Media Theory Direct CD-ROM

Subject: Media Studies
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 16 - 18
Order Number: 5202

Media Studies is an increasingly popular option for post 16 students. Media teachers are often thrown in at the deep end and have to put together a course without advice, and often without proper training. An experienced, successful head of media studies and examiner has created this resource, and it works! One vital aspect of performing well, especially at A2, is the mastery of basic media theory. Often textbooks have snippets of theory ranging across over two hundred pages: this resource concentrated them all into an easily digested format of less than fifty pages. Media Theory Direct covers all the knowledge your students will need to deliver the theoretical aspects of the AS and A2 courses. The resource comes in the form of a Microsoft Word file, designed for easy printing and has hyperlinks throughout to allow easy and quick navigation between theories and theorists. There are twenty-nine different media theories and theorists from Marx and Freud to Levis-Strauss and Baudrillard, using clear and simple student-friendly language to explain their ideas. There is a fifty word multiple-choice test to assess whether students have grasped the essentials, and finally a hyperlinked essay modelling best practice for the aspiring media student. Once purchased, the file can easily be converted to HTML format and networked on your institution's intranet.

To use the resource you will need a Mac or PC and Microsoft Word, and Explorer if you choose to network the resource.

Once purchased, this CD can be freely copied and networked throughout the school.