- Create your own blog using Blogger
- Add the class blog and your group's blogs to it
- Add the gadget 'search engine'
- First post: your poster MY MEDIA made using Comic Life. Explain how you made it.
- 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)
- Create your own Twitter account and 'follow' my suggested links.
- 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.....)
- Third post: a screen shot of your first 5 Twitter posts.
- 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?
First, we learn why the journalist Alan Rusbridger values Twitter in The Guardian newspaper here.
- 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.
'Follow' institutions and individuals who will widen your understanding of media issues.
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