Examine the effects of media (e.g., television, print materials, Internet, magazines, cell phones) on daily life 0501.7.6

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1. Adapting to Your Audience - adjust the message - how we say to and what information we include
2. The American Memory Collection - American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
3. American Rhetoric - Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events
4. Audience Analysis - audience analysis can help you gain valuable insight about your readers
5. Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization - Each listener creates mental images to accompany the words and sounds that are broadcast, allowing these broadcasts to create a one-to-one connection that no other medium can match. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising - Studying the influence of mass media on our lives [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
7. Elements of Messages - lesson plan - explore various media include literary, artistic or visual, and technical elements to convey messages to audiences. Students analyze and compare various media elements. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
8. The Function of Images in Text - The lesson will focus on three major ways - as example, as evidence, and as expression - that images can be used in a text. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
9. Get Media Smart - encourages users to think critically about media and become smart consumers. Activities on the site are designed to provide users with some of the skills and knowledge needed to question, analyze, interpret and evaluate media messages
10. Images As Persuasion - images can be used to convey messages that may influence an audience
11. Images: Focus on the details! - Learn how to unlock the meaning of images providing students with a broader understanding of events, objects and people
12. The Internet's Impact on Political Participation - lesson plan - Discuss what aspects of the Internet and its culture affect individual participation in the political process at the local, state, and national level
13. Media Awareness: The Basics of Advertising - understanding the influence of marketing
14. Media Awareness: Key Concepts in Advertising - continuing to explore the elements of marketing
15. Media Awareness: Helping a Product Cross the Finish Line - In this final lesson of the Media Awareness unit, students will complete their advertisements, adding in details (such as color and symbols) and background/foreground space on the picture plane
16. Media Elements - chart format of questions to ask when evaluating media. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
17. Overview of Fifty-Two Media - learn about the different types of media and their purpose
18. Photo Analysis Guide - how to analyze photo elements
19. Project Vote Smart - At Project Vote Smart, Americans young and old volunteer their time, take no money from special interests groups, and are committed to providing you with the most relevant, unbiased information on over 40,000 candidates and officials.
20. TV Smarts for Kids - a set of three short videos designed to promote critical thinking about the media
21. Understanding Persuasion - article with key points on how to sway and influence people

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