Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities

 Chapter 9: Studying the News

[9.1] Studying the News and Documentaries

[9.2] Newspaper or Print News

[9.2a] Teaching Analysis of the News

[9.2b] Analysis of Newspaper Sections and Functions

[9.2c] Differences in Types and Uses of News

[9.2d] On-line News

[9.2e] Student Units on Analyzing the News

[9.2f] Blogs

[9.2g] Political Uses of Blogs

[9.2h] Editorial Perspectives

[9.2i] Newspaper Ownership

[9.2j] News Bias

[9.2k] Different aspects of news bias

[9.2l] Studying and Producing Classroom / School Newspapers

[9.3] Television and Radio News

[9.3a] Characteristics of Television News

[9.3b] Selecting News Stories

[9.3c] Accuracy / Completeness of News Coverage

[9.3d] Television News Development

[9.3e] On-line Television News

[9.3f] Sports Coverage

[9.3g] Coverage of Political Issues and Campaigns

[9.3h] Creating television news broadcasts and podcasts

[9.3i] Documentaries

[9.4] Teaching Activities

[9.5] References

Powerpoints

Chapter 9

[9.3h] Creating a News Broadcast

[9.3h.1] In the Thinking Visually site, Mark Harmon includes specific strategies for analyzing the use of photo composition, motion, sound, lighting, and transitions in television news broadcasts.

[9.3h.1a] Santa Cruz High School: Student Curriculum in Photography

[9.3h.1b] Poynter Online PhotoJournalism Resources

[9.3h.2] Video Production of a Newscast [ Media Awareness Network lesson / grades 6-9 ]

[9.3h.2a] MIT course: Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still Images of A World In Motion

[9.3h.3] Nothing but the News: Exploring and Creating “Important” News Stories [ The New York Times Daily Lesson ]

[9.3h.4] My Newcast [ game on creating a TV news broadcast ]

Webquests: Creating a News Broadcast

[9.3h.5] Who Started the Fire? :A WebQuest for 11th Grade American
[9.3h.6] News Program :A WebQuest for Middle School Language Arts
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[9.3h.8] Unit: Which Clip Should We Use? [ developing a TV news broadcast ]

[9.3h.9] Television News [ Media Awareness Network lesson / grades 7-10 ]

[9.3h.10] Producing a Daily News Broadcast: A Cross-Curricular Activity

[9.3h.11] XM Satellite Radio

[9.3h.12] Sirius SatelliteTM Radio

[9.3h.13] iTunes: Podcasts

[9.3h.13a] American Public Media: Podcasts

[9.3h.14] NPR: News/Opinion Podcasts

[9.3h.15] BBC Radio Podcasts

[9.3h.16] ABC News: Podcasts

[9.3h.17] CBS News: Podcasts

[9.3h.18] Podcast Bunker: directory

[9.3h.19] Podcast Alley: directory

[9.3h.20] Podcast Central: directory

[9.3h.21] IPodder: news directory

[9.3h.22] Podcast: news directory

[9.3h.23] PodcastingNews

[9.3h.24] Digital Podcast News

[9.3h.25] News@Cisco Podcasts

[9.3h.26] Podfeeder: News Podcasts

[9.3h.27] iPodderX: Podcast news feeds

[9.3h.28] Youth Radio: Web Radio

[9.3h.28a] Youth Radio: Fourth R: ways of adding radio production to the curriculum

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[9.3h.30] Apple’s GarageBandTM

[9.3h.31] podcast411.com

[9.3h.32] FeedBurner.com

[9.3h.33] ipodder.org.

[9.3h.34] http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=901

[9.3h.35]  Radio-Television News Directors Foundation: High School Journalism Project

[9.3h.36] Radio-Television News Directors Foundation: Free curriculum materials: Broadcast in a Box

[9.3h.36] Resources from the National Scholastic Press Association and Associated Collegiate Press: Student Media Sourcebook

[9.3h.37] American Radio Works: radio documentaries

[9.3h.37] Larry Larsen, Poynter Institute, using Flash in producing online news stories

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Communication Department, Allen High School, Dallas, Texas KGLE 3 Teen News/AHS Channel 3

Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Flossmoor, Illinois: WHFH

Hillcrest High School, Springfield, Missouri: HTV Magazine.com: monthly TV magazine

For further reading:

Attkisson, S., & Vaughan, D. R. (2003). Writing right for broadcast and Internet news. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Tuggle, C.A., Carr, F., & Huffman, S. (2001). Broadcast news handbook: Writing, Reporting, and Producing in a Converging Media World. Boston: McGraw Hill.

 

 


 


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