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Documentaries for Consumer Economics
October 1st, 2009 by johnk
Choose a documentary to watch:
‘The Cost of Cool’
or
‘Coke vs. Pepsi’
Get the viewing guide for your documentary. The files are below.
the-cost-of-cool-viewing-guide coke-vs-pepsi-viewing-guide
Do the preview on the first page of the viewing guide, an exercise with vocabulary from the documentary. You may need to use a dictionary.
Read over the phrases for the section of the documentary that you are about to watch. These phrases are right from the documentary script, so reading them will help your better understand what you hear and see.
Watch the documentary individually or with a partner. Adapter jacks for head/earphones are available so that two people can use one computer. Play the video from your desktop, not from the school server folder. Right click on the video file; open and play the video with VLC or iTunes.
Pause the video after the number of minutes indicated on your viewing guide. Jot down some notes about what you just watched. Your notes can have a brief summary of important information, but try to focus on recording your personal reactions to the information, including your thoughts about how the documentary topic is being presented.
Continue: Reading, Watching, Pausing, Noting…
After you finish the documentary, jot down follow-up notes as part of your reflection on the last page of the viewing guide. Read the directions for the questions you need to answer, including any bias you detected in the way the information was presented in the documentary.
Now that you have lots of personal reactions and reflection notes, create a post at your blog, sharing what you learned about the documentary - and any extended connections and/or knowledge that you later discovered!
Here are examples of going beyond the two documentaries with a couple of video clips.
The first example is a connection to ‘The Cost of Cool.’ The video clip is a preview ‘teaser’ to the documentary titled, ‘The Story of Stuff.’ Many schools also use ‘The Story of Stuff’ to cover issues of consumerism and the impact on the environment. Some people believe the documentary has bias and is ‘propaganda’ against capitalism.
The second example is a connection to the ‘Coke vs. Pepsi’ documentary. Check the commercial below that features two truck drivers, one for Coke and the other for Pepsi. They meet in a diner during the Christmas holidays, and just when it looks like peace is in the air, and the cola war is over…
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