Current Events Project Idea

My supervisor is co-teaching a Current Events (really a class on current issues) this semester.  The class doesn't have a set curriculum, so I'm excited to have a chance to create a collaborative project with the classroom teacher.  It's an eighth grade class, so I'd like to integrate technology in some way. Here's the idea that I plan to propose to the classroom teacher:

• Ad Awarenesss - A multi-lesson unit on advertising, marketing, and critical literacy.  I would like to introduce the issues for teens related to advertising over several periods and then introduce the students to Thinglink (http://www.thinglink.com/) in the computer lab.  Thinglink is a free program that allows users to ad tags which include links or text to downloaded images.  As a unit project, I would like to have students use Thinglink to deconstruct advertisements.  Each student would find an ad and identify how the advertisers try to position viewers.  Students would then share their projects with the class in an informal presentation.  
• So far I've found the following helpful material online: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/advertising_marketing/mtt_introduction.cfm and http://www.admongo.gov/lesson-plans.aspx