The Future of Media

Chelfyn and Helen Baxter from Mohawk Media covered the following topics outlined below. Click on the Window and Drag to view the full Mindmap or view The Future of Media at Mindmeister



The Baxters started their closing keynote with this video of clip Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.




Web 2.0 Tools and Media Resource

Visit the Teach Media NZ Diigo Group for links to the following topics

3d animation audio blogs collaboration colour conference copyright creative commons css design digg draw education graphics income kids labs mapping mindmaps money music nz plan planning podcasting radio report reports rss safe uk video visual you tube

If you would like to share resources with the Teach Media NZ Group then register for Diigo and join the group today. Members can contribute to the associated forum. Other great resources for media educators in New Zealand:

National Association of Media Educators - http://www.name.org.nz/

With useful teaching / media links and resources including Script Magazine which links members of the Association. Script is the main member service of N.A.M.E. and the aim is to provide members with a mixture of news, class room teaching ideas, reviews and material to assist personal development of critical media studies awareness.

Mediascape - http://www.mediascape.ac.nz/

The Guide to Kiwi Media.

TKI Media Studies Community - http://www.tki.org.nz/r/media_studies/

A site for media studies teachers (NCEA levels 2–3) which includes teaching resources and virtual forums for media teachers to connect with each other to discuss developments in the subject and media issues of the day.

Construction of Maori in the media

This workshop given by Jenny Rankine & Dr Raymond Nairn had resources connected with it. if you would like to get hold of the material from this workshop Jenny said in a recent email
"I just wanted you to know that I have put the media studies resources on newspaper constructions of Maori and the Treaty that Ray and I used in our conference workshop up on our webpage.

Our report, a four-page summary and a leaflet relating our findings to media standards of accuracy, balance and fairness were already available. The new resources are –

* Three single A4 PDFs of headlines drawn from our 2004 and 2007 samples which ask –
What words and images come to mind about Maori?
What words and images come to mind about the Treaty and settlements?
Replace the words Maori, tribe or iwi with Pakeha. What effect does that have?

* Four single A4 PDFs of newspaper articles from 2004, three of which were part of case studies in our report, which ask -
What is being said?
Who is speaking?
What text components and associations are used and evoked?
Who is the audience?
What is the effect of saying it this way?"

Beacon Schools Workshops

Did you miss a Beacon Schools workshop? These were the following:

Tom Hunter:Beacon Schools: Level 2: Close Reading Activity in action
Rob Lay:Beacon Schools : Level 2 Radio and Audience: NZ Radio
Milton Henry:Beacon Schools project: Representation
Jane Hall :Up, Up and Away, teaching Junior Media: Beacon Schools practice.
Namaah Hill:Mad about Mags: level 2 Beacon Schools

Yes they were full of practical ways to teach these usits, in fact they were whole units of work, lesson by lesson. These will be going up on the TKI website. If you go to the intro page, there will soon be a link for you to go to the actual material. if you have already got the material, please use and give feedback through the TKI website on how this went.

Setting up a radio station : Dave Warring

Great advice from Dave Warring about setting up radio in schools, based on his experiences over many years in Christchurch schools, at Linwood High and Cathedral College. It is a great low cost alternative for production and one that can really involve students in an industry style production experience. Go to his powerpoint to get the details from his workshop.

Junior Media: How to do it: Panel Discussion

For all you teachers who want to teach media in the junior school, go to the notes and have a look at the advice and ideas that this panel gave. Also ideas from Deb Thompson on how to link it all into the key competencies!!!

Paula Allen: How to get Your students work seen on TV

Paula presented a detailed workshop on how to get your students work on TV. She called on her own experiences with students at Hillcrest High and at Summer School at Waikato University. She has been running a pilot with Big TV (Waikato University Screen and Media,Wintec and the high school students called "Warped". It is to pilot on Alt TV and looks at local artists, critics and filmmakers. Paula is also involved with the Cut film competition for high school students, run by Wintec. She had lots of ideas for improving the technical quality of videos. This included some good sites for copyright free music,
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www.soundrangers.com
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www.bitshiftaudio.com/products/bbb/free_bee.html
www.looperman.com
www.breakbeatsonly.com/preview1.htm
www.samplearena.com/download.htm

Help with making Videos
Find the book:‘Producing Videos: A Complete Guide’ by Martha Mollison
www.usergroups.net/shareware/
www.platinumloops.com/free_loops.html
www.samplearena.com/download.htm

Free downloadeable SFX and Music
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For more details of her workshop look at this file

Richard Bell: “We’d Really Rather You Didn’ts” Ideas for Scriptwriting

The session by Richard Bell from the New Zealand Broadcasting School was very popular and for good reason!! He was a hit!!! His ideas gave us some great ideas on how to approach the most dificult and critical part of video creation....the script.
Refer to the notes from this workshop to give you inspiration.

Andrew Burn: Keynote The Challenge of New Media

Andrew Burn's presentation took us back to 2 years ago when we were addressed in Wellington by James Durran, as he had worked with James, and has recently written a book with him Media Literacy in Schools (You can see info here). His talk began with reference to old and new media divides and TV in the internet age...I like the term "glocalisation" that refered to thinking globally acting locally eg migrant children co-opting a global music genre.

He also talked about the 3c's model -Cultural, Critical and Creative with reference to Digital Games. (refer to added notes from the lecture)It was interesting to see the research he has been doing with James on Games and gaming culture. Have a peek at Parkside Community College where they specialize in Media studies.
Some points/ideas that I came away with were

• The ideas in old and new media are not that different
• Digital media is NOT ICT
• There are more people on computers than game consols
• Are the digital geeks leading the way for the rest of us?
  

