http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:17 PDT Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:17 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=439725 Sample assignment/discussionClick on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/PBS Frontline website. Choose and view one video. Do not forget to share with your classmates which video you chose and write a reaction based on the key questions below. Once you log onto the website, scroll down to view all the topics. Key questions to respond to after viewing and or reading the story text are: Identify the story and source. How would sociologists interpret the story? What are the sociological issues discussed in the story? What are the theoretical perspectives used in the story? What are your strategies for action: Creative solution to the problem? What did you learn from listening or reading the story? Feel free to add additional comments http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=439706 AMERICAN RADIOWORKS® is the national documentary unit of American Public Media. It is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. I use American Radioworks documentary for discussion questions and assignments in my sociology courses.Extensive online documentaries accompany all ARW radio projects, providing background, original photography, interactive elements and streaming audio of the radio documentaries.ARW represents a sustained effort at explanatory and investigative journalism. Principal themes include: •· Public affairs documentaries on major social and economic issues •· Investigative reporting •· Documentaries that explore significant social and cultural subjects through stories with strong narrative threads •· ״Living History," an ongoing effort to document the 20th century American experience through the lives of those who witnessed it. Sample assignment:Read one of the documentary projects series and write a comprehensive analysis on the story using sociological perspectives. These are very interesting and captivating series.Key Questions to Consider:•· Identify the story and source.•· How would sociologists interpret the story?•· Identify the sociological issues discussed in the story?•· Identify the theoretical perspectives used in the story?•· What are your strategies for action: Creative solution to the problem?•· What did you learn from listening or reading the story?•· Feel free to add additional remarks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=439712 Sound Portraits' radio documentaries (broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition) are audio profiles of men and women surviving in the margins. Told with care and dignity, the work depicts the lives of Americans living in communities often neglected or misunderstood. Sound Portraits frequently collaborates with people living in these hard-to-access corners of America, giving them tape recorders and microphones and helping them tell their own stories.Sound Portraits is known not just for its cutting-edge radio documentaries but also for its innovative approaches to disseminating ideas, sparking discussion, and broadening the national debate on such issues as poverty, juvenile justice, prison, and race. After broadcast, their documentaries live on through extensive education outreach in classrooms across the country. In 1997, Sound Portraits was awarded funding from the MacArthur Foundation to bring the documentary Ghetto Life 101 into thousands of classrooms in collaboration with the national education outreach organization Facing History and Ourselves. This was just the beginning of an effort to make Sound Portraits work available as a learning tool, a mission that has grown with the company.Sample assignment:Read one of the documentary projects series and write a comprehensive analysis on the story using sociological perspectives. These are very interesting and captivating series.Key Questions to Consider:•· Identify the story and source.•· How would sociologists interpret the story?•· Identify the sociological issues discussed in the story?•· Identify the theoretical perspectives used in the story?•· What are your strategies for action: Creative solution to the problem?•· What did you learn from listening or reading the story?•· Feel free to add additional remarks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=438114 Academic paper about how law and psychology applies to self-defense. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=622226 פעילות העוסקת ביום השואה ובנושא ציות עיוור לחוק, להוראות, לפקודות, לכללים ולסמכות במקרה שהם עלולים לפגוע בזולת. הפעילות מיועדת לחטיבת הביניים, והיא חלק מאתר בין הצלצולים, המוקדש להתמודדות עם אלימות וטיפוח אקלים בית ספרי.