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TV Turn Off Week is from April 24th to 30th, 2006. Here are some resources to prepare your students, from posters for beginners, to conferences for advanced students.
All these documents can also be used at any time of the year, to try and counter-balance the influence of television on our students…
What is TV Turn Off Week?
Here are the sites who support the action. You will find lots of articles and material to support the action and inform the students. There are also lots of thought-provoking material, to start a discussion in class.
Adbusters :
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/
White Dot :
http://www.whitedot.org/issue/fix_tvturnoffweek.asp
Kill your TV :
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/
TV Turn Off network :
http://www.tvturnoff.org/
TV-B-Gone ( a mock site for a turn off TV remote control, in the style of the 60s) :
http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php
Go Kids :
http://www.gokid.org/html2/tvoff04.htm
Quiz
are you a TV addict?
http://www.savannahnow.com/features/turnofftvweek/tvaddictquiz.html
Posters
http://www.tvturnoff.org/images/2006 poster copy.jpg
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/pdf/bw_full.pdf
(black and white)
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/pdf/CLR_poster.pdf
(color)
http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_story.asp?slug=turnoffposters
( four posters, same image, different catch phrases)
http://www.whitedot.org/images/redmouth.gif
(logo, gif animé)
http://www.mediaed.org/handouts/pdfs/10ReasonsPoster.pdf
(10 reasons why media education matters)
http://www.mediaed.org/handouts/pdfs/Missing-poster02.pdf (
what are you missing?)
Tips and advices, suggestions of activities
…to face this terrible week!
http://www.savannahnow.com/features/turnofftvweek/about.shtml#top
http://fun.familyeducation.com/television/family-time/32940.html
http://www.tvturnoff.org/action.htm
http://fatherhood.about.com/od/activities/a/turnofftv.htm
Facts, figures and statistics
http://www.tvturnoff.org/factsheets.htm
Booklets
TV is hazardous for your life (two pages, easy ):
http://www.tvturnoff.org/images/facts&figs/factsheets/Hazardous.pdf
leaflet from Media Education Foundation ( 2 p, intermediates)
http://www.mediaed.org/handouts/pdfs/TVTurnoffWeekHandout.pdf
TV spots
From Adbusters :
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/#
if you can find it, the beginning of the serie « dream on » is also very efficient.
Conference and guides for advanced students
*** Killing us softly 3 : listen to this fascinating conference (with images) about how we are influenced by ads.
information on the tape :
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderAndDiversity/KillingUsSoftly3
a long preview, enough to work from :
http://207.234.145.91:8080/ramgen/mef/mediaed.org/video/previews/media_kus3.rm
plus a study guide handout
http://www.mediaed.org/studyguides/pdf/KUS3handout.pdf
** deconstructing an advert ( a fascinating and useful analysis : try it on the sink or think ad from Berlitz, and see what you get…)
http://www.mediaed.org/handouts/pdfs/DeconstructVideoAd.pdf
( 3 page desconstructing)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6077326441742307086
(the sink or think ad)
and lots of other handouts and conference transcripts for advanced students:
http://www.mediaed.org/index_html/handouts
