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Anna Leonowens, teacher and tutor to the children of Mongkut, King of Siam, portrayed in the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam, a 1956 film and a 1999 film both entitled The King and I, and the 1999 film Anna and the King; Mary Kay Letourneau, high school teacher, portrayed in the made-for-TV-movie All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau ...
Shores thought a person could get more out of his or her personal drive to learn than in any classroom, and that the library was the key to this learning. [21] Shores also came to believe in the importance of media beyond books. He thought the stocking of films, slides, audio recordings and maps essential for a well-rounded library collection.
Secrets of Nature was a British short black-and-white documentary film series, consisting of 144 films produced between 1922 and 1933 by British Instructional Films, which filmmaker, historian and critic Paul Rotha described in 1930 as "the sheet anchor of the British film industry".
Maestra is a 33-minute documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, about the youngest women teachers of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. In 1961, Cuba aimed to eradicate illiteracy in one year. It sent 250,000 volunteers across the island to teach reading and writing in rural communities for one year. 100,000 of the volunteers were under 18 ...
As we are communing with nature, let me suggest a few classic texts and one modern text destined to join our conservation canon: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) By Henry David Thoreau
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat , but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too.
Audiovisual aids are essential tools for teaching the learning process. It helps the teacher to present the lesson effectively, and students learn and retain the concepts better for a longer duration. The use of audio-visual aids improves student's critical and analytical thinking. It helps to remove abstract concepts through visual presentation.
Initially, a lack of standardization meant that film producers used a variety of different film widths and projection speeds, but after a few years the 35-mm wide Edison film, and the 16-frames-per-second projection speed of the Lumière Cinématographe became the standard. [59]