Mary Ellen Churchill
Media Arts Lab
Balboa High School
San Francisco, CA

email:

mchurch@muse.sfusd.k12.ca.us

Click here for a few words from Peter Jennings on "media deconstruction":

The information below contains links to websites with information about various forms of media and about the topic of media literacy. The second page contains links for teachers, some with course outlines and lesson plans. All the links are in the color blue.

" Media Literacy"....

What is it?

The ability to question, analyze, interpret and evaluate the messages of the Mass Media.

click here to find out more:

media literacy

media literacy on-line

image by Amy Guip, from Newsweek, June 15,1998

What are the Media we interact with everyday ??

Newspapers
CD's
Television
Photography
S.F.Snapshots
Magazines
Radio
Movies
Videogames
Graffiti
Comic Books
Tapes
Videotapes
Internet
Make a Camera

click on graphic

click here for: live videos of San Francisco
from The City by the Bay Web site

 

How does media

"construct reality"?

  •  in fragments
  • out of context
  • censored
  • bombards with images
  • media monopolies

http://censored.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/menu.html

Click here for information on important stories that have been excluded from the mainstream media.

Learn how the media constructs a distorted reality by deleting information,& making facts unavailable.

Click here to see cool sites:

*Graphics for your website : http://www.mediabuilder.com/

New Mexico Media Literacy Project : http://www.nmmlp.org/

Deconstruct "Hackers" the movie : http://www.nmmlp.org/deconstructions/

Kodak's Website: http://www.Kodak.com/

Click here to go to the teachers page!