtable discussions/videos in this issue with writers:<br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/writer-roundtable-chris-rock-gillian-745744" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" target="_blank" title="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/writer-roundtable-chris-rock-gillian-745744">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/writer-roundtable-chris-rock-...</a></div>
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This issue also features a the making of featured on "The Imitation Game"</div>
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<br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" />It’s that time of year again when studios make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season. As in years past,<a href="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" target="_blank">GoIntoTheStory</a> is tracking them and posting links as they become available.</div>
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Current total of 2014 scripts for download: <strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">7</strong><strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">.</strong></div>
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Newly added script in bold below:</div>
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<a href="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Boxtrolls-The.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" title="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Boxtrolls-The.pdf">Get On Up</a> (Universal Pictures)</div>
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<a href="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Boxtrolls-The.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" title="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Boxtrolls-The.pdf">The Boxtrolls</a> (Focus Features)</div>
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<a href="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Fault-In-Our-Stars-Shooting-Script.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" title="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Fault-In-Our-Stars-Shooting-Script.pdf">The Fault In Our Stars</a><strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"> </strong>(20th Century Fox)</div>
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<a href="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Theory-of-Everything-The.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff69dd; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" title="http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Theory-of-Everything-The.pdf">The Theory of Everything</a> (Focus Features)</div>
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Studios also make production notes available:</div>
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-51132481161532136962014-11-17T19:08:00.001-05:002014-11-17T19:08:54.914-05:00Bring History, Journalism and the First Amendment to Life<div style="background-color: white; color: #606666; font-family: Helevetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
The <strong>Newseum</strong> in Washington, D.C., now offers a <strong>Digital Classroom</strong> with high-quality, standards-based, document-driven instruction. Focused on <strong>historical inquiry</strong>, <strong>media</strong> <strong>literacy</strong>, <strong>critical thinking</strong>, <strong>document analysis</strong> and <strong>civic engagement</strong>, Newseum Education’s Digital Classroom features a wide variety of engaging interactive content for middle school through college teaching and learning. A library of 12 <strong>captioned</strong> and beautifully produced <strong>video lessons</strong>, complete with <strong>viewing guides</strong>, <strong>essential</strong> <strong>questions</strong> and <strong>lesson plans</strong>, focus on <strong>critical media literacy</strong> issues such as<strong><em> Bias, Getting It Right</em></strong> (accuracy in media), <strong><em>What’s News</em></strong>and <strong><em>Sources</em></strong>. <strong>Historical video lessons</strong> cover such topics as <strong><em>The Berlin Wall and the Press</em></strong>, <strong><em>The Press and the Civil Rights Movement</em></strong>, <strong><em>Watergate</em></strong> and <strong><em>45 Words</em></strong> (the First Amendment). Currently, three comprehensive <strong>modules</strong> aggregate a wealth of resources and activities. The latest addition, <strong><em>Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less</em></strong>, investigates the suffragists’ pioneering use of the free press and the other First Amendment freedoms. Students<em> </em>explore more than 250 primary sources in three interactives. Using an<strong>interactive timeline</strong> and the <strong>map of</strong> <strong>persuasive materials</strong>, they see how and why movement participants dared to challenge the status quo. Then they discover their legacy in contemporary civil rights issues and build their own case for change today. A <strong>library of primary sources</strong> connects to each of the modules: 150 documents on <strong><em>Women’s Rights</em></strong>, <strong><em>Blood and Ink: 30 Historic Front</em></strong> <strong><em>Pages</em></strong><em> <strong>from the Civil War</strong></em> and<strong><em>Emancipation Proclamation Front Pages</em></strong>. Documents may be downloaded <em>freely </em>as full-sized PDFs to facilitate examination by students. Activities connect to a variety of standards documents in language arts and social studies from middle school through high school.</div>
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-62129488163640282072014-11-10T19:41:00.002-05:002014-11-10T19:41:04.213-05:00CFP: News Literacy- Special Issue of Journalism Education<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">This special issue of <i>Journalism
Education </i>is devoted to the emerging field of news literacy. It aims to provide
new understanding, approaches, and foundations for how we understand the
