CNN.com posted misleading graph showing poll results on Schiavo case

http://mediamatters.org/items/200503220005

Winston Churchill

gives the victory sign

at a political rally,

Liverpool, 1951

The "V" for victory that Winston Churchill used (with the palm facing outward, same as the American sign for "peace"), when the palm is reversed, it means something else... If a person used two fingers to order two beers in a British pub.. it has insulting connotations…

the two fingers in a 1st grade math class may refer to the number "two"

"OK" in the United States "money" in Japan "sex" in Mexico "homosexual" in Ethiopia an obscenity in Brazil “Zero” in Southern France

“Numbers.” Time Magazine 155, no 6 (Feb 14, 2000); 25

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BLAME somebody or something No parent involvement? Too much TV/ New media No enough reading

Or question the data? Who did the research? Who sponsored it? Who were the participants?

We may simply say language evolves?

Today, we cannot read and understand old English ?

We may also argue that our students are not learning another language…

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html

John Roberts

Samuel Alito

http://www.griid.org/pdfs/medialit-exercise-01.pdf

http://www.griid.org/pdfs/medialit-exercise-04.pdf

The trouble…is that we have taken our democracy for granted; we have

thought and acted as if our forefathers had founded it once and for all. We

have forgotten that it has to be enacted anew in every generation.

John Dewey

What do they have in common?

They are Arab-Americanshttp://www.aaiusa.org/famous_arab_americans.htm

http://www.aaiusa.org/PDF/Cas.Broch.(AAIF-V).pdf

Test your knowledge- http://www.aaiusa.org/resources/421/test-your-knowledge

Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where it's flat and immense And the heat is intense It's barbaric, but hey, it's home { Original first verse (1992-93): Oh I come from a land, from a faraway placeWhere the caravan camels roam Where they cut off your ear If they don't like your face It's barbaric, but hey, it's

home }

"I learned how to deconstruct commercials, how to use the camera equipment, and how to create a public service announcement. Most importantly, I experienced that every message can be interpreted differently. Depending on the era, personal experience, each sign makes different meaning to different people.Prior to taking this course, I simply watched a commercial at face value. I never really looked at the details or asked myself what target audience the advertising company was aiming for. Since class, I have been a commercial-analyzing junkie. I look at the color scheme, the logo, the endorser (if there is one), choice of music, and the intended target audience.”

“I am happy to have met

you, because you have

given me much more to

think about than just the

content of this class.

… More than learning video

production, this course

gave me the chance to

reflect on my own viewing

habits and I learned

something about myself.”

04/21/23William Paterson University 38

http://www.ncrel.org/

IHow to use Wikipedia for academia

Source: http://xkcd.com/256

• The first Wiki, WikiWikiWeb, was created by Ward Cunningham in 1995

• Named after Hawaiian bus service, Wiki Wiki

• Allows users to easily create and edit Web pages using any Web browser

• Encourages democratic use of Web

Source: http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

“Wikipedia is a great place to start, not end, your research”

Dr. Alex Halavaishttp://alex.halavais.net

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