Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

TY Media Studies

  • 27-08-2010 4:26pm
    #1
    Chilli Con Kearney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭


    Hi all

    I am teaching a media studies module to transition years this year. I have some ideas and plans on what to do but would like to hear any that others may have, which they have taught/been taught and felt were worthwhile. All suggestions are welcome! :)

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Goosewad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Goosewad


    The two things that stand out from my TY Media Studies course were:

    -We had to pick an ad on television and analyse it in different ways. Its effectiveness, its general appeal, its humour, whatever else.
    -We made a spoof/fake (maybe mine was the only spoof) newspaper. Had to name it, write some articles, had to find a balance between the different types of articles and all that. Just a few pages/"columns" each. It was great fun.


  • #3
    implausible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    I did this before and just started with revision of JC media studies - the types of newspapers and reading tonnes. You could then go onto the roles of the different staff on a newspaper. Practising note-taking and/or dictation would be a useful skill in LC. A visit to a newspaper office could be fun. You could drag in Photography too, which would be a great help in answering on pictures on paper 1. Article and interview writing are great for paper 1 too. You could use the module to lead up to producing the school magazine.

    And then of course, there is the internet. Maybe they could do a boards.ie project!


  • #4
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    They could make a book - either write one like these TYs did, or make one using one of those 'send us your photos and text and we send you back a book' websites.

    Scenic views of the area? A book on the history of the area/the school? If they could make it a fund raising thing, they might actually sell a few and make some money.

    Actually I just thought - a calendar that covered the next three or four years might be a seller. Their photos and text, following a class study of what works and doesn't work in existing calendars that they can buy.


Advertisement