Below are the 2 most recent journal entries recorded in teachingmovies' Blurty:

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
7:01 am	TEACHING FILM IN THE CLASSROOM You are to create a lesson plan that will utilize among other activities a film of your choice that will assist your explication of the lesson. What is the Big Idea Lesson you are trying to teach? How would you set it up? What other things (books, materials, ideas, projects) would be part of the lesson. Finally, what film do you choose? Why? What do you want the students to get from the film? How does the film fit into your bigger lesson? What questions/assignments would you give the students in relation to the film? What would be the challenges to showing this particular film? What would you hope would be the biggest benefit from your selection? Please be detailed and thorough in your response. Afterwards, please comment on SOMEONE ELSE'S lesson. Critique it. What would you suggest they could do in addition and INCLUDE a film of YOUR CHOICE which you think would also be appropriate for the lesson. Justify your response and say WHY you would include that additional film If you were interested, Josh's film site is http://www.blurty.com/users/filmwatcher and his philosophy site is http://www.blurty.com/users/bigquestions which also utilizes a great number of films that address philosophical issues but are used suplementary. Thanks so much all of you for participating in the class! It was a great deal of fun and a thoughtful experience! (31 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
7:01 pm	UTILIZING FILMS IN THE CLASSROOM UTILIZING FILM IN THE CLASSROOM Welcome! I hope you enjoyed TSOTSI. What things stood out for you as you watched it? What did you notice about culture, gender or psychology? How would you use this film (or a clip of it) to teach your subject? Please post not only your comment, but later, check back and comment on someone else's ideas. We encourage using this on-line post to provoke dialogue. To see how it works for real, you can see an old class site http://www.blurty.com/users/paracake or http://www.blurty.com/users/bigquestions. It is an extremely effective tool that the students really can get stimulated about and it avoids traditional hand-in-the-homework assignments. It is spectacularly easy to grade and it illicits much more intelligent responses from the kids because they can read others' thoughts and then comment, add, agree or refute already posted ideas. HOW TO POST A COMMENT ON-LINE: You must type your name at the bottom or your posting or put it in the SUBJECT heading. Mark off the "Anonymous" box to submit. Please put your name in the text or the subject heading. You can create a "title" for your comment if you want as well in the subject heading. (17 Comments |Comment on this)