Media Literacy Campaign is Love

Last semester our professor handed us a job to conduct a media literacy campaign at Sta. Anastacia Elementary School. At first I was so anxious about it, because in the first place I really don't know what to do, I mean what we will going to do next after we finish on planning about it.

The step on conducting the media literacy was not an easy thing to do. The things or the materials we used from the very first day of our campaign to the last are all well planned.

We have 4 weeks to  conduct the campaign. On the first week we tackled Print, we put a puppet show so that the children will be entertained while learning the importance of "Print Media". On the second week we discussed the Radio and what is it on the radio and  it's uses, we ask the students to go outside the class room to play "pass the message". On the third  week we discussed the Television and its importance and the "MTRCB" guidlines on watching TV. On the last day we discussed the new media or the Internet, we asked the children if they have a "facebook" or "twitter" account  and most of them have "facebook" we discussed to the the positive effect of the internet and of course the limitation. On the recognition day of our campaign we let the students play a game where they can apply all the things that they learned from the four weeks about media and the winner of the game came from the class that we are assign to. The last day was the hardest part of doing the campaign, because, somehow we became attached to the kids, we became friends instantly, some add us on facebook.

The campaign was an experience to be treasured forever. For this, even though we are so tired of doing the school stuff when we do the campaign every week we doesn't feel the stress that we are experiencing in school. Every problem we face was easily converted into something every time we do the campaign.