A faculty needs to constantly upgrade and update himself in order to stay and sound relevant in the ever evolving competitive digital world. The students' expectations have risen manifold times in the past years and in order to cater to the growing intellectual demands of the taught, the teacher must also walk in-step with the changing scenarios. So, be a part of the Faculty Development Program at the Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies on 16 January and get an edge in your teaching career.
Friday, 1 January 2016
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM @DGMC Mumbai
A faculty needs to constantly upgrade and update himself in order to stay and sound relevant in the ever evolving competitive digital world. The students' expectations have risen manifold times in the past years and in order to cater to the growing intellectual demands of the taught, the teacher must also walk in-step with the changing scenarios. So, be a part of the Faculty Development Program at the Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies on 16 January and get an edge in your teaching career.
Friday, 25 December 2015
Changing Trends of Teaching -Learning
What
is the role of a teacher in the present scenario? This is the question I often ask
myself as I retrospect my teaching journey.
Over
the years the role of a teacher has changed to a great extent. It has become very
challenging as we are in an era of information explosion. The profile of students today is that of a sharp and updated lot. They are all digital natives and easily adapt to the
new technology.
As a result, the
role of a teacher has become that of a facilitator, who can navigate them to
their goal through this ocean of knowledge. This can be rightly illustrated by the example of the TED Talk winner Sugata Mitra. He has proved through his experiments with the underprivileged children that when the learner gets access to technology or the means of acquiring knowledge, they become quick learners.
Now
is the favourable time to motivate students for self learning. Though the wealth
of information is just a click away, yet for selecting relevant chunks, the students
require assistance of teacher. It has been a common observation that in spite of the huge reservoir of knowledge a majority of the students still shy away from exploration of such a facility on their own.
The
teacher also has to catch up with the speed of change and update herself on the
changes to be able to win confidence and trust of the students. One
of my students at #DGMC had conducted a research on how the teachers are coping
up with New Technology and the results could be very useful for all the teachers.
The research concludes that teachers who have used traditional methods for
teaching are now learning new technology and using it.
In
a nutshell, a teacher’s role as a facilitator or catalyst will always bear
significance upon the student’s all-round understanding of the subject matter
and will always be instrumental in creating leaders for tomorrow.
-Prof. Shubhangi Dharma
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Off Side
Blogs always
make me horrified. When I started my career (forced to get into it for my
pocket money rather), I was told by a well-wisher (or was she a trainer? I
cannot recall) that blogs are where authors speak their mind (bad idea,
mostly); you can be informal and do away with regulations (who said, I had
nasty experiences!). This idea itself is scary. If trains did not have a track
to go by, chances of derailing would have gone up. When you don’t have a rule
to follow, format to cope with or guidelines to look up to- you tend to get
lost. I sincerely believe that we all meet the world with a mask on where no
one can see our true self. Hence, such kind of paucity of regulations indulges
us in letting the bun loose; making you speak your mind in front of the world.
However, a lot
of you might be wondering why I am constantly pondering over the fact that my
inner self might be unveiled in the blog! That is primarily because I don’t
want my simple blog to stretch itself to the size of an epic. I will try to
keep it short and precise and rather concentrate on that one topic that I am
going to talk about. I know the name must have evoked some curiosity within the
readers (and I have been beating around the bush about why blogs scare me, my
bad!) and let me clarify it’s NOT about football (I am a crazy football lover
though). The blog is actually a story, a story about me.
Those who are
aware of the term ‘offside’ knows that in a football match a forward/midfielder
player cannot deliver an assist to another forward player (team mate) who is
already ahead of even the second defender (any defender after the keeper) of
the opposing team at the moment of loosing the ball from the assist’s feet.
Confused? Well, the bottom line is that you must not take the advantage of
being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I traveled to a new city in
order to complete my studies. I haven’t even achieved the MA degree (and to add
to the surprise, I need 5 more months yet to complete my MA) and I got the
offer from #DGMC to work as a counselor; to help students with their career
decision. I sensed the peril: staying alone in a city accelerates your growing
up process and you realize soon that pay-for-me-dad days are over. Then again,
getting a job is just the first step- I need to perform to stick to it. And frankly,
I wasn’t sure whether I’m the one who can help students out with their career
choice (just listen to the phrase: simple near the ears, scary near the
brains). So, you get the wrong time... wrong place... off side linkage?
