Friday, 5 October 2012

CREATE YOUR BLOG


  1. Create your own blog using Blogger
  2. Add the class blog and your group's blogs to it
  3. Add the gadget 'search engine'
  4. First post: your poster MY MEDIA made using Comic Life. Explain how you made it.
  5. Second post: your film opening 'CHERIE': MAKING A FILM OPENING .Explain how you made it. Refer to seeing Delicatessen (Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1991)
  6. Create your own Twitter account and 'follow' my suggested links. 
  7. Tweet using Twitter ( on a media related topic only, e.g. Skyfall's premiere, your views on the last film that you have seen, the iPhone 5, music/bands/gigs, new technology, TV programmes.....)
  8. Third post: a screen shot of your first 5 Twitter posts.
  9. Add Twitter gadget to your blog.
FOLLOW ON TWITTER
First, we learn why the journalist Alan Rusbridger values Twitter in The Guardian newspaper here.

TWITTER

You are setting up a Twitter page and you will continue to use it this year. What for?
  • To communicate instantly and effectively with the rest of your group and your class. You will share your thinking as well as attach information / hyperlinks / pictures that relate to your work.
  • To receive new information quickly. It's an amazing human search engine that harnesses the crowd. You'll follow all sorts of movers and shakers. use the hashtag to follow specific threads.
  • To start a conversation with strangers as well as friends. Fresh ideas when you're thinking about something.
  • To create a community of people interested in what you are interested in: invite responses; follow up ideas.
  • To learn from some great minds and experienced teachers in various Media fields. If something interests them, it may well be of interest to us. 'Follow' wisely.
  • To invite feedback for your evaluation question. You may get a completely fresh, honest opinion. That's worth having. Potentially, you have access to millions of people.
PREP Create your Twitter account.
'Follow' institutions and individuals who will widen your understanding of media issues.
 
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