QuickTime, from Apple, is available free of charge for Mac and Windows at
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ . Once installed, you will be able
to see the "Commanding Heights" videos
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From: Economics, business, and related subjects
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Kettell
Sent: samedi 17 juillet 2004 15:53
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Subject: Re: Commanding Heights
Do we have to subscribe to Quickline to make this programme work ?
Brian kettell
>From: Alison Eves <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Economics, business, and related subjects"
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>Subject: Re: Commanding Heights
>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:08:00 +0100
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>Thank you very much for publicising this resource. It has distracted me
>from my Saturday morning chores(!)..and looks very promising. This is
>exactly what this list at its best can do.
>Alison
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Poznanski
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:46 AM
> Subject: Commanding Heights
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> I have found what seems to be a very useful teaching resource based on
>the book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw < The Commanding Heights >.
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> If you go to
>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/story/index.html you will find
>the 6 hours of this economics programme available on line, in QuickTime
>format, broken up into 3 episodes and many chapters. I have been watching
>the videos on broadband, and the reception and content are brilliant.
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> There is also the transcript of every chapter available, essays on a
>whole range of subjects going form Keynes, the Chicago School or Raul
>Prebisch and Dependencia Theory etc.
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> Has anybody used this in teaching at International Baccalaureate or A/
>AS Level? If so, how?
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> Also, is there anybody on the list who knows how the video stream for
>that programme could be captured in order to show bits of the programme
>off-line?
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