Module 1 / Goals and Curriculum Frameworks for Media Literacy Instruction

• Integrating Media Literacy

Module 2 / Uses of New Media in Media Education

• Blogging

• Video Games as Metaphor for Learning and Curriculum Design

• Hypermedia Authoring in Response to Literature and Life

• Call of the Wild Webquest

• Harlem Renaissance Webquest

• Autobiographical Poetry Webquest

• Creating My Own Webquest: Teach the Teacher

• Rita’s Webquest: Finding Answers to Life’s Longings

• Web Design Basics: Tools, Tips, and Tricks

Module 3 / Film Techniques

• How to Read Film

• Reality Viewing and Writing

Module 5 / Studying Media Representations

• The Disneyfication of Folklore

• Latinos in the U.S. Media

• Ideas on Teaching a Frame of Reference

• Movies with Characters with Disabilities

• Fairy Tales

• If Barbie were a reindeer: How gender representations in Rudolph exemplify the need for teaching media literacy

• Images of Africa in the Western Media

• Critical Multicultural Education and the Media

• Teaching Middle School Students about Media Representations [ Smoke Signals ]

• An Integrated Unit of Chinese-American Literature and Media

Module 6 / Studying Advertising

• Ads: Reading and Writing Them

• Advertising, consumerism, and the adolescent market

• Would you buy the story?

• Feed and Teenage Consumerism

• Narcissisms and Echoes: Using Myth in Advertising

Module 7 / Film/Television Genres

• Billy Wilder’s Film Noir

• Teaching Dead Poets Society

• On Writing Movie Reviews

• Teaching the Science Fiction Film Bladerunner

• Technology and You: Science Fiction and the Culmination of Technology

Module 8 / Media Ethnography

• Children’s TV: Watching Kids Watching TV

Module 9 / Popular Music and Radio

• Music and Controversy: The Cycle Continues

• The Music of Protest

• Poetry [ and song ]

Module 10 / Studying the News

• A bright idea: Bring biases out of the dark

• A Broadcast Journalism Unit

• First Amendment and Freedom of the Press

• Media Analysis and Technique: “And That’s the News”

• Newspaper Literacy Unit

• Yellow Journalism in the 21st Century?

Module 11 / Documentary

• Video Curriculum: Documentary Production and Analysis

Module 12 / Integrating Film into the Curriculum

• Film analysis using formalist lens

• Bridging Backwards: Linking Film Genre to Fiction

• The Holocaust: A unit study through literature, testimony, and film

• Film Music

• Literary Film Adaptations: Chaucer Extravaganza

• Re-Evaluating Fidelity: Film Adaptation in the Language Arts Classroom

• A Multi-Media Approach to Teaching The Grapes of Wrath

• Using Internet Resources to Understand Race and Class in The Well

• Memoir: “You Can’t Keep Them Down”

• A Separate Peace & Film

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