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Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
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YouTube Other
Advertising   The Beginnings of Advertising (3:32)

 

Hard Times Hard Sell Be Afraid in the 30s
(3:12)

Soap, Sex & Cigarettes: A Cultural History of Advertising (Intro) (6:09)

Killing Us Softly 3 Advertising's Image of Women (34:00)


Advertising & The End of the World
Hunting For Cool
(Merchants of Cool)(8:23)

Merchants of Cool 
(entire program)

The Persuaders
6 segments
Life Skills 101: Media Wise (15:00) Advertising & the End of the World (5:35)

No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance (3:03)

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession With Thinness (5:10)

The seductive power of television advertising (3:19)

Girls take on advertising
 
Advertising

Analyzing Women in Advertising

Creating An Advertising Campaign
(3:53)


Identities for Sale: the phenomenon of teen branding

Cell Phone_spot (:45)

Teaching Media: Analysing an Advert (UK) (13:56)

Super Bowl Ads


Various
Alcohol     Deadly Persuasion:
The Advertising of
Alcohol & Tobacco


Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol
  Ad-Libbing It (22:03) Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco

Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol
 
Big Media OutFOXed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (1:55)

Jeff Chester on big media conglomerates
 

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power
Moyers on America
"The Net at Risk" (3:28)
 
Big Media Hall of Shame (4:50)

Media in the 21st Century (4:59)

The Corporation selected clips

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (5:27)

Big Media - Shine A Light (1:08)

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power (5:45)

 
The Power of the Media (Part 1)

Media Manipulation: New Game for Big Business

Critical Focus: How Media Ownership Affects Content
Body Image     Slim Hopes:
Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness


Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (7:02)

What A Girl Wants
 
 
Body Image: Prescribing Beauty                               
 
Get Real (10:00)

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession With Thinness
Body Image for Boys

Body Image- The Quest for Perfection
 
Career
Education
        Careers for the 21st Century: Media and the Arts Occupations

Carreras para el siglo 21: Ocupaciones en arte y medios de comunicación

Assignment Discovery: Episode 165: Careers in Television

Discovering Art:
Careers In Film
  More Than A Job--Broadcast Journalism
(9:40)

Film, TV, and Media Today
Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Commerialism     Captive Audience     Naomi Klein - No Logo (1of4) (10:08)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (4:36)

The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (3:28)
Why We Buy What We Buy
Documentary             Know TV
Film/Movie Making         LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!

Moviemaking and Integrating Curriculum (08:08)

Discovering the Arts: Careers in Film
Making Grimm Movies: (various clips)

FLIGHT: Anatomy of a Shot (1:31)

Discovering the Short Part I

Reading Film: The Story of Movies (5:00)

American Cinema:
Film Language


Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy

Film Industry

The Vocabulary of Film and TV

Music for Movies (3:20)

Gender Issues           Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete (4:45)

What a Girl Wants (5:51)

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (6:16)


Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & TV (6:48)

Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering (4:54)


 
Packaging Girlhood with Sharon Lamb Ed.D

Critical Focus: Gender and Sexuality in the Media
Health         Skills for Healthy Living: Analyzing Media Influences (27:35)    
Information
Literacy
  DISCOVER Information Literacy (8:03)         Information Literacy: The Perils of Online Research (2:17)
Journalism/
News
      News War
(4 programs)

Local News
  Ted Koppel on the Information Overload
(3:44)


The World of TV News
(9:59)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (5:32)
Media Moments

Dan Gillmor on citizen journalism

Media Hype: When News Coverage Goes Too Far

News Writing

Democracy in America
(#10 The Media: Inside Story) 

If You Can't Beat 'Em,
Blog 'em
(2:20)

Feeding the Beast: An Inside Look at the News Media

Hot Off the Press: Inside a Daily Newspaper

TV News: Writing and Editing the Story

Newspaper Industry
Marshall
McLuhan
          Marshall McLuhan on YouTube (2:15)

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan Debating 1968
Marshall
McLuhan

(1:38)

McLuhan's Wake
Media
(general)
            Media Interrupted: The Dissection of Media in American Culture (3:50)
Media Literacy Media. Deconstructed.(:32)
 
      Discovering Language Arts: Viewing 
(K-2; 3-5; 6-8)
Media Literacy: Creating Media

Media Smarts (7:22)

Promoting Health Through Media Education (3:22)

Truth or Consequences:
The Search for
Credibility in an Age of Spin

 
Assignment Media Literacy:

Understanding media literacy

Video Introduction to media literacy (3:46)

What is media literacy?

