Familiarise yourself with the course site and course guide.

• Dates: Independent study before starting the course.
• Resources:
  1. About LiDA104
  2. Start here
  3. Course guide
• Key activities:
  1. Complete the OERu new participant survey (optional)
  2. Complete the 5 things you should do before starting the course

Familiarise yourself with the course site and establish your personal learning environment.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Learning materials:
  1. Start here.
  2. Establish a personal learning environment.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Complete the OERu new participant survey (optional).
  3. Establish your course blog and declare yourself to the group.

Define media literacy and critically analyse a media release.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Learning materials:
  1. Introduction to media literacy
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Participate in a spot poll and share thoughts on what media literacy means to you
  3. Research and define media literacy from different perspectives
  4. Complete the evaluate a press release challenge
  5. Complete the Introduction to media literacy quiz

Analyse how the medium and publisher influences the message in mass media.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Learning materials:
  1. Mass media
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Reflect on the roles and influence of different media and the meaning of the “medium is the message”
  3. Reflect on the concept of manufacturing consent and what it means in the age of the Internet
  4. Reflect on how ideology of race, gender and class is conveyed in the media
  5. Consider the implications of social media and the internet influences popular culture and society
  6. Consider the implications of fake news in a post-truth era
  7. Complete the topical news challenge
  8. Complete the Mass media quiz

Apply critical media literacies to assess, analyse, and evaluate the reliability of reporting of information on the web

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 3 days)
• Learning materials:
  1. Web literacy for online fact-checking
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Apply the four moves for online fact-checking:
     • Look for previous work
     • Go upstream
     • Read laterally
     • Circle back
  3. Review technology specific features and tools.
  4. Complete the fact-checking challenge
  5. Complete the Web literacy quiz

Develop digital skills to create media for visual and multimodal presentation in support of learning.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 4 days)
• Learning materials:
  1. Create media
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Generate a diagram by remixing openly licensed scalable vector graphics resources for use in your multimodal presentation
  3. Produce an animated GIF from a sequence of static image file frames
  4. Generate an HTML slideshow
  5. Record and mix audio
  6. Commence work on assignment to produce multimodal presentation
  7. Complete the Create media quiz