Call for Lesson Plans: Teaching Media Quarterly

Hi Everyone,

*Teaching Media Quarterly *is an open access journal dedicated to sharing
approaches to media topics and concepts. Please consider submitting a
lesson plan to our current call, *Teaching with Media Education Foundation*.
We also have an ongoing open call for lesson plans. You can access our
journal HERE <https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/index>. Information
about the call is below. Please share with friends, colleagues, and grad
students who teach media classes!

*Call for Lesson Plans: Teaching with Media Education Foundation*

Films produced and/or distributed by the Media Education Foundation (MEF)
have become commonplace in media studies classrooms. Documentary films and
video lectures allow instructors to bring new visual and conceptual
components of the course to life in the classroom, enhancing lecture and
reading material and supporting visual or auditory learners. *Teaching
Media Quarterly* is interested in learning and sharing how instructors
teach with educational films. We want to know about how educators
contextualize specific films within their course, which readings they
assign in conjunction with films, pre- and post-viewing discussion
activities and prompts, and reflections on the successes and failures of
teaching with documentary films.

Contributors are asked to consider the following questions:

·  What activities, lectures, and discussions do you pair with a specific
MEF film?

·  How does the film relate to other media topics in your class such as
sexism, climate change, racism, culture industries, heteronormativity,
classism, media consolidation, consumerism, advertising, or network
television?

·  How do you contextualize a specific MEF film within the larger scope of
your course?

·  What readings do you assign in conjunction with your chosen MEF film?
How do you connect them through discussion, assignments, lectures, or class
activities?

·  What are common responses from students after viewing MEF films? What
are common responses, including “ah ha!” moments and topics that need more
clarity?

Please visit the MEF website (mediaed.org) for a current list of MEF films
 or see if your college or university has streaming access. Although we
would prefer submitters use films produced or distributed by MEF, we are
open to submissions that use other educational films as pedagogical tools.

*The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2018*

Best,
-- 
Megan Yahnke

Ph.D. candidate
Communication Studies
University of Minnesota
Editorial Assistant, *Communication, Culture & Critique *
Co-Editor, *Teaching Media Quarterly*

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