Streaming Video @ Atkins

Streaming Video at Atkins Library

By now you’re all aware of the power of streaming video. Most of you (us) use it in your (our) homes (Netflix anyone?), but how many of you use streaming video in your classes?  Ever wonder how to engage your students in a particularly difficult lesson? Streaming video has the power to engage and captivate students. What about those of you who are trying to flip your classrooms?  Instead of creating your own videos, consider using a short video clip from our streaming video databases.  

I want to take this opportunity to remind you about the extensive streaming video collection we have at Atkins Library.  In fact, we have several collections of streaming video representing many different subjects and topics. Our Alexander Street Collection (access this collection through the A-Z Database list) includes three collections: Dance in Video, Ethnographic Video and LGBT Studies in Video.  

You can browse our Films on Demand collection by subject or you can look at specific collections like the World Cinema Collection, which includes documentaries, feature films, series, and video segments.  Access our Films on Demand collections through our A-Z Database list.   Other video collections available to you through the library include PBS Video, NYTimes.com video collection and the NCLive video collection.  With your NinerNet username and password, you have access to hundreds of streaming videos to use in your classrooms.  

If you have questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact me, amoor164@uncc.edu, or Judy Walker, jwalker@uncc.edu,.  I hope you all have a great start to the new school year!

Welcome to Chalk Talk

Abby and I decided to try something new this fall and this is it – a blog!!

Over the past year since Abby has become part of our staff, she and I have found ourselves talking about a lot of exciting resources, some old, some new. It’s been fun and enlightening for both of us, but we felt we wanted to do more. We wanted to share these resources and our thoughts about them with a wider audience - the students, faculty and staff of the College of Education. Knowing how hard it is to keep up new resources and technology we thought this would provide you with a bit more support in this area. At first we thought about sending emails, however, filling your inbox with another message would probably not win us any new friends. So instead we decided on this blog.

There will only be one post a week and each post will be brief – two to three paragraph – discussing practice uses for the resource or technology found in our library and elsewhere. We will discuss both curriculum and research related items. So one week we may be discussing an app you can use in the classroom and then next a new research resource/tool.

We hope you will benefit from our discussions. Let us know if you have any questions and/or suggestions. If nothing else this will give us an opportunity to put in writing our own thoughts about educational research and technology.

Have a great semester.