VAST Streaming Video Available!

 

New in the Columbia College Library

VAST:  Academic Video Online 

 http://emils.lib.colum.edu/login?url=http://vasc.alexanderstreet.com/ 

(please use this full URL when adding to syllabus, Moodle, email, etc.)

The Vast: Academic Video Online database from Alexander Street Press currently provides faculty with over 13,000 video titles from a wide range of disciplines, with new titles being added on a regular basis.  By 2013 VAST expects to have over 20,000 films available for faculty and students.

Faculty can easily provide links to high-quality video in their syllabus and embed links or video clips in their Moodle class.

Disciplines covered in VAST include:

• American History
• Area Studies
• Art and Architecture
• Business and Economics
• Counseling and Therapy
• Dance
• Education
• Ethinic Studies
• Ethonography
• Health
• Humanities
• Law & Criminal Justice
• Opera
• Politics & Current Affairs
• Psychology
• Religion & Philosophy
• Science
• Theatre
• Women & Gender Studies
• World History
• World Language & Literature

 With the VAST platform features you can:

• Create and share custom clips and playlists
• Speed-Browse the video with a visual TOC
• View synchronized scrolling transcripts alongside each video, search the transcript while watching, and jump forward and backward to search your term
• Cite whole videos or your custom clips using permanent URLs
• Email, share, and embed links in Moodle
• Access the videos with your mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android)

To add a specific video to your class:

• Select the video you want to use
• Click on the Embed/Link option

 

• Copy the PERMALINK and past it into your syllabus or Moodle class