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NBC Learn Overview forSan Jose State University
September 12, 2014
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What is NBC Learn?
NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News, is a rich and unique resource that provides thousands of historic news reports, current events stories, original content, primary source documents, and other digital media specifically designed to teach and engage students. NBC Learn content can be easily downloaded for offline access or embedded into lectures, assignments and presentations.
• More than 17,000 short, searchable & downloadable videos from the past 80 years
• Content is generated from the NBCU Family of Properties including: Nightly News, Dateline, Today Show, and networks MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo
• Current events updated daily, Monday-Friday
• Original series including Chemistry Now, Changing Planet, Finishing the Dream and the Science of Sports
• Access NBC Learn from school, library, or home; 24/7 technical support
• Collaborative: CueCards, Playlists, Searches and Collections are easily shared between users
• NBC Learn is Accessibility Certified (Section 508 requirements and WCAG 2.0)
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Accessibility Features
• NBC Learn is fully committed to making our site accessible and all of its content fully accessible for users with disabilities. We teamed up with the accessibility experts at Interactive Accessibility to guide us in meeting the Section 508 requirements as well as WCAG 2.0. NBC Learn is now certified and has completed its VPAT® (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template). NBC Learn is committed to accessibility as an ongoing activity so we look forward to your feedback!
• Keyboard Access: Navigate with the Touch of Key
• Visual Improvements: See Content Clearer than Before
• Assistive Technologies: Screen Reader Support (fully compatible with JAWS© Screen Reader for Windows
• Support for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Get the Story Behind the Video (Closed Captioning, Cue Card Video Transcripts)
• Visit www.nbclearn.com/accessibility for additional information
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Challenges for Faculty to Increase Student Engagement
• Making content relevant to what students experience today
• Find materials to show broader themes and help to make more direct links
between past and present
• Need for a variety of materials to address diverse learning styles, abilities and
interests
• Traditional course materials, such as textbooks, fall short
• Do not want to abandon use of texts and reading but to enhance it
• Opportunity to supply them what they need online
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Ways to Increase Student Engagement
• Videos can be utilized in a variety of ways:
• Supplementary material to augment understanding
• Opportunity to introduce challenging or controversial issues
• Show relevance to course materials using Current Events
• Present new topics
• Summarize points made during lecture
• Demonstrate “real life” examples
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Accessing NBC Learn
How NBC Learn can be accessed at San Jose State University:
• Standalone access via EZProxy• Library:
http://library.calstate.edu/sanjose/databases/alphabetical?alpha=N• K12: http://archives.nbclearn.com
• Canvas• https://sjsu.instructure.com
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Demonstration – highered.nbclearn.com
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The videos “provide a connection between what’s happening in the classroom and what is happening in the world.”
Subscriber Spotlight: Nutrition & Community Health
Marcia Costello, Villanova University
“When the chemical spill happened in West Virginia, I downloaded it to teach water pollution and the impact it had on the community. Each night the story evolved which made it so interesting because at first public officials said they had it under control. Then they said pregnant women shouldn’t drink the water. It gave them a good sense of how a story and community health issues develop and change over time… I know it interested the students because I heard them talking about it later in the day after the lecture was over.”
Some of her favorite videos:Tainted Water Detected in CincinnatiCDC Advises Pregnant Women to Avoid Charleston, West Virginia WaterCraving Sugar? Fructose May Trigger OvereatingBeijing Air Pollution Still A Problem Polar Vortex Reignites Climate Change Debate
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Subscriber Spotlight: Internship Resource Management
“It’s hard for my students to imagine something like the Kent State shooting happening today. But with NBC Learn, I can transport them to that time and contextualize what was going on in the world at that time.
“I really like NBC Learn’s brevