My week 1 CMap
Ok, here’s my first CMap. Unfortunately the info added to individual concepts is not visible in jpg format… I did not attempt to answer week 1 questions, find it kind of difficult to talk about things I don’t know enough about… I’m listening to week 1 wrap up as I’m posting this to catch up a bit with the conversations elsewhere. I enjoyed the readings and presentations so far, preweek and week 1ones, here are some hands on tips concerning critical media literacy I liked and highlighted in Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.
http://news.google.com – “aggregates articles from thousands of news sources worldwide. This allows users to compare and contrast the framing of a single issue from different media sources. Students are encouraged to read several articles closely, underlining words they believe might shape how readers understand and feel about what they are reading.” (p.46)
snopes.com – “Students might also be encouraged to take advantage of sites such as snopes.com, which regularly report on frauds and misinformation circulating online and provide good illustrations of the ways that one could test the credibility of information” (p.46)
questions to ask yourself – “• Who created the message? • What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?• How may different people understand this message differently than me?• What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in – or omitted from – this message?• Why is this message being sent?” (p. 58-59)
image manipulation – “students search for an image of an event (such as the March on Washington, the Kennedy assassination) and are taught how to change the picture in a way that changes the meaning. By manipulating images, students become familiar with the ways images may be altered to persuade and influence. In developing this manipulation skill, students are encouraged to think about why image, sound, and textual representations are altered and what that means to them as consumers, voters, and citizens.” (p. 46)
I was hoping to use the Diigo highlight feature for marking sections of interest in all those pdfs… does not seem to work with pdfs… 
