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=Animal I have become (Macbeth 2005)- Movie trailer=

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You Tube can be a great source of ideas for the English Classroom. One way of using it is getting students to watch professional movie trailers to get them thinking on a topic or even to gather ideas to produce their own. When Studying Shakespeare's Macbeth, students can relate what happens in the play with what would happen in a modern setting. They can work with this idea: How are the play’s themes still relevant in today’s culture?. Students will attempt to draw a comparison between the themes in the play and 21st century culture. To assist students with coming up with ideas, they can watch this movie trailer from "Shakespeare Retold" which as only presents images, it can lead to a good amount of brainstorming for ideas. = ﻿Crisis of Capitalism =

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I have never personally used this video but I agree with Lynn, I also love RSA animate. I would choose a video such as this for a senior History or Economy class as it depicts how capitalism has fallen. Now, I think it would be great for senior students as they would have the intellectual capacity to understand the concepts and it would also be engaging (not just reading definitions from a book which they usually don't understand anyway). It would probably stay in their memories longer if accompanied with good scaffolding in a lesson. Thanks RSA bringing to life lectures!!! = =

=﻿﻿Diagonal view channel on Myspace - (the world's fattest man gets married) ﻿ =

I found this Myspace video channel quite interesting as it displays a series of videos with unusual, "whacky" stories that can be used to sparkle curiosity, engage students in a topic or stimulate class discussion (I believe Stage 3- junior high school students would find this most amusing). These are all real life stories, some from the "Guiness World Records". This video clip collection can come in handy for any teacher wanting to add some creativity to his/her lessons and also would aid retention as it is well documented that the brain remembers "shocking" information the most!