January 31, 2008

Today in class

I'm teaching Intro American this semester quite differently: I've gone completely over the edge using YouTube and web visuals in class, and am having a lot of fun.

Today we said goodbye to Rudy, and so dissected his campaign strategy. While doing so, I cued up these two videos to play at the same time.

This website is actually quite invaluable for lecturing on American political history, and fun to play with. Long time LLama buddy TDP I can see losing a whole afternoon to it.


Posted by Steve-O at January 31, 2008 11:56 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Maybe not over yet . . . he may well end up as VP Giuliani . . .

Posted by: The Abbot at January 31, 2008 12:26 PM

Tenure.

Posted by: tdp at January 31, 2008 02:34 PM

Tis a great thing.

Posted by: Steve-O at January 31, 2008 02:49 PM

cool site, but i was puzzled to see that Perot and Nader didn't show up in the prior elections section. The maps just excluded them, I guess because they got no electoral votes. But popular votes they did get, and that can impact electoral obviously.

Overall, though, its a candy store. Thanks for link.

Posted by: tdp at January 31, 2008 08:20 PM

whatever happened to reading books? damn kids!

Posted by: Keith S. at January 31, 2008 08:59 PM