Evaluations 10.08

To be completed over the course of the next week (by Friday 24-10).

Your responses will be used to help write your Interim Reports and help us to plan a better course for you.

1. SELF EVALUATION

Write an evaluation of your progress on the Media course so far.
Post the work up on your blogs. If you haven't been asked to set one up yet then do this work on paper and hand in to your main Media teacher.

a. Comment on each of the following, giving yourself a grade with an explanation outlining why:

(Grading should be1-5: 1 = excellent, 2 = v. good, 3 = good/average, 4 = poor, 5 = v. poor)

• Attainment
• Effort
• Punctuality
• Submission and quality of homework
• Ability to work independently
• Quality of writing
• Organisation of Media folder
• Oral contributions in class

b. Make a list of three achievements (www) and three targets/areas for improvement (ebi) over the next half-term.

2. COURSE EVALUATION

Write an evaluation of the actual course/teaching.
Please submit the work as a comment on this blog after this post. Include your name!

a. Answer each of the following with a grade (1-5), giving reasons/examples:

(Grading should again be1-5: 1 = excellent, 2 = v. good, 3 = good/average, 4 = poor, 5 = v. poor)

• How well is the course organised?
• How interesting is the content that is covered?
• How useful are the handouts?
• Have the lessons been well-paced?
• What is the standard of the teachers’ presentation/subject knowledge?
• How well has the course met your expectations?
• Have the extra-curricular events been useful? (eg. Awards Eve.)
• Has the Macguffin Blog been useful?

b. Make a list of three things you like and help you to learn (www) and three suggestions of things you’d like to see changed/improved (ebi).

Introduction Lessons Catchup/Revision

Not all of you have 100% attendance...more's the pity as you surely know how vital being in school is for the grades you'll ultimately get. There's no substitute for learning in the classroom, with other students, helped by your teachers.

But if you did miss anything, or if you'd like to go over the work we've done (strongly recommended) so everything is clear then you can access all the lesson Powerpoints here (you'll need to log in with your GHS VLE username/password)...

• Broadcasting Introduction Lessons
• Print Introduction Lessons
• E-Media Introduction Lessons

...it's worth downloading the files and printing them out to put in your folders so you have notes for reference and to revise from.

12C1 HW - Magazine Pitch

To be completed on your blogs by Monday's lesson (period 1, 20.10.08)...

Write up the magazine title and reader profile you created last lesson (that includes key demographic and psychographic features...age, class, attitudes and aspirations).

Create a list of target advertisers (both products and brands) x20.

You have decided that one of these brands should run a promotion (competition) with your magazine.

What will that competition mechanic comprise (what does the reader have to do to enter) and what will the prize be?

You must prepare a ‘pitch’ presentation to the marketing director (300 words) of your chosen product/brand explaining why they should provide you with the given products and what value.

Make sure you consider your target audience in any decisions you make.

Internet Regulation Task

12c1 Homework

Please post up on your blogs by the next lesson (Mon 06.10), even if you weren't in the lesson last week!

Devise a system for regulating the internet.

• Consider firstly what are the issues surrounding being able to access ideas from all over the world publishing our words and images?
• Who would be responsible for internet regulation
• Are there any existing bodies who could/should do this?
• Would it require a new organisation?
• How would the regulation be monitored?