Thursday, December 10, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Brainstorming My Media Literacy Autobiography
Growing up with parents that weren’t “tech savvy” always
made for an interesting time when they just bought new cell phones or a desktop
for the family. I am the youngest in my family and I am always the one that my
parents and sister go to for technology advice. I am the type of person that
would try different things and click different buttons to see what would
happen. Now I look for YouTube videos when I am stumped on technology things.
I am just like my mother when it comes to reading books,
magazines, etc. I love getting wrapped up in a good novel and escaping the real
world for a little bit. Learning how to navigate through the Internet and
finding what is and isn’t reliable was something that I have taught myself.
When I was in high school I finally started learning more about reliable
sources and finding educational websites that could help with research.
Looking back now I used the Internet for entertainment
purposes rather than for educational purposes. I don’t remember having to write
a paper or researching a topic until later on in high school. I had AOL and the
instant messenger that it had. Going through high school I had a MySpace
account until I graduated then I moved up to the Facebook world. Changing your
profile picture, adding music to your page, or showing everyone what your
favorite movies are is something that I like about social media.
As an educator, I feel like it is my job and responsibility
to incorporate different aspects of the media into my teaching. I want to
utilize all of the media that we have available to us and share it with my students.
Being a librarian, I can help my students become media literate before they get
out of high school. There are so many things that I can do with teaching media
literacy. I feel that this is one of the best jobs where I can utilize
everything from print and online materials to show students what they need to
know before they go off to college and into the real world. This course has
given me so many sources that I could use in my library and with my students. I
want students to not only know how to evaluate media sources that they see but
also to show the world who they really are. The media is a great outlet for
expressing yourself and this class has shown me that.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
My Digital Story
I made a few changes to my Digital Story. First I changed the beginning to show the title with an image that is faded in the background. I wanted the text to show up more than the picture. I changed one of my slides around to be at the end rather than the beginning so that us winning the title was not given away just yet. I paraphrased some slides that Dr. Lindstrom helped me with. I also added music throughout the movie to give it a little beat. Recording my voice with the story was fun and it motivated me to talk with an upbeat personality.
My digital story is about my cheerleading squad winning
regionals for the first time in school history. My digital story includes
personal images and music from The Script.
In this digital story I talk about how hard it is to practice and
prepare for regionals and that cheerleading is a difficult sport. I show the
excitement of winning a competition and claiming your plaque.
I think that my digital story creates an alternative to a
stereotype typically portrayed in mainstream media. Everyone thinks that
cheerleading is not a sport and that girls just stand around all day being
prissy. Cheerleading is a sport and it is very dangerous as well. Flyers have
to trust their bases to catch them when they are in the air. We don’t wear pads
or helmets to protect us when we are flipping and stunting. I have fell on my
head a few times from being dropped by a base and it is not fun. I hope that
this video enlightens people on how hard cheerleading really is and that it
takes hard work and dedication to become great.
Digital storytelling can help individuals develop critical
media literacy because you have to interpret what the creator is saying and
what they want you to take out of it. You have to be able to interpret the
images and take away a meaning for them. By creating our digital stories we were able
to use a movie making software, that we may or may not have been familiar with
before then. Once we created our stories
we had to provide our fellow classmates with feedback. By commenting on our
fellow classmates stories we were able to look at their story and identify the
purpose, dramatic question, the economy, the emotion, etc.. All of these things
that we did with this activity helped us develop critical media literacy. We
are able to look for different things when viewing the story and take out
different points as well.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Everyone Around You Has A Story the World Needs to Hear TED Talk
Write a 100 word reaction to the video.
Dave Isay ‘s video was very inspiring. I think that his idea
of having people share their life experiences is a great idea. We need to share
our stories, because I think that by sharing we can find others that are
experiencing the same things. StoryCorps travels all around the world and listens
to thousands of stories that allow people to share who they are and where they
are from. People are able to know that they do exist and they are being heard. “Every
single life matters equally and infinitely” is what Dave ended with and I
completely agree.
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