I am not a history teacher who uses a ton of films (Hollywood or documentary or whaty have you) in my classroom, but on the occasion I do, there is often a desire to interrupt the movie with tidbits of facts or commentary. For example when I teach the Civil War, I use the 1989 film “Glory”.<\/p>\n
When showing Glory, there are often scenes, lines, imagery, characters, and basic “noticings” I will have. I will often stop the movie and make a comment. However, sometimes it would be helpful to be able to type up a caption or little word bubble, flash it on the screen for a few seconds, and then allow it to disappear. Music videos (I think on MTV?) would often have pop-ups that served that purpose. You’d be watching a music video and listening to a cool song and then pieces of trivia and information about the artists, song, album, time period, etc would come up. Perhaps it’s more of a personal thing but I always loved that kind of thing and wish i could use the same tool when I show a video clip or a film. <\/p>\n
I think it would students connect more deeply with the material and content if I could open those quick little doors for them without interrupting a scene or key dialogue. As much as I like trivia and engaging information, I HATE distractions during films. Again, maybe most students would prefer a teacher interrupting as opposed to blob of text momentarily appearing on the film, but personally speaking I’d prefer reading content rather than a vocal interruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":176376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"design_bite_tag":[],"design_bite_type":[],"df_module":[176],"genai_activity":[],"mini_syllabi_group":[],"portfolio_type":[46],"class_list":["post-176377","portfolio_part","type-portfolio_part","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","df_module-tech","df_page_type-dream-tech-tool","portfolio_type-workbook-page","wpbf-post"],"edit_form_id":"49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_part\/176377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_part"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio_part"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_part\/176377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"design_bite_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/design_bite_tag?post=176377"},{"taxonomy":"design_bite_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/design_bite_type?post=176377"},{"taxonomy":"df_module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/df_module?post=176377"},{"taxonomy":"genai_activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genai_activity?post=176377"},{"taxonomy":"mini_syllabi_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mini_syllabi_group?post=176377"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_type?post=176377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}