Media Group Project

Media Group Project Instructions:

Each member of the class will work in a group to complete either the media group project OR the non-fiction assignment.

The goal of this assignment is to experience the process of identifying media trends and using those trends to:

• promote library services
• advocate for reading and literacy (information and media).

Assignment:

In this assignment you will work with other members of the class to identify a tween media trend and develop a focused tie-in collection and potential marketing and programming ideas.

• Each group will select a medium (first come! first serve!)
  • Film, television, Web, music, magazines.
• Group members will contribute  a review of 5 items within the medium developed for or marketed to tweens (i.e., if you are looking at a web site it needs to be Club Penguin, not Facebook.)
• Consider educational tie-ins – how can the element be used to learn? Provide a brief overview of a plan for using the item as a learning activity.
  • A discussion about this can take place with me to help generate ideas.
• Present the digital representation of the collection, in a scheduled Elluminate session.
• Each individual will provide a 60 second review of a selected item.
• The group as a whole will discuss the process of selection:
  • What criteria did you use?
  • What tools did you use?
  • What difficulties you did you have in finding potential titles?
  • What worked for you in finding potential titles?

Media Group Project Submission Instructions:
Submission:

Each member will submit to Angel a reflection on the process, include the URL of the digital collection.

• What criteria for selection did you use?
• What tools did you use to find/select titles?
• What successes and difficulties did you experience?
• Which titles did you submit to the project?
• How did you determine if it was a ‘tween’ title?
• Reflect on the process of collaboration to build the collection.
• What else does the professor need to know about this experience?