Connecting, are you?
There was a tiny
gap of 4 days between me getting the offer letter and walking into DGMC as a
counselor. During those 4 days I had constantly questioned myself, my real
inner credibility. However, by no means should you feel that I doubted my
confidence or the selection-skills of the management- all I am trying to say is
that I was trying to reach the ‘self actualization’ phase through constant
questioning. I would love to quote Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ‘Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya’. We all move
from darkness to light; darkness of questions will always be fought with the
light of experience and confidence. That is how we learn and the fire of
comprehension emancipates a newer self within us, like a phoenix. I stood in
front of my mirror the night before I was supposed to join, and looked into my
own eyes-I just realized that you are not born anything, you impose the
designation onto yourself in the course of life. It’s all role-playing and I
was ready to play the role of a counselor, finally.
Finally on my
first day, clad in my most perfectly ironed formals (those I have been keeping
inside the darkest corner of my almirah so far), I arrived at DGMC with a
question-free mind with plethora of excitement and flacon -full of hope to
spray around the college. I have been constantly told that I gel up with new
people pretty fast (thanks to my adapting skills) and DGMC was not an exception
as well. When you like the place, the people, you also love to concentrate on
the business part naturally. I could get into the frame of my work faster than
I expected. Every time I uttered the name of the college to an aspirant, new
excitement used to fill me in. But every time I see that the student is sitting
in front of me, on the other side of the desk (where I have been, less than two
years ago), it reminds me of being on the offside. I always tell myself, I need
to be there, rightfully: no matter how much you try to score from the offside,
they are not going to be counted. So, I need to prove that I am at the right
place at the right moment: At DGMC, now.
-Madhubanti Mitra
Evolving from a Student to a Professor
Until a few months back,
roughly around six months back, I was playing the role of a student. Being a
student is always a luxury, as you are a recipient of all the knowledge
imparted in an institution and are not bound to any sort of full time responsibility.
As a student you tend to be frivolous, can engage in intellectual debate,
challenge the professor’s point of view and live a truly stimulating life. What
is more interesting is that during this phase, the practical necessities of
life- earning a living or making it big in the world, do not seem to bother the
student. Hence it gives you a free reign to cherish these few days of freedom
before you will be thrown into the real world.
Although, this freedom also comes with a few commitments and the idea of
absolute freedom seems a little ambiguous or may be unachievable to me.
But these commitments also
revolve around the same process of learning and exchange of ideas and thoughts.
Being in a university with a vibrant cultural atmosphere is all the more
invigorating and one does not feel like leaving it ever. It’s like a cozy
little cocoon where one can just spend the rest of their lives and not conform
to the reality outside. A University like the one where I studied gave a lot of
room to students for critical thinking, raising questions and the most
fascinating part about it was that the line between the authority and the
students seemed to blur. The professors were approachable and ready to help at
any point, would converse with students just as any other person of our age
would. But I guess one cannot stay in a
cocoon all their lives as it can be delusional. Well, a lot of them do but I
wasn’t that fortunate enough to stay back and continue due to some practical
reasons. So coping with the world outside the university and returning to the so
-called ‘real’ world was a little challenging. To add to it I was faced with
what most people of my generation go through is utter confusion- what would be
my next step after graduating from the university? The idea of teaching was on
my mind but I wasn’t confident about completely plunging into it.