competencies that future journalists – professionals and citizens alike -- need
to effectively report news stories that demand attention in digital culture
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Contributions to this special issue will identify and critique a range
of factors that are facing journalism and media educators. In recognizing the pedagogical
challenges engendered by the destabilization of traditional models for news,
this issue calls for theoretical treatments of the term ‘news literacy’ as a
productive basis for rethinking media literacy and public engagement in civic
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Paul Mihailidis is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies
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Emerson’s Engagement Lab. He also Directs the Salzburg Academy on Media and
Global Change. He newest book is titled <i>Media
Literacy and the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in
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Stephanie Craft’s is an Associate
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Her research, focusing on news literacy, press practices and journalism ethics,
has appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Mass
Media Ethics, Communication Law & Policy, Mass Communication & Society,
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, and Journalism & Mass
Communication Educator. With Charles Davis, she is author of the textbook
Principles of American Journalism, published by Routledge. Before earning a
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-14404973423801191152014-10-21T16:52:00.001-04:002014-10-21T16:52:02.620-04:00If you think film belongs only in ELA or the Arts– think again<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.9950008392334px;">Using film in the classroom isn’t a perk reserved for English and drama. Teacher Elizabeth Evans, writing in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/oct/21/using-film-teaching-arts-think-again-cross-curricular">The Guardian,</a> explores how science, geography and maths students can also benefit.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-39138519143593795952014-10-19T10:47:00.002-04:002014-10-19T10:47:33.640-04:00Campaign Ads: Helping Students Find the Truth<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">If politicians have a “license to lie” in campaign advertising, how are our students to know who and what to believe? Critical thinking skills are paramount, says media literacy consultant Frank Baker, who <a href="http://www.middleweb.com/18374/campaign-ads-politicians-permission-lie/">shares insights and resources</a> tied to Common Core and social studies standards.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-13080403425155409742014-10-01T16:14:00.006-04:002014-10-25T14:48:17.756-04:00The important role costume plays in the language of film<span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I've just written </span><a href="http://www.middleweb.com/17946/costume-design-part-language-film/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: beige; color: olivedrab; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">another essay</a><span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> about "close reading," "film analysis," and the important role costume design plays in films. Common Core ELA makes several references to film in middle grades, so studying what a character wears might be relevant. (There are also a number of Read/Write/Think </span><a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=film%20costumes%20site%3Areadwritethink.org" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: beige; color: olivedrab; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">lessons related to costuming</a><span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I maintain a </span><a href="http://frankwbaker.com/lof_costumes.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: beige; color: olivedrab; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">web page of teaching ideas and resources</a><span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> related to film costume on my </span><a href="http://frankwbaker.com/language_of_film" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: beige; color: olivedrab; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">Language of Film website</a><span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" />
<span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Coincidentally, </span><a href="http://www.oscars.org/hollywoodcostume/index.html#tickets" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: beige; color: olivedrab; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">"Hollywood Costume"</a><span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">-- a major exhibition-- opens in early October in Los Angeles. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" />
<span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">And with the 75th anniversary of "Gone With The Wind" underway, there is a new exhibit in Austin Texas. There is also an excellent companion online resource </span><a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/gonewiththewind/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: beige; color: olivedrab; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">"Producing Gone With The Wind,"</a><span style="background-color: beige; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><u> </u>which details how the film came to be adapted from the popular Margaret Mitchell novel.</span>
Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-79803518852061263282014-09-10T09:41:00.002-04:002014-09-10T09:41:34.408-04:00Resource: Picturing US History: Building visual literacy<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using photos, videos, and other types of images is one of the most effective ways to hook kids into your content. Images can create emotion, explain events, generate questions, and help solve problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But sometimes it can be difficult integrating visuals into your instruction. What images to use? What activities work best? How can you align these activities with national and state standards?</span></div>
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-61090845581246399412014-08-24T14:45:00.001-04:002014-08-24T14:45:05.431-04:00Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years – A Textbook for 21st Century Educators<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Here’s a look at this new book's contributors and their chapters. It’s a line-up of some of the most important thought leaders in the field of young children, media literacy and educational technology: - See more <a href="http://digitalmediadiet.com/?p=3246#sthash.GvNbONjF.dpuf">here</a>. </span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-14457480978258544162014-08-21T21:08:00.001-04:002014-08-21T21:10:15.192-04:00NCTE 2014 Media Literacy Award Recipient Named<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">University of Buffalo (NY) Graduate School of Education doctoral student Denise Grandits, a middle school literature teacher in St. Amelia School in Tonawanda, is the latest recipient of the Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Read more <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/campus/campus-host-page.host.html/content/shared/university/news/ub-reporter%20articles/stories/2014/August/grandits_media_award.detail.html#sthash.iKinCl4A.dpuf">here</a>.<br /><br /> </span></span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-9614606585953671342014-08-17T11:03:00.003-04:002014-08-17T11:03:21.556-04:00Close Reading of Media Texts<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've recently created <a href="http://www.frankwbaker.com/mlc/close-reading-of-media-texts/">this new website</a>--which combines various resources for those educators who teach "close reading analysis" of media texts. The <a href="http://www.frankwbaker.com/mlc/close-reading-of-media-texts/">new page</a> features essays I've written as well as resources from other reliable sources.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-84394630424264010212014-08-06T17:26:00.002-04:002014-08-06T17:26:16.801-04:00How to Close Read the Language of Film<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;">When students are challenged to “close read” a movie, they must not only learn how to deconstruct the story, they must understand the many elements and techniques that are used by filmmakers to create the total effect, says expert Frank Baker, </span><a href="http://www.middleweb.com/16848/close-read-language-film/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">writng in this series about close reading</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;"> for MiddleWeb.<br /><br />Additionally, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) offers educators <a href="http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/teachersguide/">these free, downloadable teacher guides</a> which are excellent resources for introducing and reinforcing the "languages of film."</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-27579652089520226862014-08-05T11:44:00.001-04:002014-08-05T11:44:07.151-04:00Fourth Graders Demonstrate Media Literacy & Graphicacy In Magazine Cover Production Activity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">Every year our fourth graders complete a state project. Instead of doing the usual travel brochure or poster with their research, we decided to have them pitch their states by designing a travel magazine cover. It sounds simple, but it actually incorporated the skills of </span><a href="http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/media%20literacy" style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;" target="_blank">media literacy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"> and </span><a href="http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/graphicacy" style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;" target="_blank">graphicacy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">. On the one hand, it required them to think about the message, and on the other, to </span><a href="http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/graphicacy-4-steps-to-understanding.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;" target="_blank">visually construct</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><u> </u>the design to sell it. More from <a href="http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/media-literacy-and-graphicacy-4th.html">the ASIDE blog</a>.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-12025257625293485482014-07-26T11:07:00.000-04:002014-07-26T11:07:00.342-04:00Resource: Powerful Voices for Kids<br />
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<b><a href="http://powerfulvoicesforkids.com/" style="color: #157bd7; text-decoration: none;">POWERFUL VOICES FOR KIDS</a> </b>is a free online resource that helps teacher educators introduce digital and media literacy to teachers in the elementary grades. Watch videos of classroom practice, see samples of student work, get lesson plans, and discuss strategies that help children build literacy, language, critical thinking, creative and collaborative skills by exploring mass media, popular culture and digital media tools and technologies.</div>
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<a href="http://powerfulvoicesforkids.com/ideas" style="color: #157bd7; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">IDEAS </a>for exploring digital and media literacy in elementary school include: </div>
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<li style="background: url(http://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/mediaeducationlab.com/themes/framework/images/menu-leaf.gif) 1px 0.35em no-repeat transparent; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.15em 0px 0.15em 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0.2em 1.5em;"><a href="http://powerfulvoicesforkids.com/ideas/power-psa" style="color: #157bd7; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Power of the PSA</a></li>