• We need to be rethinking the authority of the teacher - are we cultural practitioner, researcher, creator, taster, theorist…???
• What is the role of gaming in our subject? In other areas?
  

Media Studies 1.0 vs 2.0

Geoff Lealand gave a brief introduction to the notions of Media Studies 1.0 v 2.0. He discussed the situation in Scotland, England and the USA. He then covered the main elements of the discussion/clash/arguments about Media Studies 1.0 vs 2, which you can see on the accompanying powerpoint. We need to consider the debate and examine what it means for us, old media or new media? Or somewhere inbetween??
Or is this just a capture of our subject by the new technology?

Good point to remeber: From Peter Bazalgette "teenagers are media literate but they are not media wise"
go here to find notes from this.

The BSA and its changing sphere of influence

Dominic Sheehan, the new CEO of the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) spoke about the challenges facing regulators as new media dramatically changes the media-scape with online and mobile media. He spoke about the contextual basis of broadcast media, from free-to-air, to pay-TV, to online media.

Current regulation will need to change, which the government is addressing in a new paper available soon, about how new media can be regulated, who wants it, how would it be set up and who would police it?

The BSA also currently have a tremendous resources for teachers and students on their website: http://www.bsa.govt.nz
Hit this link:
BSA website

Russell Brown. Live from the Blogosphere

Russell spoke about the growing trend in the media industry, especially with news-media, to consider blogging seriously as a new channel. Fresh of his success at the Qantas Media Awards taking the first-ever blog prize, he spoke about how no one in the iindustry can predict the future as flexibility is becoming the key for survival.

The four biggest challenges he felt were:
- who controls the network?
- who pays for all of this?
- whose truth?
- what's the end?

He was a brilliant speaker when considering the wider implications and bigger picture stuff of scholarship and for more on his blog and work, try his website:


www.publicaddress.net

Russell spoke in detail about Dr Chrichton Limbert from the BBC and the challenges that the Beeb is facing with the rise of citizen journalism, along with the multiple formats and delivary systems available.
Try this Listener article for further details.

Russell stressed the notion of veractiy, truth and accuracy as being mainstays we need to impart in all of our courses to students.

Look! New! Student movie competiton

A call for all young New Zealanders to showcase their talent and help the planet.

A sustainability film challenge – THE OUTLOOK FOR SOMEDAY – launches today for New Zealanders up to 20 years of age.

The project involves both TVNZ and Māori Television and is a partnership between Connected Media, The Enviroschools Foundation and the Global Education Centre.
go to their website for further information:

THE OUTLOOK FOR SOMEDAY

How can you download onto a Mac with a DVD camera

Download the programme Handbrake by hitting this LINK
Download off the camera through the usb link, can download as an MP4 which you can use in iMovie.

Hint from the Sony man, Tim Barlow, from Sony Auckland:
"Rather than using a blue screen with a digital camera, use a green screen, projected onto a screen behind them."

Podcasting

From the workshop on podcasting: Go to this site for a way of uploading the podcasts you create, so you can then use this as a link for other people to download your podcast.
www.podomatic.com

Close Reading @ Level 2

As part of the hard work put into Year One of Beacon Schools, unpacking Close Reading activity in an alternative manner to what has been carried out earlier, Tom Hunter presented on assessment through seminar.

Given the hands-on nature of the media and technology today, students oftn thrive once they have the chance to 'own' the media they are using. In creating a seminar or powerpoint allows the students a far greater range to critically evaluate the media texts that they are studying. This removes the focus from student's written ability and more towards accuracy of analysis.

Blogging towards Scholarship

With the foresight that our students today are incredibly internet savvy and vocal, Toni presented an excellent and informative workshop about using blogs to help students focus, discuss and expand their ideas and conversations about scholarship related issues.

Blogs are becoming commonplace on the internet and having students unpack and dissect the multitude of ideas, understanding and experience through this very collaborative medium is increasingly becoming invaluable in preparing them for scholarship.

www.tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/

Digital Journalism with Nigel Evans

Remembering that print is an integral part of the Media, Nigel presented a fascinating workshop on bringing a new, digital look to print journalism in Media Studies. This preempts the Beacon Schools Pathway to Print document soon to available in the Media Studies kite.

Using Hurricane Katrina as an evocative case-study of the power of print on the web, Nigel elaborated on fresh perspectives of journalism for the digital era.

Useful links were:

www.nytimes.com
www.nola.com/katrina/
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/

An audience with Andrew Shaw

Well-connected television legend, Andrew Shaw, spoke about the huge trend of new media and web-based tools allowing for students to be creators and media producers outside of the classroom.

He used a British Channel 4 comedian skit that exposed the truth about pitching new shows to TV networks.

A little help for 2.1 Audience

“Who Let the Blogs Out? “ Conference for Media Studies Teachers 2007

Welcome to all of you from the organising committee in Auckland. The title of the conference is supposed to pose a question and give you a challenge.

We wanted this conference to not only celebrate the familiar forms of the media but also make us consider and experience other, newer forms of the media. The challenge is to use these forms ourselves, to use them in our teaching and as part of what we teach about.

The question in the conference title asks us to consider the wider implications of these forms, who owns them, uses them and what this means for our students, teaching and society in general. The notions we have had of how media is constructed, who owns it, who can access it and what it can be used for are all challenged by these new forms of media use. They are also having a profound impact on the more traditional media forms of newspapers, magazines, television and film.

This site will give you some links and places to go that can provide you with ideas, information and new ways of teaching. It also gives you a way to create your own online learning directories and spaces for you and your students.

Committeee: Josephine Maplesden, Geoff Lealand, Sarah Fernside, Milton Henry, Sandra Chesterman, Deb Thompson. Thanks to Ian Thomas and Shannon Nelson for tech support.