Re: GEN: GREAT VIDEOS

[Roberta Hope Moecker <rmoecker@TENET.EDU>]

The video on Harriet Tubman kept my eighth graders quiet throughout the
whole  video.  It was like magic...

On Thu, 2 May 1996, Deborah Marie Collier wrote:

> The three videos I received originally were the ones on Mark Twain (which
> DOES stress his real name), Helen Keller, & The Alamo (William Travis).
> All three were *excellent* quality, no rolling or sound distortion, & I
> didn't even have to adjust the tracking!
>
> Here are two personal testimonials to the videos I have heard myself:
>
>         A teacher took home the Mark Twain video to preview & her 6-yr-old
>         son watched it with her. He is a gifted boy, but he was also able
>         to follow the story line, & learned what personification, alliter-
>         ation, & onomotopia (however you spell it!) is.
>
>         The teacher with the worst 4th grade class in school wanted a
>         video to show during lunch to 2 classes (45 students). I gave her
>         "The Alamo". She came back later RAVING about the film, how his-
>         torically correct it was, but, most of all, all the kids SAT STILL
>         for the entire movie. She said you could've heard a pin drop, & even
>         the behavior problems were glued to the screen. She has showed
>         all types of videos in an effort to get these kids' attention, &
>         this is the ONLY one that worked this year.
>
>         Later that week, this same teacher brought her class in for check-
>         out, & the two ADD students (who get taken home by the principal
>         *at least* once each week) asked for books about Travis! YEAH!
>
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> *   Debbie Collier          Orange Grove Elementary  *
> *   Librarian &             Houston, Texas           *
> *   "Resourceress"          COLLIE@TENET.EDU         *
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