Compilation of Teacher Evaluations from the Monday October 29, 2007

Media Literacy Workshop for Horry County ELA Educators

1. What did you like about today’s workshop?

 

Responses:
1. lots of resources and relevant activities to use in the classroom

2. Activities, casual tone/humor, variety, relevant material/slides/handouts
3. the infinite resources that I learned about and now have available for me to utilize
4. hands on activities and examples of videos students have done
5. clear strategy for teaching media literacy
6. I got a lot of new ideas
7. websites; visuals you shared
8. all the sources and new ideas for much more interesting ways to use media in the classroom. The day went so quickly and was so productive
9. very nice pace! Wide variety of critical thinking ideas
10. media info and instructional strategies
11.strategies provided that can actually be utilized in the classroom
12. a more updated and relevant way to present propaganda techniques
13. Mr. Baker seems to understand very well what would appeal to young people
14. all of the different types of media and how they could be utilized in the classroom
15. hands on activities, storyboard, be the producer by looking through the newspaper, take apart ads in magazines
16.Getting my students to analyze the media, looking at propaganda techniques in ads, the language of film, writing scripts
17. Everything, especially the use of newspapers because I can easily and quickly adapt this to my situation
18. modeled useful activities- very conscious of teachers’ needs
19. variety of materials, activities
20. everything, nice interactive lessons
21. I gained so much information I can use in my classroom
22. the analysis of the advertisements and the recreation of them was a unique activity
23. activities were great and useful
24. activities were fun and relevant to our standards
25, very relevant and important
26. all activities are relevant and interesting
27. it was very interactive. Audience was encouraged to be active participants rather than passive members of an audience
28. the videos and examples
29. collaboration; not getting bored; videos
30. interesting, kept us involved
31. covered various media sources, hands on, an opportunity to work with other people
32. learning new ways to implement media- I liked the news into activity and using storyboards
33. to find out about different uses of media in the classroom and where to find sources which is the best etc.