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Greetings MED and ONEites,

Please excuse the cross postings.  I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course.  I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films.  After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions.  Student presentations would include clips of the film.

I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting.    In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each.  I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own.  Here are my questions:

o   Has anyone tried a similar approach?  If so, what lessons have you learned?

o   Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?

o   I was planning to do this on an individual basis.  Should I consider doing it on a team basis?

o   How should I assign the films to individuals?  Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?

o   Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort?  I am considering from 5 to 15%.

o   Ideas on other films I could include?

Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration.  I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.

Best regards,

Bruce

 

FILMS:

·         Affluenza

·         Barak

·         The Corporation

·         Drowned Out

·         Earth on the Edge

·         End of Suburbia

·         An Inconvenient Truth

·         The Future of Food

·         Kilowat Out

·         The Next Industrial Revolution

·         The Power of One

·         Silent Spring

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·         The 11th Hour

·         Blue Vinyl

·         Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential ( http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

·         e2  (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at ( http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

·         Earth on the Edge ( http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

·         Escape from Affluenza

·         Flow

·         Heat

·         Journey to Planet Earth

·         Natural Connections

·         The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

·         Planet in Peril

·         So Right So Smart

·         The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/ )

·         Strange Days on Planet Earth ( http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

·         Thirst ( http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

·         Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/ )

·         Waste = Food

·         Who Killed the Electric Car?

·         Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy ( http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)
A World of Waste

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Bruce Clemens PhD PE
Management Department
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Western New England College
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