According to their own website, http://therepresentationproject.org/:

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s film, Miss Representation, premiered to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011. In response to overwhelming public demand for ongoing education and social action in support of the message of the film, Newsom founded MissRepresentation.org in April 2011. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, MissRepresentation.org continued to highlight and challenge the limiting depictions of women in the media and our larger culture, engaging millions of people along the way.

To stay informed, follow the writer, director and producer, Jen Siebel Newsom, on Twitter.

Miss Representation Extended Trailer – YouTube.

Home – See Jane.

Gender in Media News

On Monday, October 6 we will visit the Paley Center for Media. We will meet there, at the Paley Center at 10:45. Use the Internet to answer these questions. Write the answers in a notebook. Use your own words.

1. What is the Paley Center?

2. Where are the two locations of the Paley Center?

3. What is the address of the location we will visit?

4. What are three kinds of activities they do at the Paley Center?

5. What do you think we will do at the Paley Center? (You should be able to find the answer on their website; it is related to the theme of our class.)

6. How much will it cost?

7. How will you get to the Paley Center by 10:45 on Monday morning? You can use the website www.hopstop.com.

8. What time will you leave your home to get there on time?

 

 

 

Hello Class:

The assignments are starting to pile up. This is a reminder of what we are doing these days:

• Essays – we have two essays in progress. If you are not sure when your essay is due, please ask me in person or by email.
• Reading – For Monday there are two summary pages due for “Jane Eyre”. The first one is for chapters 6,7 and 8. The second one is for chapters 9 and 10.
• Vocabulary – Next Thursday there will be a vocabulary test. The test will have five new words from week 3 and five words mixed from weeks 1 and 2.
• Grammar – Next Thursday will also be a grammar test on verb and preposition combinations. You will need to know all of the verb and preposition combinations from appendix 18, p. A-8 (admit-wonder).

 

To hear some ed tech enthusiasts tell it, online learning is sweeping aside the barriers that have in the past prevented access to education. But such pronouncements are premature. As it turns out, students often carry these barriers right along with them, from the real world into the virtual one.

Female students, for example, are poorly represented in science, technology, engineering, and math courses offered online, just as they are scarce in STEM classes conducted in physical classrooms. Demographic analyses of the students enrolled in much-hyped “massive open online courses” show the depth of the gender gap. “Circuits and Electronics,” the first MOOC developed by the online consortium of universities known as edX, had a student body that was 12 percent female, according to a study published in 2013. Anotheranalysis, posted on the Coursera blog earlier this year, found that female enrollment in the company’s courses was lowest—around 20 percent—in subjects like computer science, engineering, and mathematics. Read more at :http://anniemurphypaul.com/2014/09/do-girls-learn-differently-online/#

Click here for an excellent pronunciation tool: Color Vowel Chart.

How Does It Work?

The Color Vowel Chart represents the vowel sounds used in American English. The name of each color features the vowel sound it represents.

For example, “green” is the high front vowel /iy/, as found in the words “tree” and “leaf”. Similarly, “blue” represents the high back vowel /uw/, as found in the words “clue” and “soon.” In this way, each color serves both as a key word and a visual cue for a specific vowel sound. (From: www.colorvowelchart.org)

Welcome to class and to the class website!

Your first day assignment is to send me an email at oliver.mann888@gmail.com.

Your email to me, and every email you write to me, should have the subject, “Oliver’s Class”. I will also use that subject when I email you. This subject will make our emails easy to find.  If you want to tell me something, or ask me something, you can include that in your email.

I will use your email to create a class list. You are expected to check your email every day.

After you have sent me an email, spend some time exploring the class website and some of the links on the right side of the page. You will also want to check out the “Student Resources” page.

Research Facts

• Males outnumber females 3 to 1 in family films. In contrast, females comprise just over 50% of the population in the United States. Even more staggering is the fact that this ratio, as seen in family films, is the same as it was in 1946.
• Females are almost four times as likely as males to be shown in sexy attire. Further, females are nearly twice as likely as males to be shown with a diminutive waistline. Generally unrealistic figures are more likely to be seen on females than males.
• Females are also underrepresented behind the camera. Across 1,565 content creators, only 7% of directors, 13% of writers, and 20% of producers are female. This translates to 4.8 males working behind-the-scenes to every one female.
• From 2006 to 2009, not one female character was depicted in G-rated family films in the field of medical science, as a business leader, in law, or politics. In these films, 80.5% of all working characters are male and 19.5% are female, which is a contrast to real world statistics, where women comprise 50% of the workforce.

All facts are supported by research conducted by Stacy Smith, Ph.D. at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

National Women’s History Project.

The National Women’s History Project, founded in 1980, is an educational nonprofit organization. Our mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and 
educational materials 
and programs.