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An online exhibition of presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2008, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

A documentary produced by Centillion Productions Ltd. in association with CBC-TV (Canadian Broadcasting), first broadcast Feb 2010. From this page, you can download the full documentary (45 minutes) or the 30 second trailer.

Part of an assignment in a course described in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread. Students were allowed to select a documentary of interest, and the documentary selected was Google World.

Part of Phil Taylor's Web Site, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. This is an excerpt from his book, The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin's Speeches by The Institute for Propaganda Analysis, and published in 1939.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Stanley Milgram, as it appeared in Harper's Magazine. Abridged and adapted from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, 1974.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Jonah Lehrer, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. This bookmark points to the Worldcat record, which will direct you to alternate editions, as well as the closest library with a copy of this book.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread. Instructor also mentions that this is "a great piece of writing."

By Tom Stoppard, published by Samuel French, 1993. This is the worldcat record, which will direct you to other editions and formats, as well as help you to find Arcadia in a library near you.

Mentioned in the context of blending math and English in order to improved contextualization. When the instructor teaches this play in her English class, she has a math instructor join her to discuss fractals and their relevance to math.

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

Part of the Contextualization discussion, backing up the statistic that, at LaGuardia, more students need developmental math than writing.

Dan Meyer video lecture on TED.com, posted May 2010.

Posted to the thread Instructional Strategies: Contextualization, when looking at the issue of teaching word problems as part of math class.

Posted to YouTube in September 2006.

Part of the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization discussion; the song was used in a lesson on calculating the number of minutes in the year. The answer is in the song lyrics.

By Stanley Fish, August 1, 2008. On Hover Institution, Stanford University

This article was mentioned in Reid's Lesson for Instructional Strategies: Contextualization forum.

A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in the Contextualization thread, as an example of a program that allows students to learn within the context of "real world" projects like the environment and climate change.