YouTube recently launched a University Channel, and Dickinson is participating in the project. Our first video is a 40-minute panel discussion preceding a screening of The Situation, a film about contemporary Iraq. I attended the event, which took place a few months ago. I found both the discussion & the film thought-provoking (even if the film, as a film, wasn’t all that good).
I’m using more YouTube snippets in the classroom. I have these “smart” classrooms, so why not take advantage of them? Or I simply point my students to them, as extra “reading” assignments. Today’s discussion (in my comparative politics course), for example, will make use of FP’s Failed States Index & a series of short (4-10 minute) interviews w/ diplomats from “failed” states (as rated by FP).