With the
thought of teaching a lot of anxieties and fears seeped in. I was
inexperienced, I was a student myself and how Iwould deal with a class full of
60-70 students and engage them for 2- 3 hours was a constant concern for me. It
seemed quite a daunting task. Being a part of a Jesuit school as a kid and then
later moving into a typical college in my high school years, I was aware about
the teaching methods I wouldn’t adopt. But again, looking back at some of my
professors in undergraduate years and then at the Masters level, I had thought
of a lot of interesting ways to approach the class, drawing from my memory and
personal experiences. And that’s it. I was fortunate enough to be given a
chance for a demo lecture at DGMC. I was very apprehensive about delivering a
class on French New Wave cinema, though a lot of labour had gone into preparing
for it but the fear of keeping the class engaged for three hours was constantly
looming over my head. And eventually, when the moment arrived, I just started
speaking and everything started flowing organically and all my apprehensions were
resolved. The first half of the lecture was a little taxing for students
mentally as the nature of the topic discussed was primarily theoretical. In the
latter half, there were screenings of clips from various films and all that was
discussed in the first half converged in the minds of the students.I felt the
response was favourable and I heaved a sigh of relief gauging from the
students’ reaction. I also realized the students are very enthusiastic and
sensitive in learning about different cultures and their cinematic practices,
provided it is presented in the right manner.
There are high chances of them scoffing,
sniggering, if something explicit appears on screen but the real task for
the professor lies in how to communicate these ideas that may be unsettling or
not openly discussed in our cultural and academic institutions. The satisfaction one feels in elucidating or debating about these
issues and in the art of teaching is indeed ecstatic.
After all, we are dealing
with something that is invariably a part of our lives, and has shaped our
experiences, emotions and imagination- Cinema.
I believe we cannot teach cinema, but at least we can inculcate the idea
of reading cinema critically and deconstruct its nuances to broaden our
understanding of this powerful medium. That will be my goal and intention as a faculty
in this institution…
-Dinesh Khemani
-Dinesh Khemani
Why Do You Need Great Content To Connect?
Most of us still recall a few good childhood
stories. Whether our teachers, parents
or friends told us, one thing was clear, they fired our imaginations and
provided great satisfaction. I know it was true for me. Like a ripping song,
stories are mesmerizing because they touch us in lasting ways. “Who cares about
great content ? Your customers do !And you know what ? People never outgrow
their love of good stories.Over the past few years, marketers and public
relations professionals were caught up in over-stuffing their news with
keywords to increase search engine optimization, perhaps losing sight of what
was important:the real news. Moreover loosing target audience to the millions
of online search results, or allow them to click away because the content didn’t
engage.Google's changes in search engine optimization have enforced marketers
to re-think how they present their news.
Content is no longer confined to the written page in
the digital era. It is outspreadacross web and mobile, taking the appearance of
words, videos, podcasts, webinars, widgets, and blog posts, and empowering
people everywhere to voice their opinions. Content tells the story of your
products or services and propels your brand into the hearts and minds of your
prospectus, customers, and others. Well-crafted story telling has always been of
great importance and even more so today with Digitalization, but it means
nothing if it’s not written well. Content rules the web, we all are publishers
today. All content isn’t suitable for a global audience. Producing content is
easy. Producing effective content is not easy to do, and most brands are
failing at it (miserably).The trick is to make your content more about the
value it provides and less about the marketing and sales of your products and
services, rather finding a way to tell a story with your products, services,
and company as a whole. What are the values that drive your business ? How can
you connect to your target market in emotionally enriching, mutually beneficial
ways ?alongside you need to be empathic with the end reader in mind.
With all the “noise” and interruption, you need a
way to break through the clutter, a way that will impact people and help them
understand where you are coming from. You need a way to help customers
appreciate the authentic space that you live in within your industry, to
present your content in a way that will absorb them and get them to want more.
In the business environment, and especially with content marketing, you should
embrace and nurture storytelling. When you do, your audience will like to
engage intellectually and emotionally, and feel they are a part of your story. And
because you took the time to connect with them in a unique and sincere way, the
way that they remember from stories of long ago, they will find ways to connect
with you in meaningful, long-lasting ways.
