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1: Panzani Pasta Advertisement
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In The Rhetoric of the Image, Roland Barthes semiotically analysed a Panzani pasta advertisement to reveal how ideology is transmitted through imagery. Is Barthes’ approach as effective today? Conduct your own semiotic analysis of a contemporary advertisement to explain why or why not.
Your analysis
(1) explore how the image/text functions to produce its meanings;
(2) demonstrate your engagement with ideas related to semiotic and post -semiotic theory
(3) be informed by reference material appropriate to that area.
– The critical terms from Week 3 and from the first year courses in Visual Culture and the Avant-Gardes will be especially useful. You MUST use some specialist terms – myth, connotation, signifier, for example – to anchor your analysis to appropriate scholarly sources.
– Pay attention to what the advertisement hides in the construction of its fantasy.
– Be sure to define your terms in the process of applying them. Consider the context of the advertisement and the impact of factors such as gender, sexuality, class, race and age on the overall effect of the message.
2: Design Teaching Tools
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Instructional Problem –
Standard Three students cannot solve the area of an irregular shape because they do not know/understand how to find the area of basic shapes. At the end of this unit, this instruction will enable them to know how to find the area of basic regular shapes and irregular shapes.
1) Design Teaching Tools using Word Processors and Powerpoint under Module 4 which is Productivity Tools. Justify why Powerpoint and Word Processors were used.
2) Design Two Teaching tools using any two from the categories under Software Support Tools in the Module 5 listing from the document Course Outline – Tech6009. Justify.
3) Design Two Teaching Support tools using any two elements listed under Module 6 – Instructional Software ( From the course outline attachment.) Justify.
4) Explain how classroom technologies discussed in the course will be used to deliver the lessons.
3: An educational guidance program to decrease incidence of obesity among children
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