I absolutely love this! I am a huge fan of movies and was in theater and drama all throughout middle school and high school. Those were the most memorable times for me in learning. We had to be able to visualize so many aspects of plays and movies alike. Also, we even were able to make our own videos. This is a fantastic program that children will remember forever.

I love the idea of multi media in the classroom. Having GT students I can really see how their minds would be gathering information from movies, timelines, text etc. and thus fostering great questions in their minds. This skill of questioning something they have been taught promotes higher level thinking. I am definitely going to challenge myself to use more stimulus in the classroom especially in Texas History.

Martin S. is a highly effective director whom I always associated with the darker side of society. I was impressed with the students' comments and their understanding of the use of light and dark and the value of the type of music having a subliminal effect on the audience. By choosing effective elements these cab attract the students to the story, but this can also be used adversely. The classroom teacher has to be very careful in the media (s)he brings into the classroom because it can have an adverse effect.

I agree that movie making will make the social studies curriculum more interesting and that a movie is a natural flow of social studies. I would welcome anything that would bring life to the area of sst. I feel it would make it more interesting to teach and to learn. Everyone involved will get more out of history in that way.

what a way to get the young student interested in movie making. Teachers can illustrate how perception is reality.

WOW!! I absolutely love the idea of using more visuals to help foster a love of learning history in our kiddos. Students today are absorbed in visuals all the time with their video games, etc. Using films rather than just the textbook would certainly help make social studies come alive for students, especially my ESL students! I hope this idea takes off even in the elementary grades :-)

As a teacher of social studies, I get bored reading from the textbook. If I can find a way to make the same information more interesting, then we all will be more interested in what we need to learn.

Our students today are very media driven. If we could put our face on a little bitty screen, they would watch us for hours. Finding a way through movies to reach kids is really tapping into their interests. If we find their interest, then they will learn and retain the information presented to them.

I love the idea of teaching through the use of movies. I think it taps into our instinctual ability to learn visually. Movies not only tell facts, but they convey emotion that make the learning real. Let us not forget that the first way we learned things as infants was to watch our family members. We used our ability to interpret these actions to create meaning and then figured out how it could apply to ourselves (how can I do that, why should I do that, when should I do that, etc...)