"Drunk History," now in its second season, is not only a blast but also, in its breezy way, a genuinely instructional documentary series.
All you need to do is choose between instructional films, documentaries, travelogues, all those categories which used to be less plentiful.
The analysis can take place in order to understand learner viewing behaviors with respect to various parameters, such as the integrated elements (e.g., quiz questions, table of contents), the type of videos used (e.g., instructional videos, documentaries, lectures), and, the educational settings and learning scenarios in which the video learning activities take place.
While quality, substance and efficacy of educational content widely varies (hint: take everything with a grain of salt), many leading schools and lectures post material online, with myriad snippets from instructional videos, documentaries and TV programs also frequently available.
Few would argue the point, but there were also more documentaries, instructional shows, news, and religious programs on TV than ever before.
Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances.
And it was this sense that such documentaries were didactic and instructional – a moving-picture version of the National Geographic magazines that were also often to be found pinned to the walls of classrooms – that was one factor in the demise of such window-on-the-world films.
The race is part of a "Reading Is All-American" public-service campaign that was begun in March by American Cablesystems and includes TV documentaries, a 45-part instructional cable-television series and an effort to convince subscribers to turn off their television sets once a day for a reading hour.
Once he finishes the instructional video, Mr. Rizzuto is considering filming a multipart documentary on the history of burial for Boston Catholic Television.
Only children's programs, documentaries, or public-affairs programs of a purportedly instructional nature would be authorized When "60 Minutes" moved into the seven-o'clock zone as the additional network-hour program, it had the public-affairs field all to itself.
