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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! We subscribe to United Streaming, which contains 4,000+ videos and 40,000+ video clips. See Ms. Lindsay for the password code.
Aloha to teachers and students!
Video is coming of age on the Internet. You can now add it to your teaching/research toolbox! Please feel free to explore the many interesting options below. Many of the links are annotated, to streamline your video search.
Enjoy! Ms. Lindsay
NEWS Resources:
- YAHOO search
Click on the video tab to do a video search. A search for "mitosis animation" ("phrase searching" is your friend) will yield 46 results, including "mitosis.mov" from Carnegie Mellon. TRT: 1 min. 44 sec.
- CNN Video
Click on Video, on the left. Be prepared for an introductory 15 to 30-second commercial from the clip's sponsor. Also, you have to click on a video link before you get the "Search Videos" box. Otherwise, a good source of up-to-the-hour news. Archived for a week.
- KITV
Interesting two-step search: you type in your query at the upper right , then search again at the Search Results screen, by clicking on the video button.
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PBS NewsHour
- searchable by categories and keywords.
An amazingly well-organized video archive which includes broadcasts after February, 2000. A search for keyword: George Bush category: Social Security, for instance, will yield: Bush on Social Security: Background (Election 2000)
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C-SPAN
- Home
The video search box is at the center of the page.
- C-SPAN American Writers Video Archive
Example: A Literary Walk of Harlem (Harlem Renaissance) TRT: 33 min.
- American Presidents: Life Portraits.
Example: Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech TRT: 15 min.
- C-SPAN Classroom for teaching Civics and U. S. Government
Channel One. Leading provider of news and educational programs for secondary schools.
Examples: Report on Male Body Image and The Amazon
MSNBC News Video
You must use Internet Explorer to access the video.
Voice of America
International news from the Voice of America (VOA), a multimedia broadcasting
service funded by the U. S. government, in 44 languages from the United States.
CNN Special Reports
Great (Mostly)Free Educational Web Resources, in no particular order:
Eduscapes. A portal to many video streaming resources, such as Video on Demand from the University of California and DiscoverySchool.com (example: Designer Babies under Contemporary Studies).
- Teachers' Domain - Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development. Registration is required, but FREE.
- ResearchChannel is a "consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions dedicated to broadening the access to and appreciation of our individual and collective activities, ideas, and opportunities in basic and applied research."
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Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive --Prelinger Archive, classic features and shorts, Mosaic Middle East News, more. Example: (a small version of) The Dark Side of the Web from the television program Net Cafè
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EASE History - Videos and photographs from
American history - historical events, campaign ads, core values
- Open Video. The Open Video repository provides video clips from a variety of sources, especially various video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies such as the U.S. Records and Archives Administration and NASA.
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Annenberg Teacher Resources - videos mainly for teachers.
You can view Annenberg Media programs of your choice online with a broadband connection whenever you see the VOD icon. There is no charge for this service.
Simply select a program and go to the individual program description listing and click on the icon. Free sign up required for first-time users. To hear the sound and view video, you should have Windows Media Player, DSL, a cable modem, or a LAN connection to a T1 line or greater, and have Javascript enabled.
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Kennedy Center Archives - searchable archive of online broadcasts
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Archaelogy Channel - archived videos, many from the Educational TV Network. Image is small.
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American Memory: Motion Pictures - American animation history, history of Coca Cola commercials, Edison films, early 1900 collections
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CyberLC - Library of Congress lectures on a variety of topics. Searchable and browsable.
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BooksTV - complements Book TV, which features non-fiction books, on C-SPAN2.
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History Channel Video Clip
Archive - History-making audio speeches and video clips, browsable by category. Viewer
Mainly SCIENCE Resources:
Resources Requiring a Subscription:
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