Currently, I teach a Modern History class. We cover the world from WWI until the present day. We are currently wrapping up a unit on Europe after the Cold War. We spend a day in class viewing a powerpoint put out by the European Union that sings its praises and paints a picture of a nice and rosy Europe. However, the genocide in Kosovo is left out of the video. Granted, Serbia and those initiating the genocide were not yet part of the EU, it still happened on the continent. Even more striking, many of my students were unaware that anything had happened at all in Serbia. During their lifetime, 1999, a genocide occurred, and most of them are completely unaware. Therefore we have used the Frontline series, by PBS, which shows, in detail, the horrors of the genocide in Kosovo and the Albanian region of Serbia. Here is the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=__kbfuyYIiA However, the video does not take place in a vacuum. Instead of the basic worksheet that keeps the student engaged and watching the video throughout the time it runs, I have them expressing themselves and their feelings either through artwork, or writing. This way it is their emotions they are putting on the paper and not what I say they have to put down. This creates an emotional connection with material they have viewed, and lets to higher and deeper understanding, and causes them to create while encountering technology.