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Assessment in media education
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/worsnop/intropg-p.htm
Why is assessment important in media education?
Media education is a subject that seems to be constantly under threat for its existence. There are many reasons for these threats:

NewsTrawler
http://www.newstrawler.com/
Meta Search Engine ... for news stories.

Museum of Advertising Icons
http://www.toymuseum.com/main.html
Enter a word or phrase which is either in the icon's name or the corresponding company name. You can also search by groups or company, i.e. dogs or Kellogs.
SEARCH TIPS The following groups will locate several icons: automobile, bird, cat, dog, shoes, electronic, fast food, medicine, soft drinks, pet, pizza etc.

Transparency
http://www.transparencynow.com/
...a web site that tries to make things clear.
Transparency is based on the idea that all media, politics, and popular culture -- and ultimately all aspects of personality -- can be opened up to our view and understanding. The site interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture.

Mass Media Use in the Classroom
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed436016.html
In its 75th anniversary issue (November-December 1995) the education journal "Clearing House" reprinted an article originally published in 1930. Entitled "Educating the Twentieth-Century Youth," the article argued that 20th-century youth should be taught using 20th-century methods and went on to discuss the use of the stereograph, the stereopticon slide, the radio, and the motion picture (Dorris, 1995).