Movie Clips is an exciting website that I found while looking for something totally different. I love the way I can sort through the movies by the following categories:
- movies
- action
- actors
- mood (this is my fave! Oh, the uses--let me count the ways)
- character
- setting
- prop
This tool will be most useful when I am teaching mood and setting for a poetry unit, or a short story unit, or just about anything literary. The easy visualization will enable my students to understand what we are discussing, and will from there they will be responsible for creating their own movie clip or story scene. A next step in planning would be for the students to identify new vocabulary related to mood and locate clips that support that text.
Two drawbacks that might affect the ability to use this in the classroom is the filter the school uses, and the lack of captions on the movies. I did not notice an option for that, so I would have to either interpret (less desirable), add subtitles myself (time intensive) or find the button that turns on the captions (most desirable).
On a scale of 1 to 5 for use in the Deaf Ed classroom, I would rate this a 3.
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