<li style="background: url(http://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/mediaeducationlab.com/themes/framework/images/menu-leaf.gif) 1px 0.35em no-repeat transparent; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.15em 0px 0.15em 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0.2em 1.5em;"><a href="http://powerfulvoicesforkids.com/ideas/city-classroom" style="color: #157bd7; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">City as Classroom</a></li>
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<li style="background: url(http://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/mediaeducationlab.com/themes/framework/images/menu-leaf.gif) 1px 0.35em no-repeat transparent; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.15em 0px 0.15em 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0.2em 1.5em;"><a href="http://powerfulvoicesforkids.com/ideas/remix-play-media-literacy" style="color: #157bd7; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Remix Play as Media Literacy</a></li>
<li style="background: url(http://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/mediaeducationlab.com/themes/framework/images/menu-leaf.gif) 1px 0.35em no-repeat transparent; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.15em 0px 0.15em 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0.2em 1.5em;"><a href="http://powerfulvoicesforkids.com/ideas/making-inferences" style="color: #157bd7; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Making Inferences</a></li>
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Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-56505903311077349942014-07-25T19:01:00.004-04:002014-07-26T20:24:22.043-04:00Ideas for Teaching With/About Film In A Common Core Environment<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are <a href="http://theteachingfactor.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/media-literacy-lessons-from-the-jacob-burns-film-center-summer-teacher-institute/">some key ideas</a> (written in a blog post by a participant in the Jacob Burns Film Center Summer Teacher Institute) that can be applied in any classroom relating to teaching media literacy and film studies.</span></span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-15248337577659925792014-07-22T16:20:00.003-04:002014-07-22T16:20:53.402-04:00Close Reading of Advertising Promotes Critical Thinking<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">Advertising: it’s everywhere. As media literacy educators work to engage students in conversations about commercial marketing, we have to consider the close reading of print and video ads. <a href="http://www.middleweb.com/16528/close-reading-advertising/">Frank Baker provides starting points and resources</a> for teachers.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-40516870429819604862014-07-14T10:07:00.002-04:002014-07-14T10:07:24.207-04:00Author: Teens should read graphic novels not just 'worthy' novels<div style="background-color: white; color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“(this conference) is all about repositioning reading for teens. Books should also be celebrated for their enormous entertainment value – they don’t need to be worthy.” </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.48em;">(</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.719999313354492px;">children’s laureate Malorie Blackman</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.719999313354492px;"> )</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.48em;"> added she would advocated “anything” that encouraged young people to read, including graphic novels, or film and TV adaptations. (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10964533/Teenagers-should-read-graphic-novels-not-just-worthy-novels.html">Source</a>)</span></div>
Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-21135322260492939482014-07-01T15:18:00.004-04:002014-07-01T15:18:42.174-04:00Deconstructing A News Magazine Cover (Visual Literacy)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;">Check out </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/06/06/can-jeb-bush-win-game-thrones-252617.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff69dd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" target="_blank">this recent cover</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;"> from Newsweek Magazine. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;">Having students identify the people portrayed, their clothes, and even the symbols might be productive.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;">Whether you're a fan of HBO's series "Game of Thrones" or not, this might be good for student analysis, deconstruction and discussion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;">Here is </span><a href="http://www.frankwbaker.com/deconstructing_news_magazine_cover" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff69dd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" target="_blank">a simple handout</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;"> I developed with questions you might consider using with students.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3365013263426629415.post-20236886281414444362014-06-29T21:50:00.004-04:002014-06-29T21:50:35.371-04:00Close Reading & What It Means for Media Literacy<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;">Close reading isn’t just for printed texts anymore. To help students meet Common Core standards related to close observation and effective questioning, media literacy consultant Frank Baker, </span><a href="http://www.middleweb.com/15929/close-reading-and-media-literacy/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px; position: static !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">writing on Middleweb.com,</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.01819610595703px;"> suggests ways to engage them with a range of visual content.</span>Frank Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594574951296948392noreply@blogger.com0