Blog feedback and learner response

WWW: This is an odd blog – there’s clearly potential here but also lots missing which is disappointing. You show an eye for analysis and connotation in the reception theory work and the genre post is pretty comprehensive (more on that below). The best bit on genre is your own (unfinished) analysis at the bottom of the post – you clearly have engaged with brilliant TV texts (The Wire, Top Boy, Narcos… this is a great track record for Media).

EBI: There are several major issues to address here. Firstly, you are missing key aspects of the work: the media consumption audit is missing entirely (https://mediamacguffin12.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/introduction-to-media-media-consumption.html) and the Reading an image tasks aren’t there. The Reception theory tasks are there but are more like a general connotational analysis rather than a focus on preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings. Finally, your semiotics work contains pretty much nothing at all – just some images with none of the tasks completed. In total, this is quite a significant amount of missing work – and if we’re honest a lot of the work on your blog (prior to the genre piece) could have been covered in lesson time. Are you putting in five hours’ a week of homework in Media? You need to be if you want a top grade.

 LR: Update your blog to make sure all missing work is completed and 100% your own writing. Then, reflect on your work in A Level Media so far. What has gone wrong in terms of completing work and organisation? How will you learn from these mistakes to get the year back on track? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? 



LR: I have allowed deadlines to get on top of me, leaving work till the last minute meaning that work has become incomplete. Also joining the course late meant that I needed to do a lot more work in order to catch up. I need to complete all the work in order to be back on track with nothing left to work on to make homework life easier for myself. I need to develop organisation and timing in order to to do the course at a high standard.

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