Why are executives like Mark Zuckerberg (Co-founder
and CEO of the social-networking website, Facebook), Chad Hurley, Steve Chen,
and Jawed Karim (Co-founder, You Tube), Kevin Systrom (Co-founder of
Instagram), Jan Koum (CEO,Whatsapp), Drew Houston (CEO, Dropbox), Reid Hoffman
(Executive Chairman, Linkedin), Nick Woodman (CEO, GoPro),ChetanBhagat
(Writer), Sachin Bansal and BinnyBansal (Founders, Flipkart), Steve Jobs (CEO,
Apple), Bill Gates (Founder, Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon), and Jack Ma
(Founder and Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group)are so legendary ? In large part
because they are able to engage people’s emotions. Within the confines of your
digital presence, you can do the same thing, and you’ll indeed be able to
compete seamlessly in the content age. Crafting scenarios of possible future happenings,
using personal dialogues, and talking about experiences can genuinely get
people your potential customers to stand up and take notice. The how and why
and when of content are everything, to repair the fractured emotional
customer’s experience. If you don’t connect, you don’t sell, and that’s the
bottom line. Done strategically, logically, intelligently, and innovatively, content
marketing can provide grand return on investment ever.
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MMC-It’s back with a bang…
#MumbaiMediaChamps that’s MMC for the Mumbai college circuit-a
3-day action packed inter-collegiate extravaganza that has already become the
talk of the town is yet again set to raise the bar for students’ participation.
As I see it, this time around the organisers have simply unleashed their
creativity…and I am proud to be a part of it all (chuckle).
Thinking about the last year’s edition of MMC it feels so like
yesterday and I distinctly remember how the momentum actually picked up in the
final fortnight. Though the groundwork was being done from two months before
that, there wasn’t anything conclusive to show for it.
Then like in the movie 300, the general invoked
in his lieutenants a strong emotion to pull it up and gave the war cry. Being a
part of the DGMC staff, I too chipped in with my might.
Never before had I taken to the facebook phenomenon so fervently like
I did it for promoting MMC last year. I started updating the minute by minute
status of MMC and also shared it with different groups. My next bet was sending
the MMC info to other colleges all over Mumbai. I guess that must have
certainly added to the buzz):-
Another phenomenon I witnessed then-On such occasions, even the
teachers get to learn a thing or two from their pupil. And they too accept it
with an open heart. The camaraderie between the faculty and the students, the teamwork
and the drive to make it successful, has now been etched in my memory. Like
they teach in their filmmaking classes, what stays with you long after the
event gets over are the visuals. Images that bring alive the memories!
Speaking of memories-the red carpet looked simply inviting and
ignited the passions, literally! Students-participants and management committee
both cast a longing glance at it dreaming of walking on one when they make it
big someday!
The inauguration ceremony that followed was graced by well known producer
Madhav Roy Kapoor, Karl Gomes(Advertising Professional), Shailendra Singh Sodhi
(Lyricist). With them on the dais, the
occasion had acquired the aura of an international film festival. During the
next three days of MMC a total of 75 dignitaries from the glamour industry registered
their presence. Of them, notable were screenplay writer for Ramleela Siddharth
and Garima, Sangram Singh (Wrestler and Reality TV star), Feroz Khan
(Choreograoher), Ajinkya (DID), Amar
(DID) , HarshvardhanDeo (Actor), Tanya Malik (Actor), Kushal Punjabi (Actor),
SriramRaghavan (Film Maker), G. K. Desai (Producer/Actor), Harshit Chauhan
(Singer) RamiraTaneja (Singer), Monika Murthy (Actor/TV Host), Ravi Kennu
(Actor), Hemendra Bhatia (Actor/Director), Dr.DilipPotnis (Theater Actor),
ParikshitSahani (Well known Actor), Khamoshi Movie Pair Ali Fajal (Bollywood
Actor), SapnaPabbi (British Model/Actress), Divya Kumar (Singer), Aaditya
Narayanan (Singer), Clince Varghese (Musician) etc were the charms of the MMC.
Last day all MMC mob enjoyed Divya Kumar and Aaditya Narayanan singing and
dancing.
As the library in-charge, I not only got to have close encounters
with the who’s who of the media world, but also made sure they all immortalised
the time they spent here in forms of words of encouragement.
That brings us to here and now. Mumbai Media Champs is waiting for
our war cry.
-Geetanjali Wani
-Geetanjali Wani
Monday, 8 June 2015
What is Public Relations?
