New annoucements, articles, and teaching materials at TeachBible.com http://teachbible.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:56:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://teachbible.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://teachbible.com New annoucements, articles, and teaching materials at TeachBible.com http://teachbible.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=36 Teach Apologetics Through TV Shows With a $5 DVD Let me guess: You're not sure whether using TV shows to teach Bible will reach your students? You're unsure whether secular shows are appropriate for your age group? You're unsure how relevant media awareness really is for your students? We invite you to try our material out. We're confident that you'll find the material relevant, appealing, and thoroughly Biblical. For this reason,we've created two special assignments based on The Twilight Zone that can both be completed using a single $5 DVD purchase (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=ASIN/B00005IA84 link_code=as2 camp=1789 tag=teachbiblecom-20 creative=9325) and free materials from TeachBible.com (http://teachbible.com/). The DVD is available from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=ASIN/B00005IA84 link_code=as2 camp=1789 tag=teachbiblecom-20 creative=9325) and contains four classic Twilight Zone episodes. Two of them will be used for teaching apologetics: “The Eye of the Beholder (http://teachbible.com/content/view/14/33/),” an episode about a woman whose horribly deformed face has kept her other people from accepting her. She is about to undergo her eleventh and final chance to have her face surgically altered so she can live like a "normal" person. This episode raises many significant questions. What does it really mean to be beautiful? Who decides what is right for society? Material based on this episode was presented at the 2004-5 ACSI convention in Sacramento, CA. A worksheet containing background material on morality (http://teachbible.com/content/view/19/40/) can be given to students before they watch “The Eye of the Beholder (http://teachbible.com/content/view/14/33/).” “Where Is Everybody? (http://teachbible.com/content/view/23/53/)” This was the pilot episode that put The Twilight Zone on the air. An Air Force pilot finds himself walking down a road but can't remember who he is. He slowly discovers the loss of his identity, his companions, and sanity itself. The story raises some classic epistemological questions: What are the limitations of the human mind? How do we know what is truly real? Who is able to guard and protect our knowledge? The teaching materials for “The Eye of the Beholder” are already available. We will be posting a series of worksheets on epistemology later on that lead up to the assignment for “Where Is Everybody?” We would appreciate your feedback and suggestions in our shout box so we can continue to improve our materials. Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:12:56 +0100