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LINKS

These are a selection of sites that media educators should find useful - if you have others to suggest, please contact the website administrator.
(Also note that tertiary sites among others also maintain their own suggested links, such as the Links page for the Screen and Media Studies Dept. at the University of Waikato)

Media Literacy

• Mediascape: http://www.mediascape.ac.nz/ - a media literacy clearinghouse managed and maintained by the New Zealand Broadcasting School at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT)

Film Guides

• The Internet Movie Database USA site

Other Media Education Organisations

• Film Education UK
• Saskatchewan Media Literacy
• The Canadian Association of Media Education
• Jesuit Communication Project

New Zealand Curriculum Topics

• New Zealand Qualifications Authority  Media Studies Unit Standards This link will bring you to the Framework index.
  Click on 'Arts and Crafts' to go to site for Electronic Media and for Film and TV Units.
  OR Click on 'Social Science', then click the Social Science Studies sub-field to reach Media Studies.
• New Zealand Certificate of Education - Media Studies Achievement Standards
• Assessment Units for NCEA - Media Studies Achievement Standards Level 2 - These units are located on the Ministry of Education's Te Kete Ipurangi On-line Learning Centre site.
• The New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English

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Some Schools and Institutions Teaching Media

• Some NZ tertiary media departments
  1. Screen and Media Studies Department, at the University of Waikato
  2. Media Arts Department, at the Waikato Institute of Technology
  3. Dept. of Film Television and Media Studies (Auckland University)
  4. School of English and Media Studies (Massey University)
  5. School of English, Film and Theatre (Victoria University of Wellington)
  6. School of Fine Arts (Film) (University of Canterbury)
  7. Film and Media Studies (University of Otago)
  8. New Zealand Broadcasting School (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology)

New Zealand Media Sites

• The NZ Producers and Directors Guild
• The New Zealand Film Commission
• The New Zealand Film Archive
• The Moving Image Centre
• Media Watch - the site of the weekly National Radio programme promoting a critical media awareness. Mainly NZ media, but also overseas issues. Site can include fuller transcripts than played on air.
• New Zealand Music site - downloadable, for a small price
• Scoop - New Zealand independent news source, focusing heavily on political news

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Specific media

• Print
  1. Tearaway The popular New Zealand teenage magazine
  2. The Christchurch Press
  3. Info Tech Weekly, published by The Dominion in Wellington
  4. On Line Journalism Review site
  
  
• TV and Radio
  1. BSA Media Studies Resource - a media studies resource for secondary school teachers and students, provided on the Broadcasting Standards Authority's website
  
  
• Film and cinema
  1. A Western Genre site
  2. B Grade Monster Movies
  3. www.exposure.co.uk - Interesting British site with special effect ideas (fake blood etc), Robert Rodriguez 10 Minute Film School, Guides to Film Making etc.
  
  
• Practical media
  1. The Global Film School
  2. Computer Video Magazine. UK magazine site with user question and answer section.

General Interest Sites about and in New Zealand

• What is the Weather like Today
• The Official New Zealand Olympic Games Site

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