CLASS 2

Multimedia English

Course Outline Review

In this course you will study: Pop Culture - it’s a big world out there, and you should enjoy it. Messaging from different types of media. How to use the internet to find useful information How to use online software to create different types of media How to appropriately use social networks and protect your privacy

After taking this course, you should be able to: Analyze different types of messaging from mass media Find information quickly and effectively Use online software to collect information and create content Use different kinds of social networks appropriately

Let’s Review:

Top 5 on the Pop Music charts (billboard.com)Online acronymsMalwarePhishingSocial Network HackingGoogle image searching to check FB friendsAdvertising - the interesting character

Our class website

media.jadekite.comRegister for the website!Don’t forget to open your email for the link.Log in. Go to the “Hello There” blog post, and tell us your English name and student number.If you made a comment last week, cool. Please help the your classmates so we can do this quickly!

We need pictures for your avatar.

For social media like blogs and Twitter, you might not always want to have an actual picture of yourself.

For our class website and Twitter, I would like you to use one of these avatar creators: http://www.doppelme.com http://mybluerobot.com/create-your-own-avatar/ http://www.avachara.com Make your avatar and upload it to the site!

2. At the bottom of your profile page, click this button

5. Click here to save

3. Choose your saved avatar.

1. Click your username and then “Edit My Profile”

4. Click “Open”

What did you learn last week?

Let’s check! Go to “What Have You Learned?” Click on “Review of week 1”You can help, but you have to talk IN ENGLISH!Finish early? Take the “Ed Sheeran” music review.

Acronyms

Chat acronyms

411 -

BFF -

DL -

FYI -

GTG -

HTH -

IDK -

JK -

Acronyms

Chat acronyms411 - Information (I’ll give you the 411 on that boy…)

BFF - Best Friends Forever (We’re BFFs!)

DL - DownLoad (I DL’d the latest 白冰冰 video yesterday)

FYI - For Your Information (FYI, I’m from Puli!)

GTG - Got To Go (Class is over - GTG!)

HTH - Hope That Helps (I’ll call the teacher for you, HTH)

IDK - I Don’t Know (What’s a meme? IDK)

JK - Just Kidding ( I love you… JK! JK! JK!)

Acronyms

Chat acronyms411 - Information (I’ll give you the 411 on that boy…)

BFF - Best Friends Forever (We’re BFFs!)

DL - DownLoad (I DL’d the latest 白冰冰 video yesterday)

FYI - For Your Information (FYI, I’m from Puli!)

GTG - Got To Go (Class is over - GTG!)

HTH - Hope That Helps (I’ll call the teacher for you, HTH)

IDK - I Don’t Know (What’s a meme? IDK)

JK - Just Kidding ( I love you… JK! JK! JK!)

Pop Culture? Country Music!

Florida Georgia Line is currently one of the most popular acts in country music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nY06Pt8Qw

Pop Culture? Country Music!

Luke Bryan is the son of a peanut farmer. He has been performing since 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLmNaCgjkYQ

Pop Culture? Country Music!

Blake Shelton has been a country music star since 2001. Each of his albums have gone “gold”, selling at least 500,000 copies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G91KZ56mNbw

Pop Culture? Country Music!

Thomas Rhett is the son of a well-known country music writer, Rhett Atkins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPNDK46QiRM

Pop Culture? Country Music!

Sam Hunt is becoming very popular in Country Music for his mix of “White Man Rap” and country style music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evqvefc4fqM

What happened last week?

Well, the biggest news online was about this dress:

What happened last week?

This all started when a woman posted the picture on Tumblr, asking people to tell her what color the dress was:

http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and

Well, the world went crazy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2971409/What-color-dress-White-gold-blue-black.html

Let’s join Twitter

Why Twitter?

What can you learn?

Twitter is all over the Internet and more and more English learners are using Twitter to practice English.

Why use Twitter?

Twitter's 140 character limit lets you learn in small piecesYou can discover information about any topic, especially pop culture.Twitter is really easy to use.You can use Twitter to ask questions and get advice from your followers.

Meme of the Week

• Last week we talked about “The interesting Character” in advertising.

• Here he is:

Meme of the Week

I don’t always drink beer, but when I do,

I drink Dos Equis.

Meme

This very successful ad has become a meme for people to talk about stupid or great things that they do:

More

PERSONIFICATION

Advertising Technique B

Personification

Personification means to apply human feelings or looks to something that isn’t human.

source; http://www.adcracker.com/

Personification

Personification makes a product seem like a person.

People can understand and relate to things that act human.

I’m a Mac

Lamp

Mini wheats

source; http://www.adcracker.com/

Homework:

Make sure you have uploaded an avatar to this website.

Recommend a website for “Sites We Like” and write a short description of why you like it. Add it to the comments section of the Sites We Like webpage.

Finish signing up for Twitter. Upload your avatar Follow at least 30 classmates and your teacher

(mergemacpherson) Follow 5 famous people Tweet 2 times in the next week.