WEB RESOURCES on MEDIA

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Visit the following web sites for more information on how to connect your students to public life. Some of these sites provide information while others outline opportunities for getting students connected to their communities. Unless otherwise noticed, all quoted material is taken directly from the listed web sites.

National Opinion Research Center
This is a clearinghouse of current and historical poll information.
At http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/

Gallup Organization
This is the home site for a well-known polling firm. You can find information about the latest polls they are involved in.
At http://www.gallup.com/

Public Opinion Polls
This site explains how polls work and how to interpret the numbers.
At http://www.learner.org/exhibits/statistics

Pew Research Center
This organization studies the relationship between citizens, the media and politics. It provides surveys of national topics and social attitudes.
At http://www.people-press.org/

PBS: Frontline Program
The PBS web site provides teacher resources to supplement their television programs. For a very interesting program that covers the role of the media in youth culture is "Merchants of Cool."
At http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/cool/index.html

The Center for Media Literacy
Provides resources for understanding how to "see and hear" the media.
At http://www.medialit.org/ReadingRoom/keyarticles/key.html

Additional references are available at the ERIC site
AUsing Newspapers as Effective Teaching Tools@ Prepared by Nola Kortner Aiex for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communications Digest, #35.
At http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d35.html