UnderstandMedia Social Network

I work on the road a lot, and I’m constantly creating and editing all types of files. But between creating files on the desktop, the laptop, the iPad, and my Android phone, things were getting messy.

Enter Dropbox. You sign up for service (you can get a free 2gb account), then download the Dropbox software on all of your devices. You instantly get a shared folder that you can store any file in. I often write TO DO lists on my Macbook, then access the list on my phone through the Dropbox app. I can also access my files on any computer by going to their website and logging in. If my laptop ever dies on me, I buy a new one, install Dropbox, and all of my files are there… I’d be up and running in 5 minutes.

Dropbox has helped make my mobile lifestyle a lot easier, and I highly recommend it.

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Each semester, my Comm 10 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. The are supposed to analyze media that they encounter, especially media related to race or gender stereotypes and biases. For summer courses, students write two blog posts per week.

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During the spring 2010 semester, the students in Santa Monica College’s Communications 2 (media literacy) course published the first issue of the Student Journal for Media Literacy Education. Under the supervision of Professor Nick Pernisco, the students wrote articles on the agreed upon theme of Media Literacy in Social Media. The students worked mostly in pairs on a selected topic within the theme, and they conducted their own research and analysis to produce their work. Although Professor Pernisco provided guidance, the students had the final say on the articles, the publication’s layout and logo, and even on the press release for the Journal.

The Spring 2010 issue of the Student Journal for Media Literacy Education is available below for download.

Click here to download the journal.

Each semester, my Comm 10 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. The are supposed to analyze media that they encounter, especially media related to race or gender stereotypes and biases. Read the rest of this entry →

Each semester, my Comm 10 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. The are supposed to analyze media that they encounter, especially media related to race or gender stereotypes and biases. Read the rest of this entry →

And now, a message from our CEO, Steve Layoffs.

Hello, and thank you for joining us on this glorious of all days – the best day of your lives!

We have something really special to share with you today. You already know all about it, because our marketing department has been leaking information to the eager press about it for months! We were just testing to see if you would actually want this thing we’re introducing today, and it seems you’d at least spend your money on it, so we went ahead and created it to sell to you. Read the rest of this entry →

A friend of mine recently presented at the K12 Online Conference on the issue of copyrights in the classroom. I thought I would expand on this, and discuss how copyrights come into play in college and university classrooms. Read the rest of this entry →

Each semester, my Comm 10 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. The are supposed to analyze media that they encounter, especially media related to race or gender stereotypes and biases. Read the rest of this entry →

Each semester, my Comm 10 students are required to have diversity media blogs. This assignment requires students to make a blog entry each week about their media consumption. The are supposed to analyze media that they encounter, especially media related to race or gender stereotypes and biases. Read the rest of this entry →

I’m a big believer that in order to succeed, we must first fail. Sometimes, the more miserably we fail, the greater our success will be. This is why I was especially impacted by this video. It illustrates why we need to fail before we can succeed. The stories are riveting, the visuals are compelling, and the moral of the story comes through clearly. Read the rest of this entry →