MediaStage

www.mediastage.net

KS4 (Years 10 - 11)

Media Studies & English

This product is published by Immersive Education (Tel: 01865 811000)

This is a first-rate resource, not only for students, but for teachers of Media Studies. It is packed with features which will make it attractive to students of all abilities and enable them to work individually or as part of a small group. The program will empower students to add a professional aspect to their practical work and supporting coursework. The quality is superb and the designers have put together an impressive range of properties to support the delivery of the GCSE syllabus. It is packed full of ideas for evaluation, including clear guidelines for teachers and explanations of exactly where the resource is suitable for AQA, WJEC and OCR coursework.

The class were able to clearly study the conventions of newspapers and examine issues of bias and audience. After a couple of lessons which taught the class how to use the title, they used one of the activities provided within the software. In this activity, they had to analyse a press conference and identify the tabloid and broadsheet reporters. Once they had done this, they were able to add to the scene by taking on the role of a reporter and asking questions appropriate to their paper's stance. They had to produce an evaluation which explained the differences between the papers and which used their press conference to provide examples. The students loved using MediaStage and it enabled them to achieve a high level of understanding.