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Films and Videos

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Student Success:

Dartmouth Academic Success video 

Harvard Faculty Talk about Elements of Academic Argument

Academic Habits of Mind - Univ. of Maryland - 9:12

Procrastination - Work Smart

Understanding Assignments UNC

 

About Academic Writing:

Why Writing is Important 

What is Academic Writing?

10 Tips for Improving Your Academic Writing - 10:31 

 

Critical Thinking - 2:29

Stephen Colbert -The Word: On the Straight and Narrow-Minded 5:21

 

Essay Puzzle video re: Rush Limbaugh

 

Essay Writing:

Freewriting 

Ricky Gervais - Writing Process - 3:38

Writing Process animation - 13:12

EngVid Essay Writing - 10:31

Introductions and Conclusions - 6:30 

Color Coding ideas

Drawing Relationships

Transitions in Sentences and Paragraphs - 8:46

Flow (handout NOT video)

Writing a Summary

How to Write a Summary - hand model

SNL - Nicholas Fehn

Writing a Compare Contrast Essay

Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay

What IS Rhetoric Analysis?

 

Revision, Editing, and Proofreading:

Reverse Outlining

Why Proofreading Matters (Bedford St. Martin's) 4:38

Proofreading

Proofreading comedy - 3:30

Revision in the Real World -

 

Concision:

Writing Concisely and Clearly

Citation and Formatting:

UNC  Youtube writing videos

How to Format an Essay in MLA Style - 9:59

Why Citation is Important - transcript - Kimball library

How create MLA Works Cited List - 2:32

How to create in-text citations in MLA formattng

 

Writing Research Papers:

Annotated Bibliographies 

Evaluating Web Sources

Kimbel Library Videos 

 

Essay Types:

Compare Contrast essays - 10:25

 

Audience and Purpose:

 "Subtext Tales of Mere Existence"

Prezi - Audience - IKON

Audience Purpose and Tone - 1:52

Intro to Audience

Audience and Purpose - Purdue OWL

SNL "Girlfriend Voicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTcg1EW2ENg

SNL "My Mom's on Facebook Filter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUbcNohqlQ

 

Argument/Logic:

Writing an Argument; Thesis in a Scholarly Context - 3:09 Harvard Writes

Monty Python "Argument Clinic" - 

Toulmin Model 

Toulmin Model of Argument - Legalizing Marijuana (student film)

How to Write an Argument Essay - 2:55

Monty Python Witch Hunt - logical fallacies

Difference Between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning - Kahn Academy

Carol Burnett - inference

TED - Daniel Cohen - For Argument's Sake - 9:35

 

Rhetoric and Appeals:

Student rhetorical analysis of ads example - Old Spice 4:14

Introduction to Argument and Persuasion - the Appeals  3:34

Rhetorical Appeals 5:22 min

Rhetorical Analysis Rap 4:18

212 The Movie

 

Technology:

Prince Ea: Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? 3:27

60 Minutes: Brain Hacking 13:50

Key and Peele - Text Message Confusion 2:47

David Crystal - Texting: the Gr8t Deb8t - 10:55 UK game show

FrontlineDistracted by Everything -1:08:25

Linda Stone - Continuous Partial Attention - 2:31 - Q&A's

Bill Maher on selfies - 5:17 - some inappropriate language!

Selfies study: Link to CBS News: UC Irvine study shows selfies make you happy

NPR - Selfies: Me, Me, Me: The Rise Of Narcissism In The Age Of The Selfie

New York Times: "How to Deal with Digital Distractions"   

From The Conversation: "Why does using a period in a text message make you sound insincere or angry?"

 

Radio talks:

Screen Time Part 1- How Are Our Screens Changing Us Now? - 6:22

Screen Time Part II - Expanding the Role of Our Second Selves - 12:32

 

 

T.E.D. Talks:

Language:

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes the Way We Think 14:13 

Petrina Nomikou: Language and Thought 10:32

Mia Nacamulli: The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain 5:04

Elizabeth Stokoe: What a Difference a Word Can Make 19:23

Keith Chen: Could Language Affect Your Ability to Save? 12:13

Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are  21:03

Steven Pinker: What Our Language Habits Reveal - 17:29

Jamila Lyiscott: 3 Ways to Speak English - 4:29

Mark Forsyth: What's a Snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak 6:40

Mena Trott: Meet the Founder of the Blog Revolution - 16:46

 

Technology:

Ze Frank: "Are You Human" - about texting habits 4:21

Sherry Turkle: "Together Alone" 19:48

NY Times article: "Together, Alone" 

John McWhorter - Texting is Killing Language: JK!  13:48

7 Ted Talks about technology

Helen Fisher: Technology Hasn't Changed Love - Here's Why - 19:06

Renny Gleason: Our Anti-Social Phone Tricks 3:46

Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet Enables Intimacy 8:51

Johanna Blakely: Social Media and the End of Gender 8:27

Glenn Greenwalk: Why Privacy Matters  20:37

Moroush Zoromodi (article) "If you really want to remember a moment, try not to take a photo"

 

Other Topics:

Ken Robinson: Creativity in the Classroom

                               Bring on the Learning Revolution 6:22

                               How to Escape Education's Death Valley  19:12 

Dan Buettner: How to Live to Be 100

Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story 18 min.

