Deconstruction-Wheat Thins Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8-5hU1cr8

1. Who paid for the ad?
The wheat thins company paid for this ad.

2. Why does the company need to do the ad?
The company needs to do the add so they can sell more wheat thins out in the market.

3. What group is targeted by the ad?
Anyone who loves wheat thins is really being targeted by this ad. Also I think anyone who likes Family Guy, it is a popular show so the wheat thins company really used that to their advantage.

8. What techniques of persuasion are used?
The characters are saying "wheat thins" over and over again (total of 21 times) and they want you to keep that in your head so it kind of sticks with you. Also they are sort of fighting over the wheat thins which makes them seem delicious.

12. What is not told?
This commercial doesn't tell how much the wheat thins are or what kinds they sell. From my personal knowledge I know they have many flavors but here it doesnt show or say it.

14. Is it closer to fantasy or reality?
I would say this commercial is more of fantasy because dogs cant talk with humans.

15. Does it use stereotype?
This commercial doesn't use any stereotypes that I saw.

PBS Teachers-Digital Media Literacy

Quiz Yourself: Share how you scored on the quiz - did anything surprise you?

• On the quiz I only got 4/12 right. Some of the answers I was surprised at for example this question... In 2009, what was the average amount of time spent with all forms of media for 8 to 18 year-olds in the US? I said the answer was 8 hours and 29 minutes however the answer was 10 hours and 45 minutes.
  

The Digital Media Landscape: For each of the 4 sections in this area, share at least one link that you explored and what you learned.

• What Is It?-The link I looked at in this section was TeacherWeb. At this site I learned that you can make websites for your classroom that parents can look at and keep up to date with. I am not sure what I think about this, I kind of like the whole newsletter print out but this way work for some people who like computers. http://www.teacherweb.com/
• How Do I Use It- The link I looked at is called Education World: Technology Integration. In this link It tells you many apps that you can use as a teacher. One of these apps is called TeacherPal. It helps you organize all of your things in one calendar like app. http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/
• Learn More- I looked at this link...Digital Directions Online and found an article where an ipad, using braille, helped a blind child learn. The article is called Digital Revolution Changing Lives of Students With Disabilities. http://www.edweek.org/dd/
• Examples- I have never heard of SchoolTube so I clicked on it and I found something amazing! There is a youtube video that a math teacher made to the music of Nicki Minaj's song Super Base, however the teacher changed the words to make a song about maths exponents. I found this incredibly helpful. It was just last night that I was trying to help explain to my younger sister about exponents. I showed her the video and it seemed to click with her. Weird right? http://www.schooltube.com/
  

PBS Resources: Review one of the resources listed. Share your insights or connections.

• At PBS Resources i looked at a link called PBS TeacherLine. I never heard of it before so I decided to take look. At this site you can do so many things; you can sharpen your teaching skills online and look through their catalogs and find any subject.
  

Integrating Digital Content and Tools: Review this list and share which suggestions intrigue you enough that you would like to try it with your own students one day. Share the reasons for your choice.

• One that intrigues me and someday would like to try with my students would be to use Google Earth to do a geography project. For example we could look at the biggest dams in the world and we could look them up and actually see what they look like. I think the children would really engage and like this project because they get to see other places.