Online Video Sources

Online sources, including social video sites and video archives, contain hundreds of hours of useful video. This page contains examples, sources, and directions for including the video in a Blackboard course.

Examples of effective uses

• To make a point
• A Vision of Students Today
• 1986 CNN Broadcast of the Callenger Shuttle Liftoff
  
  
• To provide resources
• Library of Congress American Memory
• Civil Rights Digital Library – Moving Images
  
  
• To demonstrate a method
• Administering an Intramuscular Injection
• Hippocampus' General Physics, Kinematics \ Motion in Two Directions Lesson
  
  
• To illustrate a concept
• Electing a U.S. President in Plain English
• How Fast Are Fast Plants?
  
  

Sources

• YouTube 
  • YouTube EDU
   

• TeacherTube
  
  
• Library of Congress American Memory
    
• LearnOutLoud
  
  
• iTunesU section of iTunes
  
  
• HippoCampus
  
  
• Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons
  
  
• Internet Archive Moving Images Archive
  
  
• BigThink
  
  
• OpenCulture's guide to free online university courses (video and audio)
  
  
• Annenberg Media Learner.org
  
  
• PodShow.com
  
  
• Research Channel
  

How to use

• Embedding a video into a Blackboard course
   
• Embedding a video into a PowerPoint presentation