Despite the Mexican American comic's engaging presence, amusing observations and deft imitations, "Fluffy" is a standard-issue comedy concert film far better suited to a 90-minute cable TV slot than the big screen.
This would have been a perfectly interesting book written by someone else; Stewart Lee Allen's engaging voice and deadpan observations make it a truly enjoyable one as well.
Our interpretation relies on the fact that the quantity and quality of time spent engaging students in making observations, collecting data, and constructing and testing predictions through a computer simulation provides a particularly robust learning environment.
Momma Don't Allow, with its engaging jazz score, melds observation of teen rituals with a near-wordless narrative that gradually emerges from the surrounding vérité.
Ethnography consists of a combination of participant observation (observing activity whilst engaging directly with the world being studied), informal conversation, and formal interviews, within a social group.
Even de Kretser's offhand observations can be engaging, like this note on the attitude of a few people Laura encounters in her wanderings: "They were serious, appreciative and archaic: travelers for whom the link between travel and holiness still held".
Similar to ECD, Chapelle et al. (2008), underscore the role of task and situations in engaging students and driving performance observations.
A full case study of Ashlyn's views about the role of equations in learning biology, for instance, would triangulate between interviews of the type we conducted and in-class observations of her engaging in GAEs with classmates.
For the most part it's an engaging, intelligent ramble, largely based on observation of his own cats but also drawing on animal behaviour research and literary gleanings.
