The Grammar Game: Does this make me a filmmaker?

While it isn't the coolest or most appealing video ever made, I learned something. Now, you can, too. Write like you know what you said. My new favorite line. Ever.

Seriously, this is a quick lesson on how to correctly use its, it's, their, they're, your, and you're in your writing that you're doing for people.

Updated at 6:25 p.m. for quality control, and your viewing pleasure.
(Translation: I completed some edits and uploaded this as a YouTube file.)

Marilyn Monroe: Iconic America

 

Abby, Hannah, and I worked on a photo analysis project together on Marilyn Monroe. Similar to our previous project on Frosted Mini Wheats, we analyze the message sent by this image and the aspects that made it an iconic image of Marilyn. We discuss various elements of the photograph, such as color, position, angle, and the subjects (Marilyn and the dress). A separate page offers additional details on Marilyn's iconic status. Enjoy the classroom applications we offer for high school students. Be sure to leave comments to let us know how we can improve the project.

Frosted Mini Wheats

Enjoy another project from ENGL 7741. This time we analyzed the product packaging of Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats with a cross-promotion for The Amazing Spider-Man movie scheduled for release next week. On our partner blog, we give an overview of visual and media literacy, an analysis of the packaging, classroom applications, and some interesting links for further edutainment. Make sure you check out Frosted Mini Wheats Little Bites: Why Do We Love Them? This is a joint project with Hannah and Abby.

Photoshop: Fact or Fallacy?

I know it sounds crazy, but we were assigned a pretty cool project. The premise was to take a video clip that you wouldn't expect as an obvious choice in an English education classroom. Once you chose a clip, you created a lesson (an ELA lesson) related to that "random" clip. Caitlin and I worked pretty hard on this, and we are pleased with the finished product. Check it out and leave us some feedback. We would love to improve it for future use. Feel free to borrow what might work for you.

Here is the cool project that Caitlin and I did for ENGL7741 at KSU.