May 2011
64 posts
The 2011 Guardian Music Power 100 →
guardian.co.uk
Who are the people exercising the greatest influence over the UK’s listening habits right now?
@bcotmedia on twitter →
twitter.com
Hello you,
As many of you know, I am experimenting to see if it twitter is a useful tool for bcotmedia students next academic year.
If you use twitter please follow @bcotmedia so we can determine whether or not it is worthwhile.
FYI - I will not ’follow’ you back as a respect of student privacy, and because the only purpose of the @bcotmedia account is to enhance your learning by making lectures more fun and relevant to your interests.
That is all.
Scott
Play
40 most viewed youtube music videos ever →
nme.com
NME’s run-down of the most watched music videos of all time. Who is the winner: Gaga? Bieber? Jonas Brothers?
L2 Creative Media: end-of-year trip →
surveymonkey.com
My dear Tutees, what would you like to do?
Mediaknowall →
mediaknowall.com
Excellent website for Media students.
ND Interactive Media (Year 2) Half-term workshop
Vikki has kindly agreed to come in to help ND Interactive Media (Year 2) students on Thursday 2nd June.
Lecturer availability throughout half-term for all media courses is as follows:
- MONDAY - closed for Bank Holiday
- TUESDAY - Scott in 08:00-14:00 (S220) for all Media courses
- WEDNESDAY - Scott in 08:00-14:00 (S220) for all Media courses
- THURSDAY - Vikki in 10:00-16:00 (F609) for ND Media (Year 2)
- FRIDAY - Lecturers unavailable (unless you request, I will be working from home)
Joe V James →
surveymonkey.com
It seems that there is a bit of a problem in L3 Creative Media (Year One).
During their lessons James and Joe’s love/ hate relationship has been distracting other students from getting their work complete.
I want to thank Joe and James for being such good sports and allowing the class to conduct research into the problem for Unit 3: Research Techniques.
“Who ever controls the media, controls the mind”
—Jim Morrison
Half-term workshops
Please note that I will be in college on Tuesday 31st May and Wednesday 1st June (08:00-14:00) to help you get the grades you want in S220.
Guardian Student Media Awards 2011 →
guardian.co.uk
The Guardian Student Media Awards 2011 has now launched! If you are a NUS card holding student and you want to break into the media why not enter and take the first step in launching a successful career.
Listen
Film Weekly podcast (The Guardian)
Subscribe via iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/film-weekly/id181371817
WORKSHOP REMINDER
Please do not leave it too late to enhance your current grades.
I am running workshops in S220 at the following times:
- Monday 12:15 - 13:15
- Tuesday 12:15 - 13:15 and 17:15 - 19:00
- Wednesday 14:00 - 17:00
- Thursday 12:15 - 13:15 and 17:15 - 19:00
- Friday 12:15 - 13:15
Please come along if you need to.
Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker is probably the most interesting media critic/ presenter/ journalist we have right now, and has an articulate and satirical opinion on all the topics we cover in each Unit - I heartily suggest you have a look at some of his work:
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT HE DOES USE THE ODD SWEAR WORD BUT AS WE ARE ALL OVER 16 (AND THE LINKS BELOW HAVE ALL BEEN PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS OR SCREENED BEFORE THE WATERSHED) - I THINK WE ARE OKAY.
Here is a collection of links to his TV shows:
- ‘How to report the news’ from ‘Newswipe’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI (Contains some swearing - but i reckon you can handle it)
- ‘Aspirational TV’ from ‘Screenwipe’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw (Again, a bit of swearing - probably best to not watch it unless you have headphones on)
- Introduction to the history of video games from ’Gameswipe’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIb8JdoWF00 (he behaves himself in this one)
Here is his blog:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker
You can follow him on twitter here:
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
—Aristotle
MEDIA MAGAZINE - BCOT account →
englishandmedia.co.uk
username - mediamagazine8 password - w459k2
I Like this site scott, its nice and friendly and easy to navigate. i think Tumblr should deffinatly be Boodles replacement. =] Also i would like to get involved in your project for Nik Dawson... Maybe Editing?
Thanks for the feedback.
I will speak to you about helping me to edit the video nearer the time.
Scott
