I went to find a video to post to try out embedding a video and found myself sucked into the YouTube vortex for way too long. My oh my.
The video is the first part of the movie Gattaca which I show to my Biology students. What I'm toying around with though is somehow doing it through a blog format where the video is posted (problem one: YouTube has it but it's in segments). If they watched a segment or two a night, they could post about it and answer questions. This would help to free up those days because it often takes me 4+ days to watch it in class (mainly because we spend several minutes at the beginning finding where we were and several minutes at the end doing end of class wrap up things). I'm not sure if this would work and would allow them to get the most out of the movie, but I will continue to think on it. Hmmm....
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Ohhh, I like this idea of yours. I usually use GATTACA in 3 sections, and if students could watch it at home for an assignment---that could be a cool new trick. I too could avoid the cueing, the begging for a machine to play said movie (which I believe I only own in, gasp, VHS).
ReplyDeleteYeah, I would need to definitely look into the implementation but I think it definitely has promise. Will continue to mull it over.
ReplyDeleteMy students really got into it last year and it fostered a lot of really great discussion and I just worry that some of that would be lost. The hope would be that they would get into the same lively discussion on a blog and then we could carry some over into the classroom.
Continued mulling...
You might find that you are more likely to get participation from students who are generally more reserved in class. Having both discussion formats (online and in class) may result in a richer discussion.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm thinking maybe we watch a little in class then discuss and then they go home and watch more and discuss on a blog. This would probably cut the time in half and would allow them to experience both. I really think (and hope) that an online discussion would engage them in deeper debate. I found that with that movie that had so much to say beyond even what I was thinking - it really got them to think outside the box. The more opportunities for them to discuss the better.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas Katie! Showing Gattaca is definitely one of my favorite parts of teaching Genetics. We usually do quite a bit of discussing, but it does take up so much class time. I love the idea of posting on a blog the important video segments up one or two at a time, accompanied by a thought provoking question they could then discuss, all as a homework assignment. If they want to watch the whole movie, they can just rent it. I mean, there isn't really that much educational value in watching the part where him and Uma are upside down reflected on a mirror or something going at it or Jude's little tantrums.
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