Video Resources

Academic Earth
Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars. Includes the following subject areas: astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, English, entrepreneurship, history, law, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology and religion.

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American History in Video
See history in the making. There are 622 newsreels today and more are being added all the time. The only online source for the entire series of both United News and Universal Newsreel, this collection lets you see events as they happened and as they were packaged and interpreted by commentators of the day. Also included in this collection are 350 high-quality documentaries from The History Channel® and other leading video producers.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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Counseling and Therapy in Video
This online collection is ideal for the subject areas of social work, psychology, education, and other helping professions. It includes hundreds of hours of streaming video content, led by leading psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academics in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The database includes therapy sessions, training videos, demonstrations, case consultations, lectures, discussions, and workshops plus dozens of discussion guides.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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Dance in Video
This resource provides streaming videos of over 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the twentieth century. Providing the visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis, students and researchers can at last discover and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft. Offering more than 500 hours of streaming video, the collection covers ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of twentieth-century dance styles.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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INTELECOM Online
The user name for use of this streaming video database is: swosu and he password is dx1u0k8. A hosted and supported digital repository of academic video clips provides support for online, hybrid and face-to-face classes. The database includes the following subject areas: adult basic education, allied health, anatomy, biological sciences, business, civic education, earth sciences, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnic studies, family and consumer science, health, history, linguistics, oceanography, philosophy, physical education, physics, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, and urban studies. New content is added on an ongoing basis.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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Lynda.com Online Training Library
Use Lynda.com to learn the latest tools and techniques in digital media, design, and development. Video tutorials show you how to use programs such as MS Office 2007, Acrobat, Flash, Photoshop, Quicken, QuickBooks, and many other programs. There are also videos on how to use popular web sites such as Google and eBay.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
• Off-campus users must have a high speed internet connection and QuickTime v7.5 (or higher) to watch the tutorials.
• Number of simultaneous users: 1

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

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Opera in Video
This resource offers more than 500 hours of streaming video. Classic performances from the top opera companies and documentaries on specific operas, composers, and companies cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the twentieth century. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
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ResearchChannel
ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public. Explore more than 3,500 video titles available online in these subject areas: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Computer Science and Engineering, Health and Medicine, K-12 and Education, Sciences, and Social Sciences.

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Teacher Tube
TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of college courses. The website contains over 26,000 videos. The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos.

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Theatre in Video
This resource contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video. These definitive performances by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
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Wired.MD
Wired.MD provides online videos and full-text materials that are useful for patient education and, for the healthcare student, developing better understanding of common medical procedures and the treatment of many common disorders and diseases.

• Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.

YouTube EDU
Videos from over one hundred college and university partners.

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Yovisto
Yovisto is a worldwide video search engine for educational video content, including content from many countries and languages. Yovisto allows searching within videos. There are many other features like: tagging, adding comments, discussing, interaction with other users, uploading videos and organising your videos, etc. Each individual will need to set up a free account with yovisto.

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