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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online

For Students K - 1st
Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Students will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for a...
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Digital Media Licensing Association (Dmla): Copyright Basics: Power Point

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PowerPoint presentation could be used for professional development sessions, for reference, or even with students if one hides a few of the slides less relevant to student work. It covers the basics concept of fair use of print,...
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Dr. Alice Christie's Digital Media Resources for Teachers

For Students 6th - 8th
Using Apple iMovie in the classroom is explored in this site. There are plenty of student examples as well as directions, tips and tricks to help make iMovie projects educational and visually successful. Several good links available for...
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life Lesson

For Students 7th - 9th
In this activity, learners learn about ways to manage their privacy and reputation online by exploring their digital presence and to make good choices about sharing other people's content online. Students explore how they are portrayed...
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American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association: Social Media's Growing Impact on Our Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
Media psychology researchers are beginning to tease apart the ways in which time spent on social media is, and is not, impacting our day-to-day lives and our psychological well-being. They are looking at whether time spent on social...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Who's Looking at Your Digital Footprint?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Our digital footprints can have a powerful impact on our future. This can be a scary thought, given that what's in our digital footprint isn't always in our control. Teach students that digital footprints are an opportunity to showcase...
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Media History Digital Library: Non Theatrical Film Collection (1918 1973)

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of original publications that focused on non-theatrical uses of motion pictures, including education, training, advertising, propaganda, and amateur clubs and individuals.
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Media History Digital Library: Technical Journals Collection (1916 1965)

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of original journals that focus on the technology behind motion pictures, covering cinematography, photography, projection engineering, etc.
Primary
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Media History Digital Library: Hollywood Studio System Collection (1913 1948)

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of original periodicals that focused on the movie industry covering periods from 1905 to the 1960s.
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Media History Digital Library: Global Cinema Collection (1904 1957)

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of original publications from other countries that focus on the film industry.
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Gov Loop: The 7 Barriers to Digital Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource presents 100 different ways to use a digital camera in the classroom.
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Other

Tech in Ctrl: Ethics/copyright: What's Mine Isn't (Necessarily) Yours

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Sharing, reusing, or copying content is so easy that rarely do we pause to think about its original source. This lesson will give students the tools to navigate this often-complicated world of digital media and mass information by...
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Education Development Center

Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This tool kit makes the case that critical and creative use of multimedia authoring tools such as PowerPoint must be taught to students. Lessons, background material, assessment and interactive activities are included.
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Plu: Designing and Delivering Multimedia Presentations: Why Use Visuals?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The advantages to incorporating visuals into a multimedia presentation are explained. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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Brown University

Brown University Library: Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

For Students 9th - 10th
A digital archive of media portraying Giuseppe Garibaldi, a nineteenth-century Italian military and political leader and hero. Collection includes interactive and animated panoramic lecture, newspaper illustrations, and prints from the...
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Other

Childnet International: Digizen: Social Networking Detective

For Students 9th - 10th
This social networking profile has been created to stimulate discussion about safe and potentially unsafe practices and features on social networking sites. Together with the accompanying questions, it has been designed to highlight ways...
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Other

Global Internet Liberty Campaign: Regardless of Frontiers

For Students 9th - 10th
"Protecting the Human Right to Freedom of Expression on the Global Internet" is the resource's topic. Lists the Global Internet Liberty Campaign's principles for promoting human rights and civil liberties. Introduction and overview...
Article
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Early Math Counts: Designing Virtual Lands!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article describes activities to do with young children using apps where they can build structures. It discusses two possible apps to try - Toca Builder and Blokify. Links to videos that tell you more about these apps are included.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Visualizing the World's Twitter Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Good morning, Twitter! Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and from these tweets, we can gather a lot of information about people's lives: where they travel, when they wake up, and their opinions on pretty much everything. Jer Thorp...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Early Math Counts: Creating I Spy Videos

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article describes how young children can create their own I Spy videos using the Draw and Tell app by Duck Duck Moose. It includes a link to a video showing a tour of Walter Wick's studio - he authored the 'I Spy' and 'Can You See...

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