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Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - History: Storytelling in Print and Film
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Evans Odei - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Ghana
Mathematics teacher Evans Odei from Achimota Senior High, Greater Accra, Ghana, has been teaching for 20 years with the Ghana Education Service, falling in love with the profession while at teacher training college. After teaching at...
Curated Video
Backchanneling Video and Film Screenings with TodaysMeet
Showing videos or films in your classroom? Use TodaysMeet as a backchannel for real-time chat. With the help of a backchannel, students and teachers can discuss screenings, silently, as they watch. For more tips on using video in the...
National Gallery of Art
Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 4.3: Investigating with the Creative Questions Game
In this lesson demonstration video filmed at the National Gallery of Art, museum educator Meghan Lally Keaton turns Creative Questions into a game using Sam Gilliam's Relative with a fifth grade class from Beers Elementary School,...
National Gallery of Art
Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 4.2: Going Deeper with Creative Questions
In this lesson demonstration video filmed at the National Gallery of Art, a group of teachers from District of Columbia Public Schools use two routines, Looking: 5 x 2 and Creative Questions, to explore a contemporary, abstract work of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Film Threat'
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Evans Odei - Teachers Make a Difference - Madam Susana Danso
Mathematics teacher Evans Odei from Achimota Senior High, Greater Accra, Ghana, has been teaching for 20 years with the Ghana Education Service, falling in love with the profession while at teacher training college. After teaching at...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Martha Tyson & Mrs. Emily Montague
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till - Carolyn Bryant - The Interview
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael S. Roth - Intellectual Diversity in Dangerous Times
Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Fishman - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Charles Fishman, journalist and co-author (with Brian Grazer) of A Curious Mind, argues that curiosity is an underrated—indeed essential—quality in a fast-changing world. He distinguishes true curiosity (showing up, asking people,...
Reading Through History
What is Animal Farm?
For a unit covering this material, click hereref='http://bit.ly/2l2IScW' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here The following video provides a short introduction to the novel Animal Farm, including a plot summary, as well as a history...
Reading Through History
History Brief: Movies in the 1930s
Reading Through History
What is 1984?
For a teaching unit covering Orwell, click hereref='http://bit.ly/2l2IScW' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here The following video provides a brief history of the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", including a plot summary, as well as how...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
How to Write | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | INTERVIEW | Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen Interviews Frank Cotrrell-Boyce Michael and Frank talk about writing, methods, techniques and ideas. Frank Cottrell Boyce is the author of Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, Cosmic, Framed, and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - 42 Million Ways to Be Black
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Teachers Make a Difference - Helene Iverson
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist,...