General suggestions: Integrating Educational Technologies into Your Classrooms
Your assignment: Using Movies Effectively in the Classroom
1) What characteristics make a feature movie effective as a classroom teaching tool?
2) When should feature movies be used for full-class instruction, and when should they be used for small groups or individual projects?
3) Describe strategies to locate suitable feature movies for your classes.
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4) Design a lesson plan that incorporates at least one feature movie.
Through the ESPRIT list-serv, Cheska Lorena suggested a link to online lesson plans, using “October Sky” as an example: http://moviesheets.com/site/sheets.php?id=178
E2C Follow-up:
You may send your model lesson and other responses to this “assignment” to michael@earth2class.org. If suitable, we will post your work in the E2C lesson plans and/or add them to this section of the Workshop website.
