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4th Grade PSA on Global Warming
Class 4-302 at PS 124 produced a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the effects of global warming and what we can do about them. After researching this topic as part of a social studies unit, class discussions determined that a class PSA could be effective by creating feelings of guilt in adults over their participation in things that could have devastating effects on the students' future.

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Likewise, you can do things like insist that your schools do media literacy, and real media literacy. There's two types of media literacy. There's the type that actually teaches you how the system works, what advertisers are trying to do, understand it to be a critical participant. Then there's the type that the media companies want to do, which is basically to train you to like certain types of shows, but not question the system.

— Bob McChesney, on PBS FRONTLINE

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March 17, 2007 by Rhys

Ecology Video Still 5-303 made 6 different videos out of the same set of video footage that they shot on their trip to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in February, 2007. Their productions demonstrate the power of decision making in video editing to create infinite messages with the same source material.

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While some groups made documentary-style recounts of our trip, others made public service announcements on why it is important to protect our environment, and so on. Using the Mac program iMovie in groups, they chose what clips they wanted to include, wrote and recorded narration, and added music and effects to create unique messages. After 2 rounds of screening them as a class, critiquing and re-editing, they finished their final cuts and shared them with their peers yesterday.

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