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Question: What kind of people drink milk?

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On any given day, we might

see an ad, watch television, check facebook, text a friend, overhear a conversation, make a phone call, eat dinner with our family, or read a magazine.  

When, during that day, it comes time to make a decision, we make the best one we can, using the information from these sources, from our family, from our friends, or from the news.

What we need to be aware of is this; 

Our decisions are based on what we know to be true, but also on what we assume to be true.

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We find many of these facts (and also the information we assume to be facts) in the media.....

'Media' gives us information on which we base our decisions and actions.


Our actions, coupled with everyone else's, give shape to our community, culture, and society. Thus, in order to understand how the world works, we must first understand the media that drives it.


Students studying media will develop a critical, informed understanding of how and why individuals and organizations construct media messages and how those messages are interpreted by the audience.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/blog/index.cfm?commentID=166

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Course Description (What the Ministry says..)

This course emphasizes knowledge and skills that enable students to understand media communication in the twenty-first century and to use media effectively and responsibly. Through analysing the forms and messages of a variety of media works and audience responses to them, and through creating their own media works, students develop critical thinking skills, aesthetic and ethical judgment, and skills in viewing, representing, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

To that end, this is a typical assignment structure I would use in this course. Will I use this exact one this time? Probably. Will there be changes? Probably. 

Probable Assignment Structure

    * Newspapers – quiz, 2 summatives

    * Tabloids – 1 summative

    * Comic Books – 1 summative

    * Advertising – quiz, 2 summatives

    * Television – quiz, 2 summatives

    * Music – quiz, 1 summative

    * Movies – quiz, 2 summatives

Your mark will be made like this:

    * 10 summatives will be 70% of your total mark (no matter how many I assign) - so, you could be assigned 15 projects, and you can choose to do ONLY 10 of them at the bare minimum.

    * 10 formatives – these are to be handed in, but they aren’t marked they give me a checklist for your student skills, etc

    * 20% of your total mark will be from the final exam (and quiz marks will be included)

    * 10% for the final assessment on movies

Quizzes and the exam questions are made up by YOU - the students. You are assigned a series of question types (which I will explain), you use your notes to make up questions AND answers, and then I pick from them to make the quiz or exam. This should be good for you.

Do Mr. Alexander & Mr. Lobb give out handouts of their notes? Yes, if you are ill, absent for something serious, if you have a Mr. Wilkie or other guidance or Spec Ed intervention or if you are failing.

Is it good to ask for handout notes because you sat there and talked or slept? No. But you already know that. 

Note Tips:

    * a) take notes

    * b) get a note buddy – you can trust

    * c) form a note group – photocopy from the group – I have done this and it works

Simple Classroom Rules:

   1. Do Not Text, or Use Your Phone - I will take your phone, probably for ever... or longer.

   2. Please pay attention to me. :)

   3. Please don’t use Mean Words to hurt others. .

   7. We will give due dates by the “week of”.

   8. Think of it like a job. Work is necessary to be in on time.

   9. All work can be resubmitted for remarking at any time. Within reason.

 10. Please please don't drink, eat, (or smoke) in this room or in the Mac lab.

 11. Please leave jackets, coats, and backpacks in your lockers.

A bit about me: 

A bit about you:

i) On a piece of lined paper give thoughtful answers, in complete sentences, to the posted questions.

Once you have completed this, ask Mr. Alexander for the use of a computer.

ii) Create a Gmail account. (Google it if you forget how.)

iii) Write your Gmail down, tatoo it on your arm, or just plain 'ol remember it - we will use it for further correspondence.

ii) Take a picture of yourself with the computer, manipulate it however you wish.

iii) Using your new Gmail account, Email your picture to MrAlexanderLovesTimmys@gmail.com.  The subject line should read 'EMS3O Class List'.

Homework:

Email the answers to your questions to MrAlexanderLovesTimmys@gmail.com.