The spot is not far from the simple, Quonset-hut-style enclave in which the Shoah Foundation collects, catalogs and indexes the eyewitness accounts and makes documentaries, classroom videos, CD-ROM's and other materials.
The first is a gritty documentary-style classroom drama, filmed like Nicolas Philibert's charming 2002 film, "Etre et Avoir" ("To Be and To Have")—with real pupils in a real school, this one in a multicultural quarter of Paris.
I have seen it described as a "classroom" documentary, which, in this case, is precisely what many of us require.
The images of the absolute chaos in Chicago during that time was witnessed on television and shown over and over in classroom documentaries and is basically seared into our understanding of that time.
UNICEF produces documentaries, public service announcements, animations, classroom material, footage for broadcasters, audio features, and other audio visual materials.
In 1971 and 1972 I produced a nationally distributed television documentary titled "Class... and the Classroom" that reported on conditions in Duluth, Minn., as the schools prepared to follow a class-desegregation mandate from the state.
And it's certainly true that while a documentary that looks only at the classroom is not going to give the full educational picture, no learning is likely to take place without a good teacher in the mix.
Following the movement of the seasons from autumn to summer, Mr. Philibert's quiet documentary chronicles a year in the classroom of Georges Lopez, a humane, infinitely patient teacher who runs a one-room schoolhouse in rural France.
MTV and the UN will augment the program with a special website, free classroom access to the documentary, and supporting lesson plans.
Vision Project's educational component encompasses seminars, workshops and courses, including classes in documentary photography and digital imaging, and "Classrooms of the Future," which teaches educators about electronic multimedia for classroom use.
