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Tag Archives: teacher guide
James Cameron’s Avatar
On November 16, 2010, the 3-Disc Extended Collectors Edition Blue-ray of James Cameron’s AVATAR will be available to the public. It is a tool that can support learning in middle and high school classrooms for educators willing to embrace pop … Continue reading
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Tagged Avatar, blue-ray, curriculum, lesson plans, media guide, review, teacher guide
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Beauty and the Beast Diamond Edition
Films released on DVD offer a wealth of resources that can be harnessed for the classroom. The Diamond Edition of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a fine example of this. The blue ray edition offers teachers a plethora of … Continue reading
Tag You’re It!
Yesterday I got the greatest email! It was from Charon at the Points of Light Foundation. I was one of the top leaders for their game of Tag and I’d won a donation in my name to the charity of … Continue reading
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Tagged Hands on Network, Service Learning, Tag You're It, teacher guide
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First let me say thank you to Felicia Day for posting the link below on her twitter feed. It was great fun to read but then I got to thinking-What could be a better unit that Dickens, HG Wells, and … Continue reading
Using Graphic Novels with Children and Teens
Using Graphic Novels with Children and Teens Comics and kids were meant for each other. If it was banned at school, then the kids wanted to read it. Most kids may even have read more comic books than textbooks, which … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Educator Resources
Tagged Classroom resources, Graphic Novels, teacher guide
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Resources for New Media in the Classroom
I’ve been thinking about new media and its role in educating digital natives alot lately. Perhaps its the work I’m doing currently with the Arizona Student Film Festival. Perhaps it is my frustration that I found the One Day On … Continue reading
Posted in Filmmaking
Tagged az student film festival, edutopia, flip video, new media, one day on earth, teacher guide
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Graphic Novels for Multiple Literacies
Graphic Novels for Multiple Literacies Gretchen E. Schwarz One day after German class, a young man came up to me with a book in hand. He was a bright high school student with good grades, but he usually clowned around … Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes Reinvented
Like Frankenstein and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes is a character so fundamental to his genre that although he was not the first fictional detective, he is widely considered the best. And like is counterparts in horror and suspense he is also … Continue reading
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Tagged blue-ray, curriculum, DVD, lesson plans, media guide, review, Sherlock Holmes, teacher guide
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