WHAT exactly do you
mean by public relations? Why does public relations play a significant role in
times of cut-throat competition? Every business depends on customers for sales and profits; organisations
depend on employees for productivity; industry relies on skilled professionals;
society depends on the government to provide basic utilities and so on. All
these have created a great need for relationships and communications among all
people at different levels. Times are changing. Business, trade and commerce
are becoming extremely competitive in this age of globalisation. Companies need
to have an edge that makes them stand out from the crowd. For this, it becomes
necessary to know and understand how the world of public relations functions
revolves. Simply put, public relations or PR is all about creating a two-way
communication between an organisation and target groups. It aims to enhance
corporate image and reputation, resolves conflicts of interest, seeks common
areas of mutual interest and establishes complete understanding based on truth
and knowledge.
Definition of public relations
PR has been defined
differently by management scholars and experts. According to Sam Black, a
British PR practitioner in his book Practical Public Relations, The purpose of
Public relations is to establish a two way communication to resolve conflicts
of interests and to establish understanding based on truth, knowledge and full
information. In the words of Edward Bernays, Public relations is an attempt by
information, persuasion and adjustment to engineer public support for an
activity, cause, movement or institution.
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015
The Way of the Animator
Introduction
Before we get into the how and what part, consider this statement by Walt Disney : 'I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.' There has to be a certain amount of truth in that statement. That little mouse -- who first appeared in October 1928 -- has inspired generations of children and adults, made millions giggle like teenagers, and ensured earnings of a whole lot of money by some people.
Before we get into the how and what part, consider this statement by Walt Disney : 'I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.' There has to be a certain amount of truth in that statement. That little mouse -- who first appeared in October 1928 -- has inspired generations of children and adults, made millions giggle like teenagers, and ensured earnings of a whole lot of money by some people.
Animation is fast becoming a hugely interesting
way to make a living. And, considering the interest now shown by
biggies like Walt Disney and Warner Bros in Indian companies, the money
animators are being paid doesn't hurt either.
The first 2-D colour animation was the creation
of cartoon characters and scenes. Each frame was painstakingly drawn and
painted by hand on cells, which were captured on camera in sequence to
create the film. The first 3-D animation was stop-motion animation,
where the artist used 3-D sculptures and forms to create the scene,
photograph it, alter it slightly and photograph it again, continuing in
sequence to create the animation clip. Today's animators use powerful
animation software and computers to create 2-D and 3-D animation for
web sites, film and video, gaming and mobile media. Drawing and
sculpting skills still play a role in today's animation, but
cutting-edge technology has combined with art to expand the horizons of
creativity and productivity. Many animators have an associate's or
bachelor's degree in an animation-related field, while others have a
high school diploma and similar experience and skill.
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Thursday, 23 April 2015
Useful applications of the internet
A blog is a website maintained by an individual and it is also known as an online dairy. A blog is a web page that serves as a publicly accessible journal for an individual. The blog contains texts, images, and links to other blogs as well. Blogs can be personal or corporate. In personal blog, the individual writes about his day-to-day activities and comments on various issues and shares his thoughts and feelings with others. It is an interactive forum and the readers can leave a comment after reading the blog. This is the most mportant feature of a blog. Though blogs are primarily textual, photographs, sketches, audio and video can also be included in blog. Blogs can also be used for business purpose. It can be used by an organization for internal communication or externally for marketing, branding and public relations. Blogs are also known as weblogs.
Real time communication between two users via a computer is known as chat. Once a chat has been initiated user can enter text by typing on the keyboard and the entered text will appear on the user's monitor. Audio conferencing capability via the internet is known as voice chat. It enables two or more users to use the computer as a telephone conferencing system. Voice signifies verbal chat as chatting in internet always meant an interaction via keyboard where voice could not be heard. Chat room allows multiple users to chat over a particular issue. PCMAG.COM defines chat room as interactive online discussion on a topic. Chat rooms are set up to handle group discussion and everyone sees what everyone else types in. Chatting is not the official communication among the employees; rather it is treated as a medium to discuss work related issues as well as non-work related issues. Chatting helps to stay connected with friends who are spatially dispersed. Internet is perhaps the cheapest and the fastest medium of keeping in touch with school and college friends. Voice chatting is preferred as it is not expensive and it also gives a feeling of face-to-face communication. Writing letters is almost an obsolete practice now, phone numbers change frequently, hence chatting is preferred as it is a two-way communication and it is also instant communication.
