Welcome to the module ‘Manipulating Media’, a compulsory module for first year Media Studies students at the University of Winchester. This site holds all of the essential material that you will need to take this course. This is a double module taught over two semesters. The focus of this module will be the collaborative [...] Read more »
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A little help if you’d like to get the hang of Twitter, from a course I teach at the Church of England (bearing in mind that Twitter changed its layout yesterday!): Twitter for COFE on Prezi
You should reflect in detail on your own role, then you can start thinking about your group production process as a whole. And it’s results! This is difficult because you need to develop Critical Distance Critical Distance means stepping back and honestly analysing strengths and weaknesses It isn’t always easy to be honest about our [...] Read more »
In your blogs, we will be asking you to critically reflect on your work. But what exactly does that mean? Well let’s think about reflection as a metaphor. The most obvious link to make here is with a mirror. What does a mirror show us when we look at our reflection? We use the mirror [...] Read more »
The term ‘blogging’ is a very general one for a whole range of on-line writing. Effective blogging must include an awareness of audience (this holds true for all media). Remember that although your blog is a public document, the primary audience (apart from yourself) is an academic one, because you will be monitored throughout the [...] Read more »
We give it lots of names – reflection, evaluation, reflexivity, even meta-cognition, but it all begins in the same way . . . . . . each time you do something you ask “How successful was I?” Not just at the end of the project, but for each small element that makes up the whole [...] Read more »
Why write a blog? There are lots of reasons to do it: You might feel you have something important to say on a particular subject It may be a way of recording a particular time in your life It can be a marketing tool in business It is [...] Read more »
A key YouTube video introducing you to the crucial concept of critical thinking.
An ‘Elevator Pitch’ requires you to summarise yourself, or your project, in 30 seconds. Below is a rather cheesy video which has some helpful thoughts: Within some of the assignments that we have for you, you may essentially be make a pitch for the work that you’ve done to tutors/peers (so think about us [...] Read more »
We talked earlier about ‘ROI’. It can be hard to measure, but Google Analytics can help with some elements, as it can tell you where people have visited from, what publicity is positive, how long people stay, etc. Bookmarking Many people save bookmarks to their browsers on their computers. In this world of shared [...] Read more »
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