Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Site Has Moved to New Home Page

As of August 2010, this web page is no longer being maintained on Blogger. For the most current listings, please visit the Environmental Studies Films site at the Woodruff Library. I have moved and updated most of the content to the new site.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Where to learn about the latest documentaries?

ECOCINEMA Another source of some international documentaries.

Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival Georgia's very own film festival.

Other distributors include: Amazon, PBS, History Channel, National Geographic, and BBC America.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Using Science Fiction Films in the Classroom

Firooznia, F. (2006). Giant ants and walking plants: Using science
fiction to teach a writing-intensive, lab-based biology class for
nonmajors
. Journal of College Science Teaching, 35(5), 26-31.

Films were used to teach the scientific method in a laboratory course.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Media Literacy - Class activities

Jordan Rose from the Center for Science Education told me about this great site: PBS Teachers - Media Literacy. I think the activities under the sections "Science & Technology" and "Health and Fitness" are good and relevant for college students.

Topics discussed include natural disasters, science fiction movies, and anthropomorphism of nature.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Katrina Hurricane film list

Browse this list of Hurricane Katrina films and news clips.

Rent or Buy?

The library policy is to try to buy a film instead of renting a film. Please send Kristan the titles you want to use in your class.

If the library cannot purchase the title, we may be able to rent it. The Music & Media Library has a film rental service to support courses in Emory College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. To initiate the rental process, instructors should fill out a Rental-Film Request Form and deliver it to the Heilbrun Music & Media Library at least four weeks in advance. Please note that the library can only rent films currently in commercial distribution in the US.

Charges: For each title, the library pays up to $100 of the rental fee. The sponsoring department pays any additional amount.

Public Showings

The library owns some films that were purchased with public-performance licenses and therefore can be shown outside the classroom. Contact James Steffen at the Music and Media Library at 7-8107 or steffen.james@gmail.com to see if the film you plan to show has public performance rights.

Departments wishing to sponsor showings which are not intended for a particular class should make their own rental arrangements. The Music & Media Library staff can provide information about vendors and procedures.

How do other universities handle this? See Showing Films at Harvard