Favorite Student Tweets: Rashomon
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Favorite Student Tweets.The spring 2011 semester is over, and so is my tenure at the University of Toledo. As a result, I’ve had time to revisit the student tweets I marked as favorites, many of which, because of the usual end-of-the-semester frenzy, never made it onto the blog. Let’s remedy that, shall we? Here are some of my favorite student tweets from Cinema History‘s in-class screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950). The Bandit The Medium (and her “Eyebrows”) (This student closed his account after the...
Read MoreFavorite Tweets: Oscars 2011
Earlier this week, Christine Becker (who runs the cool blog News for TV Majors) introduced me to a Storify, “a way to tell stories using social media such as tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers.” Sounds easy enough. I’ll try it out with some of my favorite Oscar tweets/snark: [View the story "Favorite Tweets: Oscars" on Storify]Storify is clean, attractive, and easy to use, but I’m not sure...
Read MoreFavorite Student Tweets: Singin’ in the Rain Edition
This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Favorite Student Tweets.Last week, all four of my film classes screened Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952), which means I got to watch The Greatest Film Musical Ever Made three times in a 48-hour period. (For those doing the math, I also teach an online course which requires students to watch the film on their own.) In any event, what’s almost as entertaining as watching Singin’ in the Rain three times in a row is watching my students watch Singin’ in the Rain, especially since 90% of them have never seen...
Read MoreFavorite Student Tweets: Boats, “Rosebuds” and The Mentalist
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Favorite Student Tweets.My students and I are now into the fifth week of the semester, about the time for our first exam. Consequently, this past week’s tweets are a bit on the light side. Never fear though; since all 180-something of my students will be screening Singin’ in the Rain within four days of each other, I hope to post a musical-themed edition of “Favorite Student Tweets” next week. Until then, here are a few to keep you going… Combining Classics; Now That’s Impressive! Battleship Potemkin, School Lunches,...
Read MoreFavorite Student Tweets: (Senior) Citizen Kane, The Great Garbo, and An Ageless Samuel L. Jackson
This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series Favorite Student Tweets.Here are some of my favorite student tweets of the week, mostly covering our in-class screenings of Flesh and the Devil, Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr., and Welles’s masterpiece, Citizen Kane. And there’s one leftover Do the Right Thing tweet that didn’t make it in last week’s list. Enjoy! Ageless Jackson (PS. To see a graying, aged-looking Jackson, check out the trailer for The Sunset Limited, an upcoming HBO film co-starring Tommy Lee Jones.) Flesh and the Devil While heterosexual romantic love...
Read MoreFavorite Student Tweets: Cool Prof, Educational Virgin, and Hays Code 101
This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series Favorite Student Tweets.For the past few minutes, I’ve been playing with Blackbird Pie, a plug-in that allows WordPress users to embed individual tweets in their posts/pages with the click of a (cute little blackbird) button. Since I’ve got it all figured out now, I might as well embed some tweets and see what happens. So without further ado, here are a few of my favorite student tweets from the first week of school along with a bit of commentary under each section. NOTE: Most of these tweets are from my Introduction to Film students. For...
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