EDUC 540 - Educational Technology: Agenda for June 21

Commercialism and Schools

Channel One was a useful example of how advertising is infiltrating educational institutions. The following list of links contains both official Channel One web sites and two of their leading critics. Take some time and see if anything here changes your stance about Channel One.

• Channel One
• Channel One Teacher
• Primedia - (new name for K-III, the owner of Channel One)
• The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education on Channel One
• Commercial Alert on Channel One

Television Current and Future

• How television is transmitted
  • Unitedstreaming
• How television is stored
  • A Short Course in Digital Video
• How television is made
  • iMovie

If time permits, we'll briefly work with iMovie's editing tutorial.

Break

Continuing iMovie

Assignments due next week

 

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