                                 - Discussion questions 

Kent Larson: Brilliant Designs to Fit More People in Cities

Janine di Giovanni: What I Saw in the War  11:50

Christopher Soghoian:

Your Smartphone is a Civil Rights Issue  7:44    

How to Avoid Surveillance with the Phone in Your Pocket  6:16    

 

Advertising Analysis Videos:

Art of Rhetoric in Advertising 8:32

Psychological Tricks of Advertising  3:50

Coca-Cola Ad - the need to escape  :36

What the Media Does to Women 4:57

Talk to Your Daughters Before the Beauty Industry Does 1:20

Goldieblox -2:06

Role Reversal in Advertising - 4:36

Photos of Men in Ads posed like Women - 1:38

UK presentation about the realities of marketing food 6:59

"Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco"

"Killing Us Softly 3" on YouTube

Rhetoric in Advertising

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold 1:27:27

 

Linguistics/Language:

Netflix: Explained "!" 20:00

Key & Peele - street talking :48

My blackberry isn't working

Euphemisms - George Carlin - 9:01

Jimmy Santiago Baca - Defjam poetry reading

Signs and Symbols - Semiotics - 6:33

David Crystal - 5 Reasons for "Doing Linguistics"

What is the Study of Linguistics? - 2:42

Linguistic Relativity - 3:17

How the Brain Learns - 3:37

Neuroplasticity - Brain-based Learning - 3:21

What's a Snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak - 6:40 

Vocal Fry - 2:16

Ajit Narayanan - 15:43

Jabberwocky by a child - 1:22

 

Body Language - Social Construct of Spaces:

Seinfeld clip - 2:02

- article - Learning The Hard Way Why You Just Shouldn't Get Too Close

 

Media and Consumerism Videos:

Mark Crispin Miller - Media Reform - 28:02

 

Transitions:

The Evolution of Dance - 6 min.

 

Documentaries:

Robert Reich -

World of Work - 22:56

Inequality for Al- youtube

Saving Capitalism - Netflix

           What 9 out of 10 Americans Think about Inequality - 6:23

Malala Yousafzai - 6:14 A girl vs the Taliban

Paying it Forward - 3:03
Guns, Culture, and Crime - 25:00 

Going Home - NYC documentary by an Irish immigrant- 1:07

Growing Up Online - Frontline documentary

A Vision of Students

Citizenfour - Edward Snowden - 1:53:31

Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore 

 

Speakers:

Girl at the U.N. 

Bill Moyers interviews Marty Kaplan - Weapons of Mass Distraction - 25:12

Annie Dillard speaking at Harper's Magazine

Brent Staples: Racial Identity (1:29)

George Carlin: "Baseball vs. Football"  compare/contrast

  - Seven words you can never say on television 

Luis Rodriguez:  reading poetry in L.A.

Denise Rohman - Accents - 2:21

Seinfeld youtube: "The Soup Nazi" - RCWW Observation essay

David Sedaris "Me Talk Pretty One Day"

 

Films on Demand

Internet Research: What's Credible? 28:58

 

Grammar:

Why Grammar Matters 3:29

Lynda.com - Grammar Videos Bayfilly11 - 

Why Does Grammar Matter? 2:48  another link

Concision - football coach speech

Studio C - Captain Literally videos

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Its and It's

Run-On Sentences

Another Run-On Sentence video 2:26

Schoolhouse Rock

Topic Sentences

 

TED Ed Grammar:

Comma Story

Semi-Colons

Apostrophes

The Power of Simple Words

Beware of Nominalizations

A Brief History of Plural Words

Making Sense of Spelling

 

EngVid:

its/it's

that/which

there/they're/their

apostrophe use

commas

summarizing

paraphrasing

affect/effect

modals

parts of a paragraph

countable/non-countable nouns

understanding what you read

 

Time4Writing.com:

Capitalization 

Subject Verb agreement

Basic Comma Rules

More Comma Rules

Proofreading

Run-On Sentences and Fragments

 

English 201 Videos

Kids TV commercials essay:

Consuming Kids

GoldieBlox - 2:06
Cabbage Patch

Cabbage Patch 1985

 

Men's and Women's Communication:

The Manslator

How men's and women's brain differ- 5:00

How men and women are represented in the media

Gran Torino - barbershop scene - 3:09

Killing Us Softly 4 - 22:32

MSNBC Host gets Shut Down by co-anchor - 1:11

The Break Up - film clips:

- doing the dishes

- show lemons

- I'm Done

When Harry Met Sally - film clips:

- Opposites Do Not Attract

- Just Friends clip

What Boys are Taught - Three Little Words 3:10

Vocal Fry - 2:16

 

Energy Drinks:

 Today show video clip 3:24

 ABC News clip 2:38

 Consumer Reports: Caffeine in Energy Drinks 1:40

 Square Off: the Debate - 7:50

 Energy Drinks and Caffeine Not Good Combo - 9:22

 

Food Videos:  

Michael Pollan at Google

"Supersize Me" 103 min.

 Interview with Deborah Garcia 60 min.

" The Future of Food" 88 min.

King Corn excerpt 20 min

 Peter Jennings:  "How to Get Fat Without Really Trying" 45 min.

Alice Waters on 60 Minutes 

"The Food Lobby Goes to School" 7 min.

"The Edible Schoolyard" 7 min.

 

Top Documentaries

Frontline Documentaries

100 Informative and Inspirational Videos for Educators

Documentary Films to Download  

 

Professor Conversation with Student - what NOT to do...

 

 

 

 

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