http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/tmintro.htm
Teachable Moments were intended for teachers but the examples and
information are too excellent to miss - especially the page on digital photo
changes as a means to manipulate the truth.
http://www.adbusters.org/
Some complex information about the dangers of Corporations. Good visual
ads making fun of brand names, etc. These guys are fairly radical in their
views that people should stop supporting the consumer society and buy nothing,
especially things they do not really need.
http://tourismio.com:16080/client/funny/
A select few funny commercials that may be hard to download at school depending
on the software your computer has, i.e. quicktime or winzip etc..
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/features/digital_essay.html
An essay with some examples on how pictures can be changed to change the way
people see the world.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/kids/kindex.htm
Avoid the 'Cybersense and Nonsense' links as they involve a game download
(could be difficult on school computers). Feel free to try it at home.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/kids/kidpower.htm
Excellent stories of kids who take on big corporations and government to
make changes they believe are important. What do you think?
Center for Media
Literacy Reading Room
A list of articles on various topics especially how bad T.V. affects people
http://www.medialit.org/ReadingRoom/Media&Values/media_images.html
A short article entitled: "HOW
TO EVALUATE MEDIA IMAGES OF WOMEN"
http://www.action4mediaed.org/
In the "Just the facts" section, there are some opinions and statistics
regarding T.V. and advertising that could help.
http://www.childrennow.org/
The "Children and the Media" section has information about video
games, violence, gender roles, etc.
http://www.songtitle.info/
Music is used in commercials and here is a list of songs used in commercials.
You will need REAL AUDIO to play music from the internet which again could be
a problem for some machines.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/index.html
Coke ads from the past make up these pages from the Library of Congress.
Excellent historical content!! Search all the links; I found some dead
links or maybe the Library was too busy. Keep looking.
http://www.commercialchannel.com/
A blatant piece of marketing by Philips Electronics, pretending to be a
website, it is only a platform for marketing. But the video is easy to
watch and it has a few different types of commercials that might help.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Commercials/
A large list of links to various sites. I couldn't get through it all
and many sites have Real Audio sites (which I mention again because the computer
people I talked to hate it and do not have it on their computers).
http://www.rt66.com/dthomas/70s/
Weird 70s sound files for various commercial products in a few different catagories.