Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Using movies in a writing class

How can movies be used in a writing class? Some brainstorming: After watching a segment of a movie, students can create a character sketch of sorts on a character of their choosing. For example, the T could introduce the script writer’s trick of writing about what a character does in a certain situation, what their [...]

Computing in the Cloud: NPR

This article is useful for a technology module. Note that the text is not an actual transcript of the audio, available via the link, though some of the paragraphs in the article are taken verbatim from the audio. This is a common feature of NPR stories that include both audio and substantial text, and this [...]