Patrick W Whalen | Center for Media and Information Literacy

BBC vs PBS: Who works better?

Patrick W Whalen — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:01:12 +0000

(Patrick Whalen) On Monday we took a trip to the BBC and had a meeting with Kevin Blacoe who is the senior adviser at BBC for policy, public affairs and communications. During our meeting with Kevin he talked about his education, previous work experience before coming to the BBC, as well as what he does under his title at the BBC. I found him to be pretty interesting especially the fact that he…

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Collingwood & Co: A successful media company

Patrick W Whalen — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:37:53 +0000

(Patrick Whalen) Today I attended a meeting with Tony Collingwood at Collingwood & Co studios. This meeting was very interesting and entertaining! Tony showed us the different aspects of what his company does and how they function. He first talked about different projects they have done and how they have come to create some very successful children’s shows. Then we got to tour the studio and see…

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CMC: Full Conference Summary

Patrick W Whalen — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 07:15:41 +0000

(Patrick Whalen) Attending The Children’s Media Conference was a very fulfilling experience. I really learned a lot from attending the workshop and various different sessions and speeches. They all helped to also give me a new insight into children’s media and different outlooks on different forms of media in the children’s world today. Each session was unique from the other yet some discussed…

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CMC: Day 3: “Weird Science”

Patrick W Whalen — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:03:31 +0000

(Patrick Whelan) This morning I attended a session called “Weird Science” with speakers Jaqueline Harding and David Kleeman. I thought this session was pretty cool and interesting. The main focus was the studying of human reactions to different elements. It started off with David Kleeman talking about his profession in which he gathers research of human reaction by sensors attached to the subject…

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CMC session: Research on media for children

Patrick W Whalen — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:24:14 +0000

Today I attended a session with three different topics of “How Early Adopters Find and Share New Entertainment”, “The End of Live TV for Children?” and “Bad Games + Bad Children = Good Business?”. These were research based sessions which I found to be very informative and all three were highly intriguing. There were many different aspects of this session that I found to be new knowledge as well as…

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CMC session: “Second Screen”

Patrick W Whalen — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:22:51 +0000

One session that I attended today was “Second Screen: Changing the way we watch TV”. This session was devoted to different uses of the second screen, how kids are using it today and what we could do with second screens in the future. I had mixed feelings about this session for a number of different reasons. One concern I had was the current use of the second screen by children today.

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CMC workshop- Music and Song

Patrick W Whalen — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:31:25 +0000

This morning I attended the “Music and Song” workshop hosted by Ann Miller, Helen Stroud, and Steve Berman. In this workshop we were split into groups and then we circulated through the three hosts every 45 minutes. Ann had a PowerPoint presentation where she went over all of the rights, royalties and responsibilities within the world of children’s media. Many of the terms she defined with…

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