Media Literacy
Erica Morrill
e.morrill@tvdsb.on.ca
Thames Valley District School Board
Sites for Lesson Plans
Media Awareness Network
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
Action4media
http://action4mediaeducation.org/article-rj001.html
Emints Media Techniques in Advertising
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001858.shtml
Advertising in the Media Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/media_advert.html
Advertising across the Centuries- American
http://www.americanmemory.org/TR_Print_Advertising/
Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/
Ed Select Media Literacy Resources
http://edselect.com/media.htm
Learn NC
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4178
Media Literacy Clearing House
http://www.frankwbaker.com/advertising2.htm
Guide to Effective Instruction Media Literacy
http://www.medialiteracy.ca/welcome/Ideas/Entries/2008/5/14_Media_Lit._Document_from_the__Min
istry_of_Ed._.html
Incorporating Media Into the Curriculum
http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/schools/recit/ml/mllinks.htm
Media Literacy.Com
http://www1.medialiteracy.com/home.jsp
Center for Excellence in Media Literacy
http://depts.washington.edu/nwmedia/view.cgi?section=kitsap&page=links
Curricular Resources in Media Literacy
http://www.cln.org/subjects/media_cur.html
Teaching with Documents
http://www.edteck.com/dbq/index.htm
Ad Detective
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=EM645&page=teacher
Food Print Ads
http://www.frankwbaker.com/foodprintads.htm
Evaluating Bias in Advertising
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/evalbiast.shtml
Evaluating Websites
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/lmevalwebsites.html
National Association for Media Literacy in Education
http://www.namle.net/lesson-plans
Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/media-ads.html
Technology Lessons
Nortel Learn It
http://www.nortellearnit.org/resources/Web_Sites/
Adobe Digital Collections Teacher Resources
http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/
Creating a Video Storyboard
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ricky/etec/storyboarding.html
Storyboards
http://www.sotherden.com/video101/storyboard.htm
Producing Commercials for Videotaping
http://www.teachnet.org/teachnetnyc/nacionales/commercials.htm
Sites with Templates
Video Storyboard Template
http://www.pbs.org/elections/kids/docs/storyboard.pdf
Simple Storyboard
http://www.cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/MENTZER/webquest/storyboard.htm
Detailed Storyboard Template
http://schools.shorelineschools.org/home_education/Forms/Video%20Storyboard.pd
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Worksheets for Media
Analyzing Documents
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
Media Deconstruction Worksheet
http://www.medialiteracy.net/pdfs/deconstruction_worksheet.pdf
Commercial Worksheet
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/tela/MediaLiteracyWorksheet1
Examples of Media
PSA’s
Ad Council Gallery PSA’s
http://www.adcouncil.org/gallery.html
PSA Research Center
http://www.psaresearch.com/
Smoking PSA’s
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/video/index.html
Creating a PSA
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/20351/lesson5.html
PSA Lesson
http://www.jnhstech.net/psa/tcea/samples.html
Commercials
Buy Me That
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hdm69hpO-E
Advertisement Ave
http://www.advertisementave.com/
Ad Access
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/
Print Ads
Themes for Coca Cola Ads
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colatime1.html
Truth In Advertising-Old Ads 1940’s
http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/1940s.html
Media Resources for Students
Newspaper, Posters, Comics
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/elci/index.html?launch=true
Read Write Think Student Resources Online
-templates for newspapers, DVD covers etc.
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Kids Video Production
http://kidsvid.altec.org/index.html
Don’t Buy It
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/