Native American Portraits
This is a video of portraits of the famous Native Americans of history: Powhatan, Pontiac, Tecumsah, Sequoiya, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Joseph, Jack, and others. However, the people are not identified. Music is "Mountain" Apache Song & Drogo's Pan Ethnic Quintet. (02:20)
Tribute to the Native Americans
This is pictorial tribute to the Native American people. It is a series of slides with Native American music as accompaniment. (03:06)
Native American History
An eight minute video that graphically portrays the treatment of the native Americans through time. Includes how they were forced to live and the Trail of Tears. No narration. A good counter point to the brief mention of these people in many textbooks.
How to Measure Circumference
The two-minute video is about circumference. This video explains that one way to separate circles is by their circumference, different size circles have different size circumference. Circumference is the distance around a circle. The ratio of the circumference of a diameter is pi= c/d. The video moves slowly and students should be able to follow it after the terms have been explained and practice.
How to Find Volume in Cubic Feet
To find the volume of an object in cubic feet, multiply the height, the length, and the width together and convert the resulting value into feet if necessary. Â The instructor uses a document camera to aide his lecture and model examples. Â
Discovery Channel-Planet Earth-Ice World-Polar Bears
This video shows a mother bear and her cubs coming out of hibernation. The mother must find food before her milk runs out. She is in the process of teaching her cubs survival skills. It also touches on how as the Earth warms there is less ice for polar bears to stand on to hunt for seals (Running Time 3:01)
Graph of the Sine Function - Khan Academy
Using the unit circle definition of the sine function to make a graph of it. In an easy conversational tone, the instructor uses the computer screen as his 'blackboard' and different colors to emphasis his points. For high school students. (07:45)
Learn About William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre
Learn about William Shakespeare and the Globe theatre, where his plays were performed in this five-minute video clip.
Shurley English Sentence Rap
This teacher-made video uses the Shurley method to sing a short rap on sentence structure and the 5 keys to making a sentence. The five keys include: (1) A sentence must have a subject. (2) A sentence must have a verb. (3) A sentence must make sense with every single word. (4) The first word in a sentence must start with a capital letter. (5) THe end of a sentence must have an end mark. Run time 02:24.
Battle for Color TV II
In the 1940s two corporate giants, NBC and CBS, fought over the means of broadcasting television in color.
Battle for Color TV I
If Peter Goldmark had had his way, television would never have been broadcast in black and white. (3:39)
History of American Literature Transdentalism
This program that explores the work of of famous American Authors in history. Transcendentalism is explored in American literature before, during, and after the civil War.
The History of American Literature-Realism
This program that explores the work of of famous American Authors in
history. Authors and literature from the literary movement called realism is discussed in this clip.
The History of American-Realism
This program that explores the work of of famous American Authors in history. Realism is discussed along with the works of Crane, James, and Howell. Excerpts are read from their literary works.
The Future of Space Exploration
A four minute video that deals with the future of astronauts and space exploration.
Aram Khachaturian Biography 2/10
Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer who lived from 1903-1978. His music was influenced by Armenian Folk Music. He composed various piano works, as well as concertos for violin, cello and piano. He is probably best know for the piece Sabre Dance and the film music for Spartacus.
Aram Khachaturian Biography 8/10
Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer who lived from 1903-1978. His music was influenced by Armenian Folk Music. He composed various piano works, as well as concertos for violin, cello and piano. He is probably best know for the piece Sabre Dance and the film music for Spartacus.
J.S Bach, Part 6
J.S.Bach occupies a pivotal place in the history of music. His compositions represents both the height of the Baroque and the beginning of the Modern Age of music. Filmed in Leipzig, London, and America,this documentary both fascinating and authoritative features specially-filmed extracts with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, performing the Mass in B minor, Andras Schiff playing the Goldberg variations, Jacques Loussier improvising on the Toccata
How To Set Up Two Monitors
A fun video that shows what is necessary to set-up two videos that work together. In other words, you can use your computer to do two things at once. Very good video. Shows settings and more.
Site Production Basics (#10)
How do you take those first steps to creating the actual web site. It is easier than you think - borrow from someone else's. this video will take you through simple ways to get started on your web site. [09:13]
