Wednesday 23 July 2008

The ABC and RollerMache are pleased to present you a free teacher's tool kit!

Are you to teaching media studies or digital storytelling to school age students, now or in the future?

This complete media studies lesson plan can be used by teachers with no experience in media production but can also be used by established instructors to augment existing Media Studies, English, Art, Multimedia or related courses. You can download the whole toolkit here:

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Rollermache Teacher Toolkit (PDF)

Whats in in the Toolkit?

Produced by staff from ABC TV Multiplatform in collaboration with Media Studies teachers, the downloadable classes cover all stages of media production and with a focus on animation. Providing overviews on key subject areas, instructions on making your own media, detailed class activities and links to related sites and media, this total lesson plan provides all the tools and information required for the conceptual analysis and practical production of media products.

At the end of this class students will have planned made and edited their own animation complete with sound, and will have uploaded it to the RollerMache gallery where they can send it to friends and family to see and rate. Students will also learn to:

  • Investigate the nature of storytelling and the reasons for its popularity
  • Consider the individual production of a media product from pre production through to distribution
  • Learn to critically analyse films and other media
  • Investigate and analyse their own and others' experiences of media
  • Learn to conceptualise, visualize and express their own ideas and gain self-confidence and communication skills through that expression
  • Become familiar and practiced with the principles of film production including idea development, animation production, editing and sound
  • Become familiar and practiced with the principles of self produced web content and conscious of identity and privacy concerns
  • Produce their own short animation for web distribution

You can download the tool kit in four separate heading areas

Friday 18 July 2008

Media Heroes Trading Cards


Reclaim the Media honors a small handful of media heroes who have inspired thousands of people to become more thoughtful media consumers and media makers. Media heroes are everywhere: journalists, activists, media innovators and educators making sure that we all have access to media that supports democratic values of justice, community and respect. Some media heroes are solitary voices keeping a candle of truth burning through a period of darkness. Others are organizers working to expand the range of people who can wield the power of publishing and broadcasting. or reveal hidden aspects of the media that is all around us.

http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/mediaheroes