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Friday February 5th 2010
Create a media response notebook: open text edit, or another way to record your thoughts about media.
Keep a daily journal of the media you respond to. Pairs take turns typing, and send the entry to the other person when done.
Question: What is media literacy? - answer first in your journal BEFORE looking at what the experts have to say:
Respond to media: What is media literacy?

When you are finished your journal, continue working on assignment #1. (if you can)
Assignment #1:
Due date: Monday February 8th 2010
Title: Experiential computing mac style

Macintosh computers have been around for a while, but the current educational climate tends towards the windows based computers. Because of this bias we need to become more familiar with the tools we will be using in this course. When we figure out how to do something on our own, we tend to learn it better. I call this experiential learning - learning through experimentation. Your account on these macs are pretty flexible and can handle just about anything you can throw at it. Ok, here's the bottom line - you need to create the following:

A website with:

more than two pages
a picture of you that has been altered somehow
your name in an interesting font
a picture of you, but altered somehow
countdown to your birthday
map to the school
youtube clip
recording of your own voice - think podcast
a presentation file (think powerpoint, but not) that has:
- more than one slide
- a chart of some kind
- a picture of you
- use a transition
a video of yourself
two headlines and links to newspaper sites
link to an interesting website

You: But mr. Kools, we don't know how to use these programs, or how to use a mac!
Mr. Kools: look more closely at the flowchart..... then.. visit this website: http://www.apple.com/mac/ and look for the tutorials section
OR
search what your looking for on Google

Good luck!