Video Resources

Why Use Video in the Classroom?

Faculty who use instructional video report that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom.

Video is uniquely suited to:

  • take students on impossible field trips--inside the human body, or off to Jupiter
  • take students around the globe, to meet new people and hear their ideas
  • illustrate complex, abstract concepts through animated, 3-D images
  • show experiments that can't be done in class
  • bring great literature, plays, music, or important scenes from history into the room

Resources for Video

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    Videos on Demand through Cuesta College Library Links to an external site.: The library has an account for all faculty and students to view a large database of videos (over 25K videos). The account is authenticated through the Cuesta College Website and sharing the URL with your students will allow them to view the video. You can also create your own account and set up a channel to save videos and playlists. NOTE this is a database service and the titles can change or be removed. It is suggested that you review your content regularly when using database services and links to other services.  Take a look our demo Links to an external site.