Citings and Sightings

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  Jessie Daniels 6:25 am on April 16, 2008 | # | Reply

  Hey, thanks for the link !

  And, if I may expand on your lede, t’s not just that students ‘love watching movies during class time’ (and they do), it’s that students who have grown up with visual media as part of their environment and they need skills to be able to ‘read’ those visual texts just like they need skills to be able to read scholarly literature. For example in a response to a mid-semester survey from this semester, students in one of my classes wrote this: “I believe the visual texts (films) are great because we are a visual generation and we grew up on television, computers, etc. ” And, another wrote: “They (films) are really helpful in terms of visualizing or understanding the text that we were supposed to read for this week.”

  ~ Jessie Daniels, PhD
  CUNY-Hunter College

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  Jessie Daniels 5:54 pm on June 14, 2009 | # | Reply

  Hi – Just trying to get the word out, the blog where the list of films resided is no more, and now I’ve stashed the list of films here:

  http://sociologythroughdocumentaryfilm.pbworks.com/

  This is a wiki – so if you have films you want to add, please create a login and add them!

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  amelia 8:07 am on June 15, 2009 | # | Reply

  Thanks so much for the update, Jessie!

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