21st Century Information Fluency

Online Video Databases

In Time: Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education [Website]. :University of Northern Iowa: n.d. [cited 22 February 1999 - 2002]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.intime.uni.edu/index.htm>.

In Time offers video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers integrating technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies. The In Time database of online video can be searched a number of ways, including by subject and grade level: http://www.intime.uni.edu/video.html. In Time also provides explicit alignment with NETS-T and other standards. Standards connections can be viewed at: http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/standards/Intro.html

Mathline: Searchable Video Database in PBS TeacherSource - Mathline, [Website]. : PBS: 2002 [cited 22 February 2003]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/lessonplans/aboutvid.shtm>.

This FREE professional development resource helps teachers quickly and easily find standards-based Mathline video clips and lesson plans on different mathematical topics and teaching techniques for grades K-12.

Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development. Teachers Domain [Online Database]. WGBH Educational Foundation, 2003- [cited 17 November 2003]. Available from Internet: < http://www.pbs.org/saf/archive.htm >.

Teachers Domain (Td) is an online database of lesson plans and multimedia resources for classroom use. Currently the focus of the site is on k-12 life science topics. They plan to add physical science resources in early 2004. You must first set up an account. You can then customize the environment to suite your needs. This includes creating online folders to organize media for later presentation during lessons. You can keyword search a rich library of professionally produced video, flash, audio, and static images that illustrate science concepts. Presently, over 150 video clips are available from sources like Nova, A Science Odyssey, and Zoom. Teacher's Domain provides media resources for the classroom and professional development thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS Video Archive [Online Database]. Alexandria (VA): PBS, 1990 - 2003- [cited 17 November 2003]. Available from Internet: < http://www.pbs.org/saf/archive.htm >.

This is another wonderful online resource from PBS. You can search the archive by keyword or category for streaming video clips from 13 years worth of episodes. Categories span all of the sciences from archeology to cognitive psychology. Each program is accompanied by an online quiz, as well as extensive teaching guides in PDF format. A listserv is also available.

Standards Match in PBS TeacherSource, [Website].: 2002 [cited 22 February 2003]. Available from World Wide Web: < http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/standards.htm >.

This is a database of standards aligned lesson plans. This valuable resource can be search by keyword, with subject matter and grade level limits.