Using the SMARTboard as a projection screen, teachers are able to share a variety of commercials and print advertisements with students. If video-sharing websites such as YouTube and Vimeo are not blocked by school filters, teachers have access to numerous commercials to show students. The Living Room Candidate, sponsored by the Museum of the Moving Image, offers campaign commercials from 1952 through 2008. PBS Kids' "Don't Buy It" contains a series of activities related to advertising and propaganda for teachers to complete with students on the SMARTboard.
Using SMARTboard Notebook software, teachers are able to set up simple matching games to help students review propaganda techniques. Type the names of propaganda techniques on movable text boxes. Create a list of definitions and have students drag the correct propaganda technique to place it next to the correct definition. Add difficulty to the game by writing examples of slogans that use the various propaganda techniques or displaying pictures of ads using propaganda techniques and have students match the techniques with the appropriate examples.
Using the SMARTboard, students are able to instantly analyze ads and speeches to see whether they contain propaganda techniques. Display a print ad on the SMARTboard and invite students to come to the board and circle, highlight and label portions of the ad that use various propaganda techniques. Display a popular speech and have students highlight examples of propaganda techniques found in the speech. American Rhetoric contains the text of nearly 100 popular speeches from history for teachers to use in the classroom.
Create a PowerPoint presentation that defines each propaganda technique and contains examples of print ads, slogans and commercials using those techniques. Have students take notes as they view the PowerPoint. Play a review game by creating a PowerPoint version of a popular trivia game such as Jeopardy or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Include questions that have students define propaganda techniques and analyze examples of propaganda techniques.