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Monday, 20 April 2015
Understanding Internet: Online innovation of Global Village
Introduction
'Today more than a century of electric
technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a
global embrace, abolishing both time and space as far as our planet is
concerned.' (McLuhan, 1964, p 3).McLuhan used the phrase 'global
village' to highlight his observation that an electronic nervous system
(the media) was rapidly integrating the planet -events in one part of
the world could be experienced from other parts in real-time, which is
what human experience was like when we lived in small villages. Hence,
it also means with internet the world or the 'virtual world' is well
within our reach, just by the click of the mouse.
Today the phrase "global village" also
encompasses internet technology and sociologists have studied the
impact of this technology on society. Internet is a communication
medium that allows the communication of many to many, in chosen time,
on a global scale. It has ushered in a new world of communication,
which Manuel Castells refers to as the 'Internet Galaxy.' Internet is
becoming the essential communication and information medium in our
society, and stands alongside electricity and the printing press as one
of the greatest innovations of all time (Castells, 2003).
Internet is unique because it integrates both
different modalities of communication (reciprocal interaction, group
discussion, individual reference searching) and different kinds of
content (text, video, visual images, audio) in a single medium. This
versatility, it is expected, will lead to social change perhaps more
deeply than radio or television in times to come.
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Thursday, 16 April 2015
Video Editing - an Overview
Introduction
Video Editing is a good lucrative career option with lots of fun but also entails a lot of hard work. To be a good editor, school and college is a great place to gain all the skills but remember degree is not the ultimate destination that matters, it's what you know and how much you know that does.
Editing is an important part of television and film production. A majority of the audience do not have any idea of post production. When they watch a movie they might not notice how each scene blends into the next scene. How sounds are perfectly matched with the scene. How a scene can be made to appear dramatic by using proper music fitted into each scene of the movie.
When shooting a movie it's natural to make mistakes. A cameraman does not know the magic of taking a shot perfectly every time. Actors, the director and other crew members can't say that they never make mistakes. So it ends with the requirement of hours and hours of raw footage.
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Friday, 3 April 2015
Functions and Type of Advertising Agencies
Introduction
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Advertising messages are usually paid for by sponsors and viewed via various traditional media; including mass media such as newspapers, magazines, television commercials, radio advertisements, outdoor advertising or direct mails; or new media such as websites and text messages.
Today, advertising is considered as the promotional tool of marketing mix. The word advertising has its origin from a Latin word 'Advertise' which means 'turns on'. The dictionary meaning of the word is 'to announce publicly' or to give 'public notice'. John E Kennedy- Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services by an identifiable sponsor.
Characteristics Of Advertising
To understand what makes advertising different from other forms of communication, the following are the distinguishing features:
Paid form: It is a tool of promotion which is paid for by the advertiser. There are standard tariff rates for the different types of media where the advertiser chooses to place an advertisement. Money is paid per second in radio and TV or per column centimetre (cc) in print media by advertiser.
Non- personal presentation: Advertising is addressed to mass audience. Unlike a salesman who communicates personally, an advertiser communicates non-personally. It is neither delivered by any person nor is it addressed to any specific person. There is a facilitating agency, through which advertisements reach a large number of target audience .
Promotion: The aim of advertising is to persuade people to buy products and services or to accept ideas which are being advertised. The task of promoting these products and services is done through communicating to the target audience by using the right media vehicle.
Identifiable sponsor: The sponsor is the person or group which is paying for the advertisement. In case of an advertisement, it can be easily identified as to what is the source of advertising message.
Creative: An advertisement should be creative. Without it, the reader or viewer may not notice the message. Advertisements should be used to present the ideas in an imaginative and dramatic way, showing how a product or service fulfills a consumer's needs.
Investment: Some people believe that advertising is a wasteful expenditure having a short term effect. However, it is proven that the advertisements are an investment towards the building of goodwill and brand image in the market. It should be sustained over a period of time or else the message will be forgotten.
