Frequently Asked Questions
[CRITICAL NOTE: This resource is currently unavailable for purchase through Face to Face Media, but we have archived ordering information below for reference.]
Scanning Television, Second Edition is the result of a long-standing collaboration between educators, media producers, and broadcasters, first initiated in 1996. It is produced by Face to Face Media, with over twenty media educators from Canada and the US participating in the screening and selection of the video excerpts.
51 Short Videos for Media Literacy Studies
The teacher’s guide introduces each video excerpt with a brief description and background information. The front sections of the guide provide a concise overview and definition of media literacy, and a broad assortment of media resources, websites and media literacy contacts around the world. The media educators who created this resource also helped to write the media literacy curricula used in Canadian schools.
Yes, entirely. The new edition contains 51 videos and four copies of the 96-page teaching guide, all new and different from the first edition.
The kit includes 51 short videos (ranging from 1 to 20 minutes in length, with an average length of around 6 minutes), packaged on two DVDs. The kit includes four copies of the 96-page teaching guide. DVDs will play in all zones.
These videos are cleared for classroom use. Audiovisual, public performance, circulation within a single school district and building closed-circuit use are rights granted.
Both DVD and VHS versions include closed captioning for the hearing impaired (a decoder is required). The DVDs also include English subtitles which can be toggled on or off.
If you are not completely satisfied, return the kit within 30 days for a complete refund. Your only cost will be the return postage.
Yes, the DVDs will play in all regions.
The teaching guide was written by media educators Neil Andersen, and Kathleen Tyner and John J. Pungente SJ. The videos were selected and tested with assistance from twenty additional teachers. The project was conceived and directed by John J. Pungente and produced by Gary Marcuse.
Please see the List of Videos page for information.
Both the video excerpts and the activities are intended to help your students learn to watch carefully and think critically, and thus improve their media literacy. Ontario is the first jurisdiction in North America to mandate media education, and it defines media literacy as follows:
Media literacy is concerned with the process of understanding and using the mass media. It is also concerned with helping students develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. More specifically, it is education that aims to increase students’ understanding and enjoyment of how the media work, how they produce meaning, how they are organized, and how they construct reality. Media literacy also aims to provide students with the ability to create media products. (Ontario Ministry of Education, Media Literacy Resource Guide, 1989, page 7)
Yes, the video materials are subject to copyright and are **cleared exclusively for educational use** (classroom, school district circulation). We **cannot** extend the right to broadcast these videos or use them for other purposes, such as stock footage.
- **Copyright Owner:** The video collection is copyright 2003 Face to Face Media. Print materials are copyright 2003 Harcourt Canada.
- **Trademarks:** Some trademarks, such as MediaTelevision and MuchMusic, are registered trademarks owned by CHUM Ltd.
Yes, the majority of the net proceeds from this project are directed to the non-profit Jesuit Communication Project (JCP) based in Toronto, Canada for use in media literacy education. For more information, please see: [Link to http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/].
Please see the Key Concepts page.
Contact the Media Awareness Network. View links with media literacy organizations are maintained at the University of Oregon where you will also find the home page of the Jesuit Communication Project. http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/home/index.html]
Mass Media and Popular Culture by Barry Duncan, published by Harcourt Canada and distributed in the US by the Center for Media Literacy uses the same five thematic categories to explore media literacy.
