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  How Media Influences Change

  April 13, 2012 / Blog, Truman Middle College

  We were invited to observe Jen Smith’s film class at Truman Middle College, our alternative high school partner in the North Side of Chicago. Jen has been educating students at Truman for a few years now and has developed useful techniques to engage the students in media literacy. The students at Truman Middle College explore the ways media influences everyday decisions. Jen asked the class to reflect on examples of media influencing public sentiment in recent history as far back [...]

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  Just Do It….Or Else

  January 7, 2012 / Consumerism, Documentary, News, Truman Middle College

  About nike’s history and the practices they use in order to mass produce shoes all around the world. through statistics and interviews the filmmakers explore ethics and workers rights in factories. and whose responsibility it is to stop it.

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  Sign of the Times

  October 31, 2011 / PSA, Teen Sex, Truman Middle College

  a PSA about how easy it is to spread std’s, but how hard it can be to see the signs before its to late. the characters affected by it wear signs on their backs revealing the disease which leads to the line “there aren’t always signs. protect yourselves”.

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