MIL

• Media is the method in how something is communicated. 
• Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication.
• Access. What kind of content are you absorbing and how did you get to it? 
• Analyze. Do you make sense of its messages?
• Evaluate. Are you aware that each message is created by someone with their own goals and opinions?
• Create. What is the media creator’s responsibility to those who view it?
• Act. What do you do with the information?
• Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.
• Technology Literacy is the ability of an individual, either working independently or with others, to responsibly, appropriately, and effectively use technological tools. Using these tools an individual can access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information. 
• Pre-Industrial Age where people discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. 
• Industrial Age.  People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press)
• Electronic Age. The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. 
• Information Age. The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. 
• Media Messages - The values and ideas that are promoted.
• Media Affects - The influences and consequences on the audience.
• Cuneiform Scripts - earliest writing system by the Sumerian clan.
• Cunei - latin word for signs.
• Cave paintings - type of parietal art found on the

  wall or ceilings of caves. They teach their children how to hunt through

  this.
• Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia - It is used as a writing medium for cuneiform scripts.
• Papyrus in Egypt - Connect to life and death. Involves about death in Egypt.
• Acta Diurna in Rome - Used for announcement or important news. They can be carved on stone, metal or written in paper. Functioned like an early newspaper in the Roman citizenry.
• Dibao in China - A type of publication issued by central and local governments in Imperial China. Palace reports or imperial bulletins. Used as media for regulation and circulation of government’s official reports and announcements to masses.
• Printing Press using Wood Blocks - A technique for printing text,

  images, or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China.
• Codex in the Mayan Region - According to archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni, the codices were used to set dates for rituals, often by linking them to astronomical events. The pages of the codices usually depict a deity and include a series of glyphs describing what the deity is doing. Astronomical events, horoscope
• Printing Press for Mass Production - Steam powered printing press in America.

  • Created by Richard M. Hoe

  • Millions of copies of page in a

  single day.
• Newspaper, The London Gazette - originally known as "The Oxford Gazette" official journals of record of the British government

  • created to avoid plague.

  • The king decided to create

  newspaper.
• Typewriter - invented in 1802 by italian inventor

  Agostino Fantoni.
• Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the Telephone

  • Successfully secured the rights to

  discovery.

  • His partner is Thomas Watson.
• Zoopraxiscope - device for displaying moving images.

  Edward Muybridge used the machine as projector.
• Commercial Motion Picture - invented by Lumiere Brothers

  (French Manufacturer)

  • Auguste and Louis Lumiere

  • Best known for cinematography motion films

  • One of the earliest film makers
• Telegraph - Sends information by making and

  breaking electrical connection

  • Uses morse code
• Punch Cards

  • Invented by Joseph Marie

  Jacquard

  • Represents computer data and

  instructions.
• Transistor Radio - a radio receiver which uses transistors to amplify the sound.
• Television - invented by John Logie Baird and Philo Taylor Fransworth
• Charles Babbage – Father of Computer
• EDSAC – Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, Computer calculation
• UNIVAC – Universal Automatic Computer I
• Mainframe Computers – I.E IBM 704

  • Only computer that can

  handle complex math
• Personal Computers – I.E HEWLETT PACKARD 9100A (1968), APPLE 1 (1976)

  • Made computer accessible to

  individuals
• OHP – Overhead Projector