Mass Media 3 | The Selection and Presentation of News

Following hot on the heels of Defining and Researching the Media and The Ownership and Control Debate comes a new set of notes looking at

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Mass Media 2 | The Ownership and Control Debate

Another set of Notes in the Mass Media series (following the initial Defining and Researching the Media set) that fell-victim to a dispute between the

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Mass Media 1 | Defining and Researching

Kicking my heels between edits I thought I might dig-out some old Notes (they were originally written around 5 years ago for a professional publishing

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Graphic Organisers: The 5 Points of the Star

A previous post outlined the basic ideas underpinning the graphic organiser, introduced an example of the genre (the Frayer Model) and teased the possibility of

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Graphic Organisers

I recently stumbled across the notion of graphic organisers while rummaging around on Pinterest, although it’s probably an idea most teachers will have come across

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Left Realism

In an earlier post I supplemented a PowerPoint visualisation of Left Realism’s “three-cornered approach” to understanding crime and deviance with a more-detailed explanation of how

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Super Sites for Time-Starved Teachers No.2

Free AQA Sociology Course Handbook Creating a Course Handbook for your students has probably never been easier: the software’s freely available (in some cases, literally

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