Dear List members,
How apt from my point of view that this discussion of videos in the
classroom came up. I had suspended it for a couple of months, and I just
rejoined a couple of weeks ago. I'm thinking seriously about developing a
western civ. course based on films. I have two purposes in mind.
1. Teaching history using videos.
2. Teaching the students to evaluate videos as history. After all,
most of them will see more videos than they will read historical books. How
useful if they know how to think about whether what they are seeing has any
accuracy.
I have a couple of questions.
1. Has anyone out there developed such a course? If so, I'd be
delighted to talk to you off-line.
2. Is there some place in the US where these videos are available?
Something like "The Advocate" sounds ideal, but I live in a small town and
less generally popular works often aren't easily accessible. I haven't
started checking yet.
3. Will I run into copyright problems showing them in my classes?
(I've done it for years, but on a small scale.)
4. Has anyone done a film on Charlemagne? He seems like a natural
for an epic, but I can't think of or find anything. I've gone through the
Online Resource Base or whatever that's called (I have it bookmarked so I
don't have to remember) that someone recommended a day or two ago.
Thanks for all your help. People on this wonderful list have done about
everything. I'm constantly amazed both at the breadth of members and their
generosity.
Kris Utterback
University of Wyoming
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