Presents nine lessons, complete with objectives, fundamentals, and procedures, designed to help teachers and their students use filming to develop analytical skills, construct evaluation criteria, and utilize creative thinking and problem solving skills.
A guide for teachers, librarians, and media specialists for using video in the classroom, grades 3 to 12. Features illustrations, examples, and clear explanations for the non-expert, as well as student activities and projects for classroom use.
Do sharks deserve their vicious reputation? How can a shark swim without a bone in its body? Peer into the murky world of the shark and learn what motivates these fascinating creatures. Discsover a shark that can fit in your hand and a shark that eats only plankton - and learn that not all sharks are killing machines.
Contains rated reviews of over one thousand cult, horror, sci-fi, and so-called trash films; arranged alphabetically by title, with cast, category, director, and alternative title indexes.
When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.
Thirteen-year-old Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the summer before.
Explains to school library media specialists how to use video media to communicate with students, teachers, parents, and administrators, and covers such topics as camcorder operation, creating school television news shows, and linking computer and video.
Disappointed when he does not get the MTV production deal he wants, high school senior Eddy leaves his girlfriend and takes a road trip to find the mother who has left him and his younger stepbrother, who has taken a bit part in a television show.
