Hands across the Oceans » Movie Making http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org A Blog for Students in Brazil, Argentina, Romania, Kuwait, Hungary, Sudan, and the U.S.A. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:18:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The Story of Stuff http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/11/13/the-story-of-stuff/ http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/11/13/the-story-of-stuff/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:42:02 +0000 Dot MacKenzie http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/11/13/the-story-of-stuff/ We all buy many products and then throw them away after we have decided not to use them, buy new ones, or they break.  Watch the movie and discover why it is not a good to have so much stuff.

 

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Examples may be found in

 

What makes Brazil a unique country?

What makes Toronto special?

Multicultural Uniqueness

 

 

 

You will have to create an account with Animoto.

 

Maryam Khalid’s video – What makes Hawaii unique?

 

 

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Makebeliefscomix

 

Resources

 

Zimmertwins

 

Readwritethink

]]> http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/03/22/cartoons/feed/ 0 Movies and Majors http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/03/22/movies-and-majors/ http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/03/22/movies-and-majors/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:52:34 +0000 Dot MacKenzie http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2009/03/22/movies-and-majors/ Larry Ferlazzo has compiled a list of sites that are useful for students using movies to help their studies.  Some of the sites he mentioned are listed below:

 

Nanocrowd

 

Best movies for efl/esl students

 

Maths in movies

 

Good and bad science in movies

 

Movielens

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Gulf Film Festival

 

Middle East Events

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You can make your own movie and have it displayed here if you click on this link.

 

You will find other movies if you click on the names below.

Ahmed Jorar

Mohamed Al Saraf

Ahmad Abdulsalam

Khalid Jamal

 

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You can make your own movie and have it displayed here if you click on this link.

 

You will find other movies if you click on the names below.

Ahmed Jorar

Mohamed Al Saraf

Ahmad Abdulsalam

 

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You can make your own movie and have it displayed here if you click on this link.

 

You will find other movies if you click on the names below.

Ahmed Jorar

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