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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 > [log in to unmask] > > > I believe Elizabeth A.R. Brown did a course like this some yrs back. You shd contact her. Mike %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%