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This website for the film offers a downloadable study guide and offers to buy the DVD of the film. The film looks at the rise of the military industrial complex in the U.S.

SB used this film to queue a writing assignment.

Film directed by Marc Forby (2009); information page on IMDB. "The true story of a Hawaiian princess' attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization."

RS showed film in class, week 8, semester 3.

Produced by WorldLink, (n.d.), Nourish is available for purchase from this web page. The video illustrates how our food choices have impacts outside of our own homes/bodies (e.g. environment, labor, etc.). There is a short excerpt available on this web page; full film runs 26 minutes.

We *think* that RA used the full-length version of this film in her class (week 3, semester 4).

General information -- as well as ordering information -- about the HBO film, Temple Grandin.

In the context of "meaningful assignments," TM shows this film in class, discusses it with the students, and then students are assigned to write a letter to Grandin (using business format). TM mails the packet of letters to Dr. Grandin.

Film directed by Davis Guggenheim (2010); information page on IMDB. Documentary that follows a group of kids through the NYC public education system.

RS showed in class, week 16, semester 3.

Video on TED.com, filmed March 2011; posted March 2011. Salman Kahn talks about starting up Khan Academy, and its goal of offering short videos of exercises. He suggests that teachers consider flipping the classroom: give students video lectures to watch at home and do the exercises in class with the teacher there to help.

TM recommended this video as background on the idea of "flipped classroom."

Part of TED2011, filmed March 2011; posted October 2011 on TED.com. Coron is an artist who works in paper-cutting. In this video, she recounts her own life and work, with examples.

RA used this video to help her students think about their own "storytelling" as they worked on their final essays. She felt that this video also helped to expand her students' worlds.

Available from iTunes, movie trailers and a "featurette" for the film Hugo, 2011.

RA recommends Trailer 2 to help illustrate for students how "a reader is pulled through the coherent flow of ideas in an essay."

TED2006, Filmed Feb 2006; posted June 2006. From the description, "Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity."

Looking to add "variety in instruction," KP closed her class with the first 6 minutes of this TED talk, week 1, semester 4.

TM shared this and several other TED Talks as examples of innovation in her classroom.

TED2005, filmed Feb 2005, posted Dec 2006. St. John interviews a variety of "TED-sters" to learn their secrets of success, which are condensed into 8 points in this very brief talk,.

TS showed this TED talk and then asked her students to identify the thesis statement, week 3, semester 4.

TEDxTeen, filmed April 2011; posted Nov 2011. Warne defines "anonymous extraordiaries," the unknown people who make a big difference, e.g. the man who wrote Dr. King's speeches, or the young organizers (like Warne) who helped to organize a world-wide event that made a difference in a 25-year war in East Africa.

RO used this video in her penultimate class, which also included discussion of service learning, week 14, semester 4.

From TEDxToronto 2012. Filmed Sept 2010 and posted on Ted.com Jan 2011. Pasricha, who blogs 1000 Awesome Things and has written a best-seller, The Book of Awesome, asserts that with attitude, awareness, and authenticity, one can lead an "awesome" life.

RO used this video as a resource for her victim-creator essay, week 4, semester 4.

Part of TED2001, filmed Feb 2001 and posted March 2009. Coach John Wooden of UCLA was one of the winningest coaches in basketball. According to the description, in this talk, "Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves."

RO showed this video in class that looked at student success and paragraph structure, week 6, semester 4.

Website of John Taylor Gatto. According to his biography (on this website), Gatto was a long-time schoolteacher, eventually winning New York State Teacher of the Year (also multi-winner of NYC Teacher of the Year). He then very publicly quit teaching (that same year) and launched a public-speaking and film-making career, exploring what he feels is wrong with K-12 education.

SB mentions Gatto in a post describing readings that he's used that are critical of the current educational system.

On TED.com, filmed July 2009 and posted October 2009. Talgam, a former conductor, describes the "unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders."

TM posted, with the message, "I think you would enjoy this video and it's implications for how we can inspire our students to learn."

Presented on TED.COM, filmed Feb 2010 and posted April 2010. Wujec discusses his experience using the Marshmallow Challenge in team-building exercises. Observing the challenge 100s of times, he sees that kindergarteners do better than recent business school grads (better at prototyping, less jockeying for leadership), CEOs do well, but do even better with an executive admin on their team because facilitation is important. High stakes (he's offered a cash reward) works better once the team has acquired skills; high stakes with no skills is a disaster.

Inspired by this video, both LS and RS used the Marshmallow Challenge as an icebreaker on their first class meetings (2nd semester) and both were pleased with the results.

The marshmallow challenge continued to be a popular icebreaker throughout the GSCC project. In semester 4, RS referenced this video again, and LS created her own video (see tag marshmallow) with her students completing the challenge.

Conrad Wolfram presentation on TED.com (filmed July 2010; posted Nov 2010). Wolfram argues that math applications are all around us, and that people in a ever-wider variety of workplaces are excited about math...but students are not. Wolfram argues that bringing computers into the math classroom would help improve math's relevancy -- and build excitement as well. Use the tag wolfram to look at his "knowledge engine," Wolfram Alpha.

Posted on YouTube by fotoner, June 16 2006, this is a 6-1/2 minute clip from the South African film Tsotsi.

JE used this clip in his lesson, Saying Something Smart and Interesting, (week 13, semester II). JE also used week 6, semester 3).

By Tong Xiang in the (Duke) Chronicle, October 7 2010. Review of film, The Social Network.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

By Rick Mereki and posted on Vimeo early August 2011. One of a three-part series; others titled move and eat. According to the blurb, the films were commissioned by STA Travel Australia.

R.A. recommended this video and suggested it would be fun to share with students.