Peter Pappas »
21 September 2012 »
In Visualizations, Web 2.0 »
Internet Archive just launched TV News Search & Borrow a searchable collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. User’s can specify search term, network and TV show. In the screenshot (above) I searched the term “47″ on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report.”
Internet Archives states “”This service is designed to help engaged citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added.” Currently 21 networks are searchable (left).
I searched for “Obama” on FOX 10 PM News (below), and found coverage of his convention speech. I could dig deeper into the broadcast to generate minute-by-minute clickable word clouds. (Click on a word and it lights up in each section of the broadcast summary). The user can create a URL to share the clip, but embedding is not available.
Tags: Colbert Report, Daily Show, Information landscape, Internet Archive, Jon Stewart, Media Studies, Obama, Stephen Colbert
Peter Pappas »
09 April 2009 »
In Commentary, Ed Tech, Literacy, Strategies, Visualizations »
When the Betamax arrived to my classroom I was in heaven! Back in the late 1970′s I started teaching a high school “Media Studies” class. (Pittsford-Sutherland HS, Rochester NY). It was one semester, social studies elective that examined the impact of media on society (mainly TV – and all very McLuhan).
Duane Sherwood and I were inspired by early TV pioneer, Ernie Kovacs to shoot this 1 minute video. I used it after my first few introductory lessons. That day, instead of their teacher, my students found a TV / recorder in front of the class. The sign instructed them to “watch this video.”
Tags: Amusements, Duane Sherwood, Ernie Kovaks, Media Studies, Pittsford Sutherland HS, Rochester, Visual Literacy
Peter Pappas »
22 May 2007 »
In Commentary, Ed Policy »
Middle and high school students pulled out of social studies, science, art, music, and electives to make room for additional classes in remedial reading and math. I understand that literacy and numeracy are necessary foundations, but shouldn’t they be imbedded into content of the very courses that are being cut?
Tags: Curriculum, Innovation, Media Studies, Music, Rochester, Routine skills, Science, Writing
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