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A teacher for 9 years of a variety of subjects including English, Media, Psychology, IT amongst others. I aim to produce simple but effective resources that are accessible to both teachers and learners.
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A teacher for 9 years of a variety of subjects including English, Media, Psychology, IT amongst others. I aim to produce simple but effective resources that are accessible to both teachers and learners.
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Social Media
Contains all resources for an introductory 2 hour introductory lesson on the topic of Social Media. Learners begin by brainstorming key terms and concepts related to social media before comparing and contrasting different social networking site to look for common features. Finally they are introduced to some current debates and issues before discussing the digital divide. Comes with a PowerPoint presentation with 17 slides, a key terms glossary and screenshots of well-known social media sites for annotating.
Social Media - Relationships, Identity and Self
A two hour lesson exploring the topic of social media and its impact on relationships, self and identity. Learners discuss opinion statements about social media before exploring its effect on relationships by analysing statistics from a journal article. Finally, they discuss online identity and the concept of the digital footprint.
Social Media, Fake News and Opinion Forming
A 14 slide Powerpoint presentation and accompanying workbook designed to cover the topics of social media, fake news and opinion forming. Learners discuss some well-known stories in politics, define some key terms and research the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal.
News Values Lesson 1
A powerpoint that asks learners to define ‘News’ and compare their thoughts with established knowledge on the subject. Learners are then intriduced to Galtung and Ruge’s 12 news values and asked to discuss any recent examples they can think of. Comes with accompanying workbook that includes several tasks to consolidate learning.
Social Media and Language
A ready-to-go 90 minute lesson focussing on the topic of social media and its impact on language. Learners discuss some key debates associated with the topic, read an article about endangered languages and discuss prescriptivist and descriptivist approaches. Contains a 13 slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying workbook.
News Values Lesson 2
Following the introductory lesson, learners begin to apply their knowledge of New Values to contemporary examples from newspapers and online. Learners discuss what is meant by a ‘news agenda’ and try to determine the agendas of major newspapers.
Social Media and Education
A two hour lesson that covers the topic of social media and education. Learners discuss advantages and disadvantages whilst making notes in a shared online document. They then evaluate the activity and the discussion before attempting a written response to an exam style question.
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Time Management
A short Unit of Work which can be used in tutorials or personal and social development sessions to develop learners' time management skills. It covers basic theory associated with time management, stress and how to prioritise.
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Advertising
Three short lessons to introduce learners to the idea of analysing advertisements. The first and third lesson concentrate on analysis and the second lesson focusses on the representation of women in advertisements since the 1950s and encourages discussion around the topic.
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Word Processing
A Unit of work to introduce learners to the basics of word processing. Designed for adults but can be easily adapted to suit any age group. Contains worksheets intended to be shared digitally to help learners develop what they have learned and PowerPoint presentations to guide the lessons.
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GCSE Revision - Any Spec - Writing
A handful of presentations covering various aspects of GCSE revision. It focuses on written accuracy as well as descriptive and persuasive writing techniques.
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AQA GCSE English Language - Paper 1 Questions 1- 4 Practice (The Hartops)
This bundle consists of three powerpoint presentations focussing on the reading questions for the AQA English Language Paper 1 2019. They are to be used alongside the extract from ‘The Mill’ that was used in the exam. Each presentation contains straightforward and efficient approaches for answering the questions as well as a range of actvities to get learners practising.
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Introduction to psychology
Contains 7 presentations designed to introduce learners to the topic of psychology and some basic concepts. It is intended as a starting point for studying psychology and is not mapped to any specific exam specifications.
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News Values
Three lessons and an accompanying workbook covering the production of News. The unit covers Galtung and Ruge’s News Values and explores whether they are still relevant to contemporary news production.
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Social Media
A full series of resources for the teaching of Social Media as part of a Media course. The bundle contains 6 powerpoint presentations with 69 slides in total, several workbooks, worksheets and a social media glossary. The unit is aimed at level 3 adult learners but can easily be used with younger students. It is not designed with any specific exam board in mind but the topics and activities should be applicable to all media courses.