{"id":18182,"date":"2014-02-19T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T10:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=18182"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:34:42","slug":"selling-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/02\/19\/selling-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Propagandizing Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapping up an entertaining unit on propaganda, the students in grade 8 made a presentation aimed at getting students to vote them school council president in a fictional election. Students were required to create two posters and a video, and to give a speech. All or most of the propaganda techniques we discussed in class were required to be in their work.<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts were excellent and really demonstrated an understanding of how propaganda works to target our attitudes and emotions, rather than our reason and common sense. <\/p>\n<p>Special kudos to Willem who produced what was universally acclaimed to be the highlight of today&#8217;s presentations, a video that was both sophisticated and incredibly propagandistic. <\/p>\n<p>Below, Trisha presents one of her posters. Below that, a display of my favorite posters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140219-143808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140219-143808.jpg\" alt=\"20140219-143808.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140219-143849.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140219-143849.jpg\" alt=\"20140219-143849.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapping up an entertaining unit on propaganda, the students in grade 8 made a presentation aimed at getting students to vote them school council president in a fictional election. Students were required to create two posters and a video, and to give a speech. All or most of the propaganda techniques we discussed in class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-8","category-secondary-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}