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  Select a significant purpose typical of your discipline/grade level. My name is:  Sammy Daynes My content area/discipline is:  Theatre Ed The grade level I plan to teach is:  Middle/High school The typical educational purpose I will address is:  Advertising auditions for an after-school play 2. My reason for choosing this purpose is: I anticipate having to make a poster for this specific purpose the first time I teach at a school. I want it to be something interesting and engaging that will encourage as many students as possible to audition. 3. Multimedia artifact for accomplishing this purpose: Poster/flyer 4. Possible technological tools for creating this: Graphic design tools 5. The tool I will use: Canva, a website for creating graphic designs 6. What have you done to try to evaluate sources for bias and avoid biased portrayals of diverse identities?  Why is this important? I wanted this poster to seem like something accessible for anyone, and that i...

Reading Social Media   Social media texts can include pictures, video, or words, and sometimes a mixture of all three. This genre is fairly new and is used millions of times a day by everyday people. While it may seem strange to analyze the social media posts of people who perhaps do not consider themselves artists, learning to see patterns and discern new ideas about social media posts can help to draw conclusions about the person posting them, or at least determine the image they are trying to portray.   What kind of image/text is present?   Social media posts can be both incredibly simple and very nuanced. How often do you see posts by your friends and family with simple photo updates and a caption, updating the world on how their life is going? At least every day, if you are active on social media. But social media feeds are also beset with ads, news updates, videos or photos meant to draw a laugh. Discerning what type of media is present is the best way to determine ...

 

THIS WAS THE HARDEST THING EVER. There are so many amazing media pieces that are so important to me, how am I supposed to choose 10??     In the end, I decided on ten things that I have rolled over in my mind, pondered on, discussed with others about, and spent a significant amount of time thinking about. The media that I keep coming back to, that I never get tired of, where I keep finding new and amazing and beautiful insights that touch and change my life. Here they are, in no particular order: East of Eden (Book by John Steinbeck)   Hamlet (Play by William Shakespeare)   How to Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks film)   Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Book series by Rick Riordan)   Peter and the Starcatcher (Play by Rick Elice)   “She’d Say” (Song, Andy Grammar)   “From Now On” (Song, The Greatest Showman)   Cabin Pressure (Radio Show, John Finnemore)   The Chosen (VidAngel TV series)   Every Brilliant Thing (Play by Dustin Macmillan...