https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media Gender and Communication, Workshops, Apps, Links and More en-us 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC 2026-01-11 15:19:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/359209016/4e048ce09a5bc0cb7e08d972c73f45be/Screen_Shot_2019_02_24_at_11_12_14_AM.png celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431629 Overview: To make students aware of the dangers of gender stereotyping and the media's role in perpetuating gender stereotypes.]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431629 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431630 In this lesson students look at how gender stereotyping may discourage young women from becoming involve in politics. Students begin by discussing what is meant by the term "politics" and "political action". With those definitions in mind, they create "a portrait of a politician" based on the traits and characteristics that are needed to be a political agent. Students then deconstruct media products aimed at girls and young women in order to identify the stereotypes contained within and understand how this may raise barriers to being politically active.]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431630 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431631 TinyTap allows create fund educational games from pictures and creative ideas. It's a free game creation platform that lets parents, teachers and kids create, share and sell personalized educational games]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431631 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431632 Is a cloud-based teaching and learning platform design for connected mobile devices in the classroom to enhance the classroom experience by enabling teachers to connect students with lessons plans and learning media on mobile devices. ]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431632 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431633 Educrations turns the Ipad into a recordable whitboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Create an animated lesson or add commentary to photos. With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, it is possible to broadcast ideas from anywhere.]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431633 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431634 SPARK Movement -a "girl-fueled intergenerational activist organization"- wants you to be able to look at a site and know immediately if a woman made history there or not. This project hosted on Google's mapping app Field Trip, will now let you know if you are passing by a location that witnessed some history-making moments for women.]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431634 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431635 This app helps to figure out which of the two sexes talks the most. This app keeps track of how much time each sex spends talking in common situations like meetings, conversations and even on TV. All you have to do is let the app know how many members of each sex are present, and tap a button on the screen each time a male/female starts speaking.
COMMENTS RELATED TO SYLLABUS: We will actually used this app in class discussions to assess and track the time each sex spend talking. Also, this app will be used in tasks of evaluation outside class. Each student will use a media or a common situation in her/his surrounding to track and analyze how much women are present in meetings and conversations.]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431635 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431636 FairShare is an app that helps women achieve equality in housework. This iOS and Android app wants the entire family to share household errands so that a woman isn't stuck doing them all, and has time for herself. This app also ensures that the other members of the family get time for their own interests. With FairShare, you can keep a track of who's doing what, what percentage of the overall work has been covered by whom, what's left to be done and the like.

]]> 2019-02-23 12:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334431636 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334544608 COMMENTS RELATED TO SYLLABUS: The objective of this lesson is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to cultural inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media -film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines. The lesson begins with a review of stereotypes that are associated with men and women and their possible sources -including the role of the media. Students deconstruct a series of advertisements based on gender representation and answer questions about gender stereotyping about articles they have read.]]> 2019-02-24 09:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334544608 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334546052 Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.
COMMENTS RELATED TO SYLLABUS: This publication will be used for the first lessons in classe: Week 1: Why study gender and media?; Week 2 and 3: Key concepts and approaches. ]]> 2019-02-24 09:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334546052 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334546413 Design to help answer the question: what is militant research? Let's begin by saying it's the place where academia and activism meet in the search for new ways of thinking.]]> 2019-02-24 09:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334546413 celiavara https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334546949 Building egalitarian societies is one of the priorities of modern democratic states. Mass media play a unique and important role in the shaping of a society where men and women enjoy equal rights.]]> 2019-02-24 10:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/celiavara/gender_and_media/wish/334546949