Media Literacy Ideas

Earlier in the year (in November) Chris Higgins (media teacher extraordinaire..and all round great guy) and myself made a Media Literacy Presentation at the annual ECCO conference. ECOO stands for Educational Computing Organization of Ontario. The annual meeting highlights all aspects of educational computing. Chris and I presented a number of different media ideas. Our premise was to present one media Literacy idea for each grade from Kindergarten to Grade 8. I've included the PDF of the handout we distributed which sketched out the basics of each of the activities.

The activities are as follows:

Kindergarten: Creating a toy flyer.

Our toy flyer-(kinder).pdf

Example

Grade 1: Creating classroom signs similar to street signs

Sign Me Up (Gr.1).pdf

Grade 2: Creating a menu featuring food from cultural celebrations

Celebration Menu (Gr.2).pdf

Example #1 and Example #2

Grade 3: Exploring identity through “The Best Part of Me”

Best Part of Me(gr3).pdf

Grade 4: Medieval Podcast