wow! It sure has been awhile since my last blog!! Well we are all back from our break and I have to say that it sure wasn't a break. I basically planned to do so much during the week and I got nothing done! But then I didn't do anything fun either, like skiing or a trip.I really should of made my last winter break rememberable but in the end it was the same as any other winter break!

After class on Tuesday I went to Alec's blog to check out the link to Media Awareness he had up there.
Media Awareness

In this site there is a brochure directed to teachers to help their students understand what media education is and the importance of being aware of what you see on TV, magazines, and internet. We live in a media centred world, and I believe that students need to be able to analysis images and text in media and decide whether this images are appropriate or not. Many times are society will take things at face value and not think critically about what they are seeing. For, example while looking through magazines I started looking at the girls in this magazines. I noticed that most of the girls were showing cleavage and very skimpy clothing. Also I noticed that this women were in very sexual poses or in dismissive positions. Then I watched the movie Killing you softly posted by Tristan. In this clip she talked about when women or girls are posed in fashion magazine spreads most of their poses are dismissive to the male making the male in the dominate role. The speaker of the video even suggested that in SEARS catalogs the babies are posed in this dismissive role. The girl in shy and looking down and usually standing backish the boy in dominate being bold, with straight shoulders and looking at the camera. This got me to thinking, about how this might effect children. If all they are seeing is women and girls in these dismissive roles then of course girls self esteem is going to be effected. Even in today's world the media placed these sterotypes in media.

By now I am sure you have guessed that for mine and Tristan final project we are creating a documentary/ video on the how the media effect women's body images of themselves. I am super excited about and feel that it will be a great resource to use in the classrooms. I am o looking foward to seeing how it will end up.