Election.tv: Election 2008, candidate videos and profiles, Your Voice, Your Vote

Election.tv: Election 2008, candidate videos and profiles, Your Voice, Your Vote

Want to do something with American politics? Check this out. This is a collection of videos of 2008 candidates speaking on campaign issues.

Of course they don't say much, but, hey, they're politicians ;-)

If you can't find a topic to discuss in here and some sort of research project, you're just not thinking.

Have fun.

Dan

Net Neutrality - Plain English

Net Neutrality - Plain English

I'm obviously on a video roll today :) I think that this is the same guy behind the other videos. This one is a very different format (TV news editorial), but just as effective.

For those of you who don't know about Net Neutrality, this is a good explanation. I won't get too much into it, because I don't want to politicize the class, but this is a good (very biased) introduction.

Dan

Humanity Lobotomy - Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

This is a very interesting video on "Net Neutrality". If you don't know anything about it, look it up. This is the classic battle between freedom of information and governmental/corporate control of information. Attacks on this norm could kill innovation in online.


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Fantasy Congress - Where People Play Politics!

This was just too cool not to pass on. Most of you are likely famililar with Fantasy Football. Well, this is Fantasy Congress. You get to pick 4 congresspeople (is that the right gender neutral plural form?) to be on your "team". You then get points based on how much of their legislation gets passed, which is weighted differently based on some criteria that I don't know.

This would be great with any civics class, but would also be neat for a topical lesson on American politics for a language class. Even for foreign languages, there's nothing your students will have to do more of in a foreign country than talk about American politics :)