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Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Advertising messages are usually paid for by sponsors and viewed via various traditional media; including mass media such as newspapers, magazines, television commercials, radio advertisements, outdoor advertising or direct mails; or new media such as websites and text messages.
Today, advertising is considered as the promotional tool of marketing mix. The word advertising has its origin from a Latin word 'Advertise' which means 'turns on'. The dictionary meaning of the word is 'to announce publicly' or to give 'public notice'. John E Kennedy- Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services by an identifiable sponsor.
Characteristics Of Advertising
To understand what makes advertising different from other forms of communication, the following are the distinguishing features:
Paid form: It is a tool of promotion which is paid for by the advertiser. There are standard tariff rates for the different types of media where the advertiser chooses to place an advertisement. Money is paid per second in radio and TV or per column centimetre (cc) in print media by advertiser.
Non- personal presentation: Advertising is addressed to mass audience. Unlike a salesman who communicates personally, an advertiser communicates non-personally. It is neither delivered by any person nor is it addressed to any specific person. There is a facilitating agency, through which advertisements reach a large number of target audience .
Promotion: The aim of advertising is to persuade people to buy products and services or to accept ideas which are being advertised. The task of promoting these products and services is done through communicating to the target audience by using the right media vehicle.
Identifiable sponsor: The sponsor is the person or group which is paying for the advertisement. In case of an advertisement, it can be easily identified as to what is the source of advertising message.
Creative: An advertisement should be creative. Without it, the reader or viewer may not notice the message. Advertisements should be used to present the ideas in an imaginative and dramatic way, showing how a product or service fulfills a consumer's needs.
Investment: Some people believe that advertising is a wasteful expenditure having a short term effect. However, it is proven that the advertisements are an investment towards the building of goodwill and brand image in the market. It should be sustained over a period of time or else the message will be forgotten.
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Friday, 27 March 2015
Theatre in Education and Beyond
Introduction
Teaching and learning is a process which requires free flow of communication between the teacher and the students. The important question to be asked when considering the use of a particular teaching technique is why one wants it? Or do not want to use that particular technique. The key issue is how it fits into the whole learning process.
Teaching and learning is a process which requires free flow of communication between the teacher and the students. The important question to be asked when considering the use of a particular teaching technique is why one wants it? Or do not want to use that particular technique. The key issue is how it fits into the whole learning process.
Conventional method of teaching and learning such as lectures, reading, discussions and writing can be used successfully to help students to acquire knowledge of factual material and to impart them essential theoretical frame work, but it has its own limitations to change the students attitude or behavior. To read or hear about something is altogether different from experiencing it. The problems of unprivileged class can be discussed in the intellectual conferences, but the felling of being unprivileged cannot be obtained in the air-condition conference hall.
Theatre is one form of teaching techniques which help to students to cope up with handling human situation and its uncertainty. The technique of theatre can be applied in different ways; one of its applications can be in ‘Case Method of Teaching’
‘Case Method’ of Teaching
Case Method of teaching is an active learning method, which requires participation and involvement of the students. The entire approach of learning is different. The participants are supposed to learn from the given situation, constraints and problems. The trainer or teacher acts as facilitator, helping the participants to analyze the situation. A case is usually a description of an actual situation, involving a decision, a challenge, an opportunity, a problem or an issue faced by a person of a group of persons. In learning with the case method, the participant must deal with situation described in the case, in a role of manger or decision maker facing the situation. Case can have multiple solutions; each solution has its own logical argument.
Case Method of teaching is an active learning method, which requires participation and involvement of the students. The entire approach of learning is different. The participants are supposed to learn from the given situation, constraints and problems. The trainer or teacher acts as facilitator, helping the participants to analyze the situation. A case is usually a description of an actual situation, involving a decision, a challenge, an opportunity, a problem or an issue faced by a person of a group of persons. In learning with the case method, the participant must deal with situation described in the case, in a role of manger or decision maker facing the situation. Case can have multiple solutions; each solution has its own logical argument.
In the lecture method, learners receive the knowledge from an expert. In case method of learners should make the knowledge with the help of an expert. Cases have multiple meanings and thus always controversial, in a class of one hundred students every student comes with different view.
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