These slides are from a short presentation given by Dr Ian Turner (University of Derby) at the Making the Most of Broadcast Media in Your Teaching day conference (January 2014). Ian describes using clips from cold case documentaries as stimuli for teaching about forensic science methodology.

1. 'Using cold case files TV shows to develop
forensic students scientific approach’
Dr. Ian Turner
i.turner@derby.ac.uk
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2. Context
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Forensic Science 3rd Year Students
First session of the new semester
Aims:
 Engage
 Reconnect
 Scientific Process
Work was formative
Overtly beneficial to two separate pieces of summative work
 Crime Scenes and Professional Practice
 Group based scenario assessment
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3. The lesson
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Context explained (10 minutes)
Showed video clip (15 minutes)
Outlined exercise (5 minutes)
Copies of crime scene stills and evidence picture distributed
Groups selected by academic
1.5 hours to work on exercise
Class discussion (30 minutes)
Second half of video shown (15 minutes)
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2000 word report (or equivalence) due 2 weeks later
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4. Resource
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5. Example
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7. Outputs
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