As my subtitle suggests, I propose three sections to this
seminar that broadly address three questions: 1. Why use digital
video? 2. What can you do with digital video? 3. How do you do
digital video? The first section offers various justifications
for using digital video in the history classroom. It attempts a
justification beyond the undoubted motivational appeal of the
medium, to something more essential to the teaching of history
itself. The second section suggests some practical examples of
the various ways digital video might be used in the history
classroom. And in the final section I offer a five-minute crash
course in how to edit digital video, open to anyone with post-98
Windows and a broadband Internet connection (or patience). Part
1: Why use digital video in the history classroom? Because you
can and because you should. Because you can. Until a few years
ago, unless you had a dedicated multi-thousand pound media
studies lab, film making with students was pretty much
impossible. Even then teachers