Friday, March 4, 2011

Report on Advertising During a Favourite Show

Watch a favourite TV show (including the commercials). Count the number of advertisements shown. What products or services are being sold? What messages are you being given by the ads? Do you or would you use any of these advertised products? Why or why not? Did you see any advertisement twice? Write about your experience in paragraph form. (150 to 200 words)


Here is a link to an English class in 2009 responding to this assignment.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Links to Sir Ken Robinson's Lecture and Graphic

Here is the link to his lecture, Changing Education Paradigms


Here is the link for the graphic used in the lecture. (note this is a large file and will take time to upload to your computer; save a copy locally if you wish)