Love dot com is a neat little 30 minute discovery channel documentary made in Australia that shows three kinds of online relationships. The value of this film is length (fits a class well+discussion) and a wonderful quality of letting the participants speak - 1 or 2 minutes from the people in these relationships says more than I could in an hour. I rather like television programs too. Various popular TV shows (which, in Australia, we can record and use and the university pays a licence fee to cover this privilege) often have nice net references...I can think of the Ally McBeal show where she dates a 15 yo met online. My main comment though is...what is the pedagogic purpose of AV material? - I am regularly told by students that they find the use of a short video, or extract/segment, overcomes boredom, reinforces the points made etc. As a lecturer I find it useful to keep my work fresh - I tend to find new things in the films I show (and then comment on) each year. However, what difficulties does AV-based pedagogy pose for distance education online? Matt Assoc. Prof. Matthew Allen Internet Studies Coordinator School of Media and Information Curtin University of Technology http://smi.curtin.edu.au m.allen@curtin.edu.au +61 8 9266 3511 Allen, SMI, Curtin Uni, GPO Box U1987 Perth 6845, WA -----Original Message----- From: thomas/swiss [mailto:thomas-swiss@uiowa.edu] Sent: Monday, 22 October 2001 0:12 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Films/Pedagogy Hi, A pedagogical question. Can folks who use films in their internet studies classes offer a list of them, either to this list, or to me personally? Equally important, tho, would be a few sentences of WHY you teach them or HOW you teach them in relation to the issues yr class explores. We all know the ususal suspects: Bladerunner, for example, and those films that disrupt narrative (Time Code) but what other films or videos and why and how? Thanks in advance. Thom Swiss thomas-swiss@uiowa.edu _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l