The Media Spot

Super Battery Fairy, a PSA on recycling rechargeable batteries by Class 4-302 at PS 124 will be showing at the Thirteen/WNET, WLIW21 Celebration of Teaching and Learning as a winner of the 2010 Chase Multimedia in the Classroom Awards Competition.

After researching hazards related to the improper disposal of rechargeable batteries, students wrote a script with Mr. Marsano keeping them focused on the problem, and what the students wanted their audience to do about it. To "hook" their audience, students decided to take a serious tone with elements of humor.  Come on in and have a look at their PSA, the "making-of" process-based documentary, and our production notes. 

One of three videos produced for The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, this video demonstrates legal uses of copyrighted materials in the context of a 4th grade media education video production. It also captures the TMS production process in action on a well-integrated media education production project. The video shows a class of Title I 4th grade students search for, analyze and acquire copyrighted images and music, then "repurpose" those works to create unique videos. This production process dislodges the works from their original purpose, and transforms them into the necessary building blocks of a rich critical thinking activity.

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.

The class brainstormed ways of appealing to that specific audience, and once their attention was held, what they wanted to communicate. Their video also includes an introduction that explains their production process.