Sameenah Ahmed 9H1

Lesson 1

Title: What is Media Studies?

By the end of the lesson:

All Must – research, understand key media concepts (main tasks)

Most will – analyse key concepts (extension 1)

Some will- evaluate key concepts (extension 2)

Main Task 1 - Answer the following questions

1. What is media studies? Write a short definition.

…media studies is the study of the variety of ways communicating with large audiences using technology ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. Write down between three and five different ‘media areas’.

Some examples of different media areas are television, films, radio, newspapers, blogs and magazines………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Write down the four expectations for Media Studies lessons

Follow academy rules at all times

‘Monitors off’ means monitors off

Stay silent when the teacher is talking

Key Words

Media Studies

Media areas

L/O’s:

Maximum effort at all time

Main Task 2

Research the history of the following media areas and record 3 key facts in the boxes below (e.g. date invented or first used, key people/organizations, important advances). The first one has been done for you…

Plenary: Self-evaluation

Films

Television

Progress Bar:- Circle your effort level for today’s lesson.

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TV

1. First British TV broadcast: 1932

2. First broadcasts made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

3. Early Television Broadcasting technology was developed by Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird

Radio

1. The first radio that was invented was in 1810

2. The earliest radio stations were radiotelegraphy systems and had no audio.

3. Radio broadcasting comes in many forms for example, FM and AM.

Internet

1. Vint Kurf and Bob Kahn invented the internet.

2. Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks.

3. The domain name system of the Internet includes top level domains such as .com, .info, .net, .org, .edu, .mil and .gov as well as country specific domains.

Newspaper

1. In the present day most newspaper articles can be found online.

2. Newspapers are normally published daily or weekly.

3. Some of the content consists of sports, world news, entertainment and science.

Key Media Areas Radio

Newspapers

WWW:

I think what went well was that I was able to find interesting facts and I completed most of my work.

EBI:

I was able to move on to the extension.

Progress Bar:The effort level your teacher has marked you for today’s lesson.

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