On Thu, 28 May 1998, Kristine T. Utterback wrote:
> 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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I believe Elizabeth A.R. Brown did a course like this some yrs back. You
shd contact her.
Mike
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