Component 1: Blog Critical Reflection Questions and Student Self-Assessment

 

Understanding and explaining, how media products construct and communicate meanings, through close analysis of the interaction of media language and audience responses.

Objective: To introduce students to the Component 1 critical reflection questions, closed analysis of a media product created by Media Studies candidates and to self-reflect on their media product. Other goals: ·        It provides an insight into how the technical elements and media concepts are used to create meaning with the purpose of targeting an audience. ·        Students will also develop and analyze how they used their practical skills using software and hardware technology to complete their media products.

Instructions:   1.   Fill in your responses using your own words. Please note I will be checking to see if my students are using AI to answer these questions. 2.   Use the 9607 AICE Media Studies Syllabus and the Component 1 Blog PPT  to assist you in answering the questions. 3.   Once you have completed the table, copy it into a new draft to create your second blog post. 4.   The title is listed above, and it should be placed under the Introduction section of your blog site. 5.    Check on your post to make sure the table is clearly visible and not cut off when published. If it is, please edit and update the website. 6.   Check blog post again in published mode to make sure everything has been updated. 7.   Copy web address in the published mode and not in the draft mode and submit on CANVAS by the end of class. 8.   Also submit a PDF copy of this to Canvas for full credit.

1. What is the purpose of the Component 1 blog website in reference to your syllabus is? (Read the syllabus.)

The purpose of my ____develop a critical understanding of international media through engagement with media products and concepts ___________________________

2. Who is the audience? (Read the syllabus.)

The target audience(s) is/are ___Cambridge, teachers, and other students____________________________________

Goal 1: Student understands the purpose and audience of their media product.

A Sophisticated understanding (10-9)

B Thorough understanding (8)

C Clear understanding (7)

D Limited understanding (6)

F No credit

Grade   7

3. What is a student blog? (Google and refer to your syllabus.)

It is where students document their thoughts and process on the subject they are learning.

4. What of type of media form is a blog?

New media

5. What type of media product is a blog?

Digital diary

Goal 2: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of media concepts

A Sophisticated understanding (5)

B Thorough understanding (4)

C Clear understanding (3)

D Limited understanding (2)

F No credit

Grade 7

Four Conventions of a Blog Website How does your blog construct and communicate meanings through close analysis of the interaction of media language and audience responses? (Think about the purpose and target audience.) •      What is purpose of the blog and how did you use media language (Design, arrangement and content)? •      The purpose is to document the process of filming a movie and analyzing media. I convey it by having the blog fit my taste in media, and my blog being about media studies. •      How does my blog engage my target audience? How do you want your audience to respond to your blog. •      My blog is set up and the content in it, I talk about the media I consume and the type of movie I'm interested in.

1. Home Page

6. The important of the homepage  is to communicate that my media product is ______psychological horror________ 7. The media language I used to engage my audience are______How my blog looks through the colors. Black and red. __________________

2. Design: Design template design and arrangement, colors, font (style, color and size), and background image.

8.  The design template I used was __________ Ethereal Blossoms Single Blue _____________________ because ___it was easier to design compare to the other template.__________________ (meaning). 9. The colors I chose are _______red and black________ because _______I like consuming gothic content ______________ (meaning). 10. By choosing _______josefin sans_____ font, it illustrates that ____it was written by hand__________________________________. 11. The background image, I selected was influenced by _______goth taste________________________________.

Goal 3: Ability to use technical skills effectively to express and communicate ideas.

A Sophisticated understanding (10-9)

B Thorough understanding (8)

C Clear understanding (7)

D Limited understanding (6)

F No credit

Grade 7

3. Posts: What will my component 1 blog posts be about? ( Read your syllabus and the component 1 PPT PDF details.)

12. My component 1 blog posts will be about _______producing a media product(movie)that includes digital evidence__________________________________.

4. What is your first blog post about and its objective?

13. My first blog is about ___how important media studies is and what I think my movie is about____________________________________________ and the main objective is to ______make a movie__________________ my audience for the purpose of ___grading for______cambridge____________.

Goal 4: Ability to use appropriate media language to communicate meaning to an intended audience

A Sophisticated understanding (10-9)

B Thorough understanding (8)

C Clear understanding (7)

D Limited understanding (6)

F No credit

Grade   8

Distribution

•      What application was used to distribute your Component 1 work?

14. The application I used to distribute my Component 1 content is___________youtube_and Blogger________________________________________.

•      Other application I used to complete this assignment.

15. The other application (s) is/are _______blogger and canvas_______________________________________________________.

•      List 3 reasons, why the application was suitable for the media product? •

16. Three reasons are _because it easy to use, accessible, and you can alway go back to fix it _______________________________________________________.

•      List two other new media products that could you have used to distribute my component 1 content.

17. Two other new media products that I could have used to distribute my component 1 content are __Patreon and __capcut______________________.

Goal 5: Ability of product to engage with audiences and to be distributed as a real media text?

A Sophisticated understanding (5)

B Thorough understanding (4)

C Clear understanding (3)

D Limited understanding (2)

F No credit

Grade 3

Technology

6. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project. What other software you used to create your first post? Word documents What hardware did you use to create your first blog post? *Software the programs and other operating information used by a computer. *Hardware the external and internal devices and equipment that enable you to perform major functions such as input, output, storage, communication, processing, and more. (computer, internet, phones, etc.)

18. Other software I used in the completion of my blog and first blog posts were____Word from Microsoft ___________________________________. 19.  The hardware I used to complete my product are _______computer and phone______________________.

Goal 6: Ability to integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

A Sophisticated understanding (10-9)

B Thorough understanding (8)

C Clear understanding (7)

D Limited understanding (6)

F No credit

Grade 6

Goal 6: Application of knowledge and understanding of key concepts to a production.

A Sophisticated understanding (10-9)

B Thorough understanding (8)

C Clear understanding (7)

D Limited understanding (6)

F No credit

Grade 6

Goal 7: Student completed the Personalization of their Component 1 Blog. 1.     Added a background image. 2.     Changed their font style, color and size. 3.     Added 2 sections: Introduction and Preliminary Exercises Tabs. 4.     Completed blog post 1 and 2 and added them to their section.

A Student completed 100% of the requirements for the assignment. (10-9)

B Student completed 80% of the requirements for the assignment. (8)

C Student completed 75% of the requirements for the assignment. (7)

D Student completed 60% of the requirements for the assignment. (6)

F Under 60% no credit.

Grade 8

A Sophisticated use of media language shows insightful engagement with audience (9-10)

B Effective use of meda language shows appropriate engagement with audience (8)

C Clear use of media language shows some engagement with audience (7)

D Limited use of media language shows general engagement with audience (6)

F No credit

Goal 8: Completion of self-assessment.

A Sophisticated understanding (5)

B Thorough understanding (4)

C Clear understanding (3)

D Limited understanding (2)

F No credit

Grade 4

Goal 9: Correct Submittal for Evaluation.

A Sophisticated understanding and application of submittal (5)

B Thorough understanding and application of submittal (4)

C Clear understanding and application of submittal (3)

D Limited understanding and application of submittal (2)

F No credit

Grade 5

Goal 10: On-time.

A Ontime (5)

Grade 5

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