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London
European Capitals
This DVD offers a clearly structured overview of the bustling city on the Thames. The students are to realise that the geographical situation of London in the centre of the island state is decisive both for its climate and its special historical and political significance within Europe. Today London has become one of the most expensive cities of the world and plays a major role in international banking. The DVD presents the metropolis in all its facets. Impressi- ve pictures illustrate the cultural highlights of the city on the Thames, views of the colourful street life allow the students to participate in London’s everyday life. The city’s historical monuments, multicultural Soho, Hyde Park or the tube – this DVD invites us on an exciting tour through the lively metropolis. The DVD is divided into six didactic units which can be individually accessed and worked on via the DVD menu. Furthermore, the menu offers additional pictures and text material.
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Curriculum-centred and oriented towards educational standards
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Podcasting
Today, the use of new media has become a matter of course not only in everyday life – schools and teaching, too, benefit from the new technologies and methods, which support active and independent learning. Especially in computer science, ethics and language courses but also in all other subjects, modern media are a valuable pedagogic and didactic asset. This DVD uses the example of podcasts to demonstrate how the possibilities opened up by new media can be applied in the classroom and how the pupils can be taught to handle them in a competent and target-oriented manner. The film is aimed at supporting the use of podcasts at school and encourages making them. This also requires the ability to find information on the Internet and assess it. The film informs on the functionality of podcasts and technical background as well as on the teaching and learning possibilities offered by podcasts – ranging from specific contents to superordinate learning targets such as the advancement of creativity and team spirit. The DVD is a useful support for teachers applying new media and wishing to show their pupils how to handle Running Time: 20:29 ms them in a sensible way.
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Blogging
The weblog or blog, for short, as a medium is not much older than this century. Blogs came into being in the World Wide Web as ’messages from below’, as web pages from web creators who wanted to share their view of the world with the world. They are short notes, long texts, pictures, videos, which are posted loosely and at random intervals to the world for an undefined public.