Artifact # 6
Context:
The Ethnography was created using the web page editing program Netscape Composer and the word processing program Microsoft Word. Digital Cameras were used to capture the photographs as well as regular cameras. Pictures were sometimes scanned into the computer and then manipulated using the software entitled Adobe Photoshop. A group of 6 people were working together at a specific Elementary school to create the project.
Impact:
It is important that teachers understand about the world around them.
As a professional educator, students are looking up to and critiquing all
that one says. Therefore, it is necessary to become familiar with
different tactics that the media uses to manipulate its audience.
One way to do this is to become media literate so that one can better inform
his or her students about the impact that media has on the students’ lives.
Alignment:
The Ethnography project deals with collecting information about students’
use and exploitation of the media. Students are often unaware of
the effects that the media has on their own lives. After collecting
and analyzing the information, we created a web page that presented the
group's thoughts and conclusions about the effect of the media on students’
lives. We then presented the web page and our findings to the rest
of our class (Tech. Comp. IV.B). This project helps students
recognize the positive and negative uses of media and technology (Tech
Comp. VI.D). It puts students in the position to evaluate themselves
and come up with their own conclusions as to how the world around them
is affecting their everyday lives. By simply collecting and presenting
the information, students are becoming more aware.