Author Victor Moeller contends that authentic learning begins only when teachers challenge students with real questions that demand solutions. Here, he aims to help teachers of the next generation develop skills of independent, reflective, and critical thinking with this book. It explains how to use film to bring Shakespeare to life through…

This study investigated whether or not low-bandwidth streaming video could be useful for affective purposes. A group of 30 students in a cinema course at a public, liberal arts university viewed a 10-minute dramatic video scene by either videotape or low-bandwidth streaming video. They also took a survey to determine their affective responses and…

Religious narratives can and do cross borders through communicative practices and arenas that span cultures. The ideas and conceptual tools enshrined in another culture's stories can be appropriated in one of two ways by another culture--either through using such a text to denigrate the originator culture or to adapt the ideas within to the new…

In the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, architects have broken some old conventions and rules of good taste in designing offices and a film theater through intelligent use of space and tacky flowered carpeting, garish colors, and automobile hoods and fenders. (Author/MF)

Methods that one junior high teacher uses in his history classes to encourage students to view more critically the history-based commercial films they encounter at the movies and on television away from school are discussed. (SM)

Author discussed the ways in which Antonioni develops a symbology of his own that combines to make his metaphoric statement on the bed which modern people have to lie in, a wasteland which deteriorates all aspects of the human personality. (Author/RK)

Analyzes director Victor Seastrom's concern with aspects of "scene"--as reflection, motivation, and symbol-particularly in his 1928 production, "The Wind." (Author/RB)

Author looks at the use of a film dealing with unrelated subject matter from which analogies to the material being taught can be drawn. (Author)

Article tells how to make a slide/sound picture story that captivates the special atmosphere of a school that alumni like to see. (Author)

A brief discussion of super eight film as an effective medium for teacher developed materials. (HB)

A series of three computer-generated films intended to serve as teaching aids in presenting ideas concerning the motion of electrons in periodic potential. (DF)

A discussion of teachers' prejudice against Navajos and an annotated list of three films on American Idians. (RB)