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Outcome Chart - Ontario - History CHA3U: American History

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHA3U: American History, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - History CHM4E: Adventures in World History

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHM4E: Adventures in World History, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart – Nova Scotia – Learning Strategies 10

Overall Expectations: Awareness of Self and Others

10.1 demonstrate an understanding of self and others, the similarities and differences that exist among people, and apply their understandings in a variety of learning situations

Specific Expectations:

10.1.5 identify and use a variety of strategies to enhance social competence and digital citizenship

10.1.6 demonstrate an understanding, respect, and recognition of the value of diversity

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Psychology 30 – Human Development (Grade 12)

Electronic gifts for preteens and teens (other than video games)

As your kids grow older, their gift requests may start to look a lot different than when they were younger. While they once circled all the toys in the holiday catalogues that arrived at the door, now they are sending parents text messages or Google Docs with links to their wish list items.

Digital Health, Marketing & Consumerism, Media Production, Parents, Video Games

My So-Called Life as Liz

If you are over twenty years old, you may not be aware of the show My Life as Liz, which is part of MTV's lineup that includes Jersey Shore and The Hills and recently began airing on MTV Canada. My Life as Liz stands out from those others shows for two reasons.

Resources, Television

Can you spot the difference?

Three well-known companies – Xerox, Starbucks, and the Gap – have recently made changes to their most public face, their logos. Each change has met with varying degrees of success, giving media educators an opportunity to look at just what makes a successful logo work.

Marketing & Consumerism

It’s Not Easy Buying Green

There's an old urban legend called “the water engine,” which tells of the discovery of a way to turn water into fuel. There are variations to the story – sometimes it's tap water, sometimes sea water; in recent versions it's specified the fuel is nonpolluting – but the ending is always the same: the invention is suppressed by the oil companies, either by buying the invention and burying it or by forcing the inventor into ruin and suicide.

Marketing & Consumerism, Resources