Neuroscience
Check out Open-Video.org!
The content includes 30-60 minute movies from the early 1900s (including silent films!), almost 500 documentaries from NASA, the Digital Himalaya Project from the 1930s, advertisements from the 1950s, CHI materials from the Ass'n for Computing Machinery, and television PSAs for reproductive health in Yemen.
There are some great educational videos appropriate for use in schools, especially in the sciences. There are a handful of entries on the word "brain", and many animated films.
The search is very good -- you can limit to color, b&w, by length, and silent or with sound. The majority of these images are either in the public domain or otherwise available for educational use, but check the Copyright Statement for more information.
Warning: you may spend a lot of time at this site!
- Why Babies Probably Don't Like Dubbed Movies Either
If I presented you with a silent video of someone speaking – do you think that you'd be able to tell if they switched from English to French? Remarkably, between the ages of four and six months, babies can tell. However, it's a skill they lose...
- Communicating Off The Top Of Your Head
Forget lip-reading, the way the top of the head moves as we speak also plays a part in communication, a finding that has implications for creating more realistic animated characters. In an initial experiment, Chris Davis and Jeesun Kim presented students...
- Best Of Gary Price's Nelinet Presentation
Cool sites I found at Gary Price’s presentation at Nelinet today: Google Video I know I’m the last to see this, but: way cool! Partly a competitor to iTunes video store, partly just cool stuff; you can download TV shows from here at $1.99 (I Love...
- Technology + Pubmed Searching Tips
The University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries has created a very cool set of training “videos” online for PubMed. They use the Camtasia software to capture both actions taken on the screen as well as accompanying audio to create an online...
- Important Cs Databases
ACM Digital Library Citations to over 400,000 articles in computer science. From the Association for Computing Machinery. 1985-present. NOTE: Create a free login & password to search the ACM. ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Citations...
Neuroscience
Cool Video Site
Check out Open-Video.org!
The content includes 30-60 minute movies from the early 1900s (including silent films!), almost 500 documentaries from NASA, the Digital Himalaya Project from the 1930s, advertisements from the 1950s, CHI materials from the Ass'n for Computing Machinery, and television PSAs for reproductive health in Yemen.
There are some great educational videos appropriate for use in schools, especially in the sciences. There are a handful of entries on the word "brain", and many animated films.
The search is very good -- you can limit to color, b&w, by length, and silent or with sound. The majority of these images are either in the public domain or otherwise available for educational use, but check the Copyright Statement for more information.
Warning: you may spend a lot of time at this site!
- Why Babies Probably Don't Like Dubbed Movies Either
If I presented you with a silent video of someone speaking – do you think that you'd be able to tell if they switched from English to French? Remarkably, between the ages of four and six months, babies can tell. However, it's a skill they lose...
- Communicating Off The Top Of Your Head
Forget lip-reading, the way the top of the head moves as we speak also plays a part in communication, a finding that has implications for creating more realistic animated characters. In an initial experiment, Chris Davis and Jeesun Kim presented students...
- Best Of Gary Price's Nelinet Presentation
Cool sites I found at Gary Price’s presentation at Nelinet today: Google Video I know I’m the last to see this, but: way cool! Partly a competitor to iTunes video store, partly just cool stuff; you can download TV shows from here at $1.99 (I Love...
- Technology + Pubmed Searching Tips
The University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries has created a very cool set of training “videos” online for PubMed. They use the Camtasia software to capture both actions taken on the screen as well as accompanying audio to create an online...
- Important Cs Databases
ACM Digital Library Citations to over 400,000 articles in computer science. From the Association for Computing Machinery. 1985-present. NOTE: Create a free login & password to search the ACM. ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Citations...