Digital Media Sources

Find Digital Pictures

Many photographs are free from the U.S. Government and federal and state agencies but  other images may be protected by copyrights. Note permission requirements before using images not in the public domain.

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• Library of Congress American Memory Project
• Google Image Search
• LIFE Photo Archive: Hosted by Google
• Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
• National Archives and Records Administration
• NASA's National Space Science Data Center
• Hardin MD
• Public Health Image Library
• Washington State Digital Collections

Find Digital Videos

Subscription Databases

• Films on Demand: FOD Digital Education Video provides high-quality multimedia films for academic, vocational, and life-skills content.
• GREENR: Though primarily an article database relating to environment and natural resources, GREENR also has a substantial video collection.

Interdisciplinary Tools

• Academic Earth: A selection of course lectures on varying topics.
• Extension: A cooperative of land-grant schools sharing research and teaching tools.
• HippoCampus: Monterey Institute for Technology and Education is providing access to quality media and information on a variety of topics.
• MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching: Peer reviewed online and teaching materials.
• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• YouTube: Huge collection of short web-movies.

Resources by Subject

^Agriculture

• Agriculture Research Service: streaming videos on their diverse projects.
• 21st Century Agriculture: a short series of informative videos by eXtension, a cooperative of land grant universities.

^{Auto Mechanics}

• Vehicle Fixer: introductory level information on fixing automobiles.

^Art

• Art of the Western World: A series of videos on art history- these are full length materials.
• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers

 ^Business

• CNN Money: Short videos on money from CNN.

^Computers

• Expert Village: A series of short clips on anything from software to hardware.

^{Communications}

• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• The US Whitehouse: Watch clips of the current administration making speeches.
• PBS NewsHour on YouTube: Watch short segments about news by one of the most respected news agencies in the US.
• YouTube: Citizen Tube Channel: You Tube is going political! See interviews with world leaders and big thinkers.

^{Culinary Arts}

• CulinaryClips.tv
• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers

^Education

• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• Teaching Tolerance: A site full of ideas and suggestions about teaching tolerance.
• YouTube: Citizen Tube Channel: You Tube is going political! See interviews with world leaders and big thinkers.

^{English, Literature, Writing}

• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• YouTube: Citizen Tube Channel: You Tube is going political! See interviews with world leaders and big thinkers.

^{Enology and Viticulture}

• Des Moines Area Community College Dormant Pruning of Grapes Video
• Oregon State University: Video clips of canopy management.
• Research Thriving on the Vines: The Agriculture Research Service shares some of the work they have been doing for the wine industry, placed in Prosser, WA. 

^{Culture and Languages}

• Global Road Warriors: A site full of information on different cultures.
• Pangea Day: A series of short films to promote multiculutralism
• Teaching Tolerance: A site full of ideas and suggestions about teaching tolerance.
• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• PBS NewsHour on YouTube: Watch short segments about news by one of the most respected news agencies in the US.
• YouTube: Citizen Tube Channel: You Tube is going political! See interviews with world leaders and big thinkers.

^{Health and Medicine}

• Univeristy of Michigan: Medical Gross Anatomy Dissections: Videos of dissections

^History

• Calisphere: This is California specific, but has many primary documents of significant historical events.
• YouTube: Citizen Tube Channel: You Tube is going political! See interviews with world leaders and big thinkers.

^Mathematics

• MathVids: Videos of people solving math problems.

^Music

• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• Magnatune: Open content record label.
• CCMixter: Creative Commons music that can be remixed and reused.

 ^{Philosophy and Religion}

• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers

^{Physical Education and Dance}

• NYU Steinhardt School of Culture and Human Development: Dance Recital
• MIT Opencourseware: Videos on physical education

 ^Sciences

• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers

 ^{Social Sciences}

• Pangea Day: A series of short films to promote multiculutralism
• PBS NewsHour on YouTube: Watch short segments about news by one of the most respected news agencies in the US.
• Teaching Tolerance: A site full of ideas and suggestions about teaching tolerance.
• TED: Inspiring Talks by the World's Leading Thinkers and Doers
• The US Whitehouse: watch politics in action on the current administration's Blog, also see recent speeches.
• YouTube: Citizen Tube Channel: You Tube is going political! See interviews with world leaders and big thinkers.

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