Essential Media Technologies

Blogger- Useful for sharing resources between teachers, hosting lesson resources such as videos & presentations, setting work, having work stored for exam preparation, students' own blogs ensure teachers record their work/progress, allow them to upload multimedia files, engage them in their learning (www.blogger.com)

Prezi- cool and sexy presentation programme (www.prezi.com)

Wordle - useful for introducing concepts and recording key terms (www.wordle.com)

Scribd- website which allows you to upload documents to publish to blog sites (www.scribd.com)

YouTube- essential for all aspects of Media Studies teaching; examples of Media texts, presentations on different areas of the Media, information on New Technologies etc... (www.youtube.com)

Embedding documents- on the programme go to the 'SHARE' icon and click embed, you will then be given a code to copy, copy this and paste it in the 'EDIT HTML' section of your post