how would I INCORPORATE IT!?

I don't want to be overly glib about it, so I will...and then clarify.

The short answer: literature/writing doesn't exist for me without using film/tv/internet as a major part of it. So I'd use it all, and it would be daily.

It's just a huge part of who I am. Many of my cohort comes at all of this from a literature perspective, and I certainly am not naive to literature. I've seriously studied the super-idea of "literature" since about 12 years old, and I know play-writing/screen-writing and poetry incredibly well, but not to the detriment of prose. However, my first experiences with the artistic experience is through film. Without equating what I read to what I've seen, I have serious problems generating interest in myself. So my lessons by their definition default to webpages that might equate, films that better show the themes, etc. It all works as allegory for our own experiences, but film simply speaks to me in its own "better" way. As a result, when I come up with lessons, I default to what movies or tv I could use with it, or what websites would help make the understanding easier for students. Even something like Shakespeare, Shelley, Donne, or Eliot, all of whom I've loved since I was a kid...I always look at the text as one part of a much larger picture. The unsung hero to all of this is games, which I also view as a huge part of educational understanding.

So there's my strength. My default is to incorporate this all together in a lesson, and without a computer and dvd-player to help me along, I'd have some huge adaptations within myself to make. That's my weakness. My weakness isn't in incorporating all of this. It's in finding myself in situations where I can't.

My DREAM class (one of two) is teaching a year-long class on screenwriting/shooting/editing.

The second dream class is debate, but there's another story.

My default, FYI, is the honor's/AP route. Hopefully my education/background helps me there.

so that prime dream class of teaching video production and screenwriting can't exist without my defaults, and it certainly can't exist without specific modeling/scaffolding using a hundred different programs. I really enjoyed our imovie assignment, specifically the part about using photos to do it. I'd love to make that an early component: giving students cameras and telling them to shoot pictures. still photos. make a short montage of it. Something like flickr and imovie combined would also work really well: asking them to pull available images and tell a story with them isn't too far off from early directing projects i've done in early directing classes. by the same token, digital comic books would be a good primer for storyboarding.