Friday, November 27, 2009

Comic Life - Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Hardcopy is inside file folder. Unable to post to this blog. Not sure what I was doing wrong ...

Reflection Journal - Creating a Blog


Annotated Paragraph - David Booth, In Graphic Detail

Buckingham, Chapter 1, Why Teach The Media (Literature Review)


Analysis of Website - GraphicNovelReporter.com


Annotated Paragraph - Crusade for copy-right free literacy


Reflection Journal - Creating Comic Strips


Reflection Journal - Reading The Street (Mall Crawl)


Deconstruction of a Media Text (Bandit Wine)




Offical Trailer for Disney's First Black Princess



Princess Tiana - Disney's First Black Princess

Malls R US - Doc Zone | CBC-TV

Malls R US - Doc Zone | CBC-TV

Some of the world's most renowned contemporary retail architects and developers explain how malls are the medium through which the 21st century will rebirth decaying cities, inspire monument building, unite mankind, and even help the planet grow green. We'll see Mother Earth - pushed over to make way for the mall - reconfigured in air-conditioned splendor, through babbling fountains, evergreen trees, and glass ceilings. Religious, environmental and labour critics gaze past security cameras onto the shrinking public space, to ask whether community can ever be born out of food courts and superstores.
Thursday February 25, 2010 at 9 pm on CBC TV, Friday February 26, 2010 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network

Sydney Flash Mob 2008



What defines public space?

Guerilla Girls



A great video to use as an intro to Guerilla Girls.

Adbusters - Buy Nothing Day



The consequences of over-consumption. Every purchase you make has an impact on the planet. Check out Kalle Lasn.

The Eight Key Concepts


Thursday, November 26, 2009

Nurturing Human Creativity Within Education



The case for nurturing human creativity within education.

House Hippo for Deep Listening / Viewing



Deep Listening / Viewing
Deep Listening/Deep Viewing is an approach that can be used to reread/reexamine a multimedia text to uncover its deeper meaning. It involves extended, focussed listening and viewing, and in some cases, traditional reading. It helps the reader to manage the information in an audio/visual text by breaking it down into smaller bits, which is a highly effective comprehension strategy. (From Media, Part 1, Course Outline, p. 36)