The Media Studies Lesson Box whiteboard teaching package includes:
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:
1. A set of GCSE PowerPoint based presentations covering all lesson topics shown below. Perfect for introducing the core content and for revision. Includes unique Lesson Box features to create a lesson to suit each class. Activity buttons reveal starter tasks, discussion points, unit recap, class activities and extension tasks. All content can be changed live without closing the presentation. Select talking avatars to give extra information and generate discussion. Keyword definitions revealed and linked to printable vocabulary worksheets. Store your lesson plans within the presentation.
 2. A linked set of Revise and Test presentations to reinforce and assess learning that now include: A narrated video summary of each topic to use prior to the test. PowerPoint based formal tests with printable question and answer sheets. Change and save to match each teaching group or student.
3. A fully licenced network or VLE version of both the above products. Perfect for anywhere learning even on mobile devices.
 plus flash tutorials, full support, full site licence. All elements can be customised (even the avatar input)

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The Content of the Media Studies Products.
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:

1. Introducing Media Studies
The units are: Introduction, Media Concepts, The Media and Media Issues. These units cover types of media, the key concepts of language, representation, institutions and audience, media history, the issues of whether the media is good or bad, media culture in the UK and changing technology.
2. Media Institutions
The units are: Institutions, Media in Society, Development and The BBC. These units include the multinationals, starting up a media institution, niche markets, TV institutions, media freedom in a democracy, media controls, stages in developing a media company, promoting image and identity with The BBC as an example.
3. The Media Language
The units are: The Message, The Language and Delivery. These units include ways to communicate, messages- written , verbal and using images, media terms and products, codes and conventions in using language, four examples of visual language are used for students to apply their own message and then these are related to denotation, connotation, narrative and for an image analysis.
4. The Audience
The units are: Relationship, Research, When and Where (Context) and Protection. These units include media relationship with the audience e.g. as consumers and the question of who controls whom and how much the media is part of our lives types of audience and the use of research to create audience segmented products including sampling and socio economic groups to plan programmes and schedules, adapting to changing audience habits and controls.
5. Representing Your Message
The units are: Versions of Reality, Representations, and Content Analysis. These units include factors that influence the media, choosing a version of reality, bias, propaganda and spin, selling ideology, stereotypes and archetypes, icons and soaps.
6. Bringing The News
The units are: Overview, Finding the News, and News Team. The units include TV News a s an anchor point, breaking news, how the news is brought to the news room, resources used, different styles of conveying news, presentation skills, deciding what is newsworthy, and the production.
7. Advertising
The units are: An Overview, Forms, Power and The Industry. The units include the purpose of advertising, who advertises, product placement, types of advertising- TV, radio, press, the target audience, costs, audience segmentation, using appropriate text, sponsorship, the power of advertising as part of mass culture, ASA controls and the role of advertising.
8. Radio
The units are: Introduction, Why Radio? Radio Stations and Changes. The units include radio history, radio waves their uses and how radio works, radio frequencies, styles of presenting, ownership, audience profiles, music radio, presenting a radio programme, the licence system, controlling output, pirate radio, BBC radio, new technology and radio news.
9. The Moving Image
The units are: Background, The industry and Creating a Film. The units include making a film, the history of the industry, Hollywood, cinema today, the film idea, finance, stars, releasing a film, ways of promotion, independent film companies, techniques to help the audience understand the film e.g. time, mood, motion, tension and emotion.
10. The Music Industry
The units are: History, The Industry and The Artists. These units include recording history, the industry in Britain, major recording companies, independent labels, finance, steps in the development of a recording artist, including promotion image and marketing and merchandising.
11. The Written Word
The units are: Background, Style, Publication and Changing Issues. These units include newspaper history, broadsheets and tabloids, techniques used, structuring a front page, newspaper styles e.g. The Sun, Daily Mail etc in reporting the news and using headlines, the process of publishing a story, designing, layout and printing and the changing nature of our newspapers.