Teachers Discovering History As Historians

Current Events: Multimedia Materials

News

• C-Span in the Classroom

• On this web site, you'll find short clips of C-SPAN video organized by six major topic areas based on national and selected state standards:

  • Principles of Government
  • U.S. Constitution
  • Legislative Branch
  • Executive Branch
  • Judicial Branch
  • Political Participation

  2008 Election Campaign Video

  Video is updated weekly and sometimes daily. These topic pages also include links to PDF worksheets, your favorite archived C-SPAN Classroom resources and other primary sources. Real Player is needed to play video clips.

•        http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/VideoDetail.aspx?category=PP

 

Multimedia News

• ABC News.com: NewsClips - recent news clips from various ABC news broadcast shows, as well as ABCNews Radio and the most recent audio of World News Tonight
• BBC World Service - news in several categories in more than ten languages from the BBC
• CNN Video - daily offerings of selected video from the news channel
• TheFeedRoom - view recent news clips via streaming media; also offers a search engine for locating available stories
• MSNBC Video - taped broadcasts from the cable station MSNBC
• National Public Radio - features a current news stream as well as archives for All Things Considered back to 1995
• Online NewsHour Video Search - search or browse topics and view the video of the PBS news broadcast
• Voice of America - searchable site with live broadcasts to countries around the world in several languages
• World Radio Network - collection of live and archived news radio broadcasts in several languages, from both the World Radio Network and other news networks around the world; recently archived broadcasts may be browsed by country

Video News, Documentaries and History

Nettizen Videos by Category. News & Events · Documentaries HISTORY ... to NASA recordings and video from 2005, BLACK BOX UFO SECRETS features interviews with pilots, ...
www.nettizen.com/newspaper/categoryvideos.asp?id=6

CBS News video brings you today's news videos online. Search for clips of top stories, as well as video from 60 Minutes, The Early Show, 48 Hours, ...
www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml

MSNBC News video, photo slideshows, interactive features, picture stories and more are available from the Multimedia team at MSNBC.com.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999736/

CNN Find the latest video news stories and information free from CNN.com. Watch breaking news and video clips about politics, entertainment, weather, the world, ...
www.cnn.com/video/

Scientific American News videos covering all areas of science, health and technology from Scientific American. ... Tell us what you think about our new video news feature. ...
www.sciam.com/videonews_directory.cfm

ABC Browseable index of video segments of headline news and current events from World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and ABC radio.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/

PBS Video - Online NewsHour. ... To purchase a VHS videocassette, call 1-866-678-NEWS and have the date, time, and title of the show ready. ...
www.pbs.org/newshour/video/

Harvard University Institute of Politics

A searchable video archive spanning thirty years of public addresses and panel discussions held in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum (formerly the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs). The archive, featuring over 1,200 Forum events on politics, policy, culture, and academic life, will provide rich historical content and context to students, researchers, and citizens from around the world.  Categorized by Topic--from Abortion to Weapons of Mass Destruction.

PLEASE NOTE: You must have RealPlayer to view the Forum video material

http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/iop/events_forum_criteria.asp?Type=T

 

 

Digital History:  Our Online American History Textbook

A new and exceptional digital history text Includes a full textbook, guided readings, documents, timelines, exhibits, reference materials, study guides, and other materials for teaching American History.  Offers many multimedia materials including Speeches, Images, Music and Maps.--links to these materials are on the left side of your screen.

           http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm

The FUTURE OF MEDIA NEWS

An intriguing visual presentation of the future (2014) as we are overwhelmed by information and it  is tailored for each individual.--from the Museum of Media History.--(8 minutes)

http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/

 

The History Channel:  Audio and Video Collection

http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/

On the RIGHT side, an expanding collection of over one hundred speeches/ audio clips related to Politics and Government; Science and Technology:  Arts, Entertainment and Culture; War and Diplomacy.   To review the items available Click on the phrase

          Full Speech Archive

 

          On the LEFT side, is the video collection.  Click on the phrase Browse          Videos by Category.  You will have access to some excellent visual 

         materials in a variety of categories including: This Day in History;  Historical   

Icons;  Military and War; Arts and Society; Science and Technology.

Learn Out Loud

A very comprehensive and timely site  which is defined as a one stop destination for audio and video learning.  Browse over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts and DVD videos.  For our purposes, visit History, Social Sciences, Politics, Educational & Professional.

Under History there are many free significant speeches in Global and United States History

           http://www.learnoutloud.com/Home

 

Race Are We So Different?

This is a new and extraordinarily interesting site created by The American Anthropological Association dedicated to various topics related to race. RACE  tells the stories of race from biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.  Exceptional Video Presentations, Explanations, and Educational Materials address many questions including:  History, Human Variation and Lived Experiences.  http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

 

EXPANDING STUDENTS' GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Justine Lombardi provided the following sites offering lesson plans, articles and video clips related to numerous Global Issues--

Channel 13's Wide Angle educational page. Clips here are downloadable and there are full lesson plans. There is a link here labeled   http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/wideangle/

There are two Wide Angle educational pages:

1.  One is without downloadable clips but has full lesson plans plans.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/classroom/index.html

2.  Wide-Angle's main page has full versions of their newer docs available for streaming including Back to School 2006 The State of Global Education and H5N1 Killer Flu which are very good. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/

Frontline World which is not carried by most of our local PBS stations has also started streaming on-line. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/watch/

A Listing of Exceptional United States History Programs from PBS

Information, photographs, documents, lesson plans, etc. for various American history topics.  EXCEPTIONAL! Works well with the BOCES PBS Collection. 

http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html

 

 

 

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