Media literacy is like reading literacy

Critical Thinking
About Media Literacy

(21:00)

Media Literacy for Media Reform: Turning Apathy into Activism

Media Literacy in cyberspace

Media literacy: who needs  it?

Tuning In To Media

Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Media Production         LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!

Lights, Camera, Language Arts (10:27)

Video Technology and iMovie Productions (04:17)
 


You be the producer

Teaching Media: Media Production in the Classroom
(UK) (14:04)

Creating media can help us become media literate

Media
Violence
   
 
    The Killing Screens: Media & the Culture of Violence (5:59)

Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times (6:17)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (7:02)
Mind Over Media:  Helping Kids Get the Message (2:24)

TV Violence and You
Music     Hip Hop; Beyond Beats and Rhythms

Money for Nothing

Dreamworlds 2: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video

Dreamworlds 3: Sex, Desire & Power in Music Video
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhythms

Frontline: The Way the Music Died
  Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (4:52)

Dreamworlds 2: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video (5:55)


Money For Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music (5:51)
 
New Media          
 
New Media Exemplar Library Overview
Parody           Spaghetti Harvest Spaghetti
Tree
Harvest
Politics/
political
Advertising
Political Advertising: Tactics & Campaign Ethics
(26:00)
    Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Political Advertising
 

The 30 Sec. Candidate

Campaign Essentials
(9 video segments)
 
Techniques of Persuasion
(9 video segments)

Mass Media and Presidential Campaigns
(2:25)

The Role of Television Advertising in Presidential Elections (1:10)
Media Persuasion Techniques in Presidential Ads
(9:38)
The Living Room Candidate

Historical Look At Campaign Commercials

Historic Campaign Ads

View Smart To Vote Smart

Disconnected: Politics, the Press, and the Public

Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1952 Presidential Campaign

Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1956 Presidential Campaign
Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Prescription Drug
Advertising
      Frontline: Alternative Fix   Big Bucks, Big Pharma Documentary (4:52)

Big Bucks, Big Pharma Extra: Drug Costs and PR (3:50)
 
Product
Placement
   

Behind The Screens: Hollywood goes Hypercommercial
    Behind the Screens
(5:37)
Product Displacement
(2:52)
Propaganda   Historical Propaganda - Japanese Internment WWII (9:28) War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death
 
  1. America in the 20th Century: World War I: The War in Europe
2. Archives of War: World War Two: The Leaders
3. Men of our Time: Hitler
  Goebbels: Master of Propaganda

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Photography
Public
Relations
    Toxic Sludge Is Good For You     Toxic Sludge is Good for You - (1/5)
 
 
Radio
(see also Music)
          The Secret Life of Machines: Radio (9:47)  
Stereotypes
(Gender/
Representation)
    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People     Representation & the Media: Featuring Stuart Hall (5:33) Sexual
Stereotypes In The Media


Sexual Stereotypes in Media: Superman and the Bride
Television           History of Television - Part One (1957)
03:28
Archives of American TV (Interviews)

Broadcast Television
Tobacco     Deadly Persuasion:
The Advertising of
Alcohol & Tobacco


Pack of Lies
  Smoking: The Burning Truth (Smoking & Advertising)

Talking About Tobacco
(Tobacco & Advertising)

What About Tobacco
(Tobacco & Advertising)

Ad-Libbing It (22:03)
120000 Lives a Year
(8:59)


Cigarette Ads - Banned in USA (9:58)

Documentary on Tobacco in Indian Movies  (7:23)

Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco (7:18)
 
Tobacco marketing (2:16)

Redefining Liberation
(1:20)

Smoking Out the Truth: Teens and Tobacco

Smoke Screeners
Tobacco
Parody &
Counter
advertising
Slime & Anti-tobacco Magic Wand

History of Tobacco Advertisments

Too smart for Target Marketing
 

        The Truth - Hypnosis TV Ad
(:29)

The Truth - Shredder 2000 TV Ad (:29)

Super Bowl - American Legacy Foundation: Glass Freeze Pops (:29)
Animaction
Visual Literacy             Language of Photography

Images in Media

Photography: Making Art and Recording Life

Photographic Storytelling

Truth or Fiction? Photography and Ethics

War & Media

 
War Reporters Part 1
(8:43)
      First Television War:
A Documentary Report 
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Buying the War | Excerpt | PBS

War Made Easy - TRAILER
 
War Spin: The Media and the Iraq War

Reporters at War: War, Lies, and Videotape

Critical Focus:
Media & War
Writing & Media            
Writing for An Audience: Persuasion

News Writing

American Cinema:
Writing & Thinking About Film