Mr. T's Podcast

This podcast episode will answer five essential reflection questions about my leadership journey. I'll provide an organized response to each question that synthesizes my week long experience attending the 2023 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy in Providence Rhode Island at the University of Rhode Island as a Tier 2 participant learning about leadership. This professional develop experience...

In this podcast I will center my thinking around my learning experience at the 2022 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy (SIDL) and four published articles about digital literacy. I’ll first guide us into the concept of digital literacy by sharing some definitions and insights I have gained over the last two weeks, synthesize what I’ve learned over the past two weeks, and provide ideas and persona...

In today's episode Danielle Williams and I sit down to explore an inquiry question: How can we best prepare educators to become creative collaborators and support culturally relevant pedagogy by fostering student authentic voices? Together we explore this concept of authenticity in voice and the empowerment and engagement that comes when students are given that opportunity to digitally document an...

Whom and what to trust? This is a constant battle but we can work at it.

With more content choices available than ever before, deciding which types of media to use (and when not to use them) is an important one.  We continue to apply this essential information by making key daily decisions for our mental health, maintaining positive social relationships, and career prospects. This is the module that allows us to explore how people, profit, and platforms shape the...

W e are living in the most challenging and complex information landscape in history. News literacy education empowers people with skills to successfully navigate this landscape. This module will allow us to focus on how we get the news, how framing and partisanship affects the news we receive and begin to focus on ways we can become better-informed and more engaged participants in our media satura...

Wrapping up Module 7 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Online course, the instructor provides a quick summary of mediated content deemed as violent and the implications explored in this module.

Wrapping up Module 5 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Online course, the instructor summarizes the mass media business and the pattern of government deregulation and the consolidation of media ownership.

Wrapping up Module 3 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Online course, the instructor summarizes the individual's selective processing and search personalization models embedded in our digital media experiences. 

This message recaps Module 2 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Course that focused on further defining what media literacy is and it's role in education and society.  We consider the key questions to ask when analyzing media content and why these critical set of questions and critical approaches to media content are essential to today's digital media environment.  

This is the first of a series of COMM 2300 module wrap ups where I take an opportunity to summarize the topics and learning objectives we targeted during the most recent course learning module.  

This brief recording wraps up module 8 of my online COMM 2327 Intro to Advertising Course.

This episode summarizes the historical development of the television and internet mediums and their significant cultural and societal impacts on our media world today. 

This message wraps up Chapter 7

This episode wraps up module 6 of the Introduction to Advertising Online Course.  The topic at hand here is Account Planning and Research.

This episode summarizes the key concepts and topics of chapter 5 in the Arens Advertising text. This wrap up includes the breakdown of the human communication process as applied to the field of Advertising and the cognitive processes that define consumer behavior.  

This short episode summarizes the foundation of target marketing and the strategies put in place to narrow cast products and services to the consumer.  Advertising has become very personalized and rightly so in order to increase the chances of these messages hitting the target.  

In this episode, I briefly summarize the key historical events of the written media to include newspapers, books, and magazines.  Images and words are all around us and now flood our digital media but what happens when words and images elude the paper and only head to the screen?  How can industries like news organizations, book publications, and magazines survive in the digital age?

This recording summarizes module 3 of the Introduction to Advertising course.

This is a short wrap up of module 2 which describes the complex environment of advertising.   

The first wrap up calls for us to think back about what major concepts and learning activities we engaged in during the first week of COMM 2327.  Students are given questions to ponder that will lead us into the next phase of the course. Questions for what is next: 1. What are some of the societal needs that are served by ads in the U.S? 2. What are some of advertising's societal shortcomings...

You made it past our first unit! This is the end of module one of our online Mass Communication Course. I provide a brief review of what we learned and how we can move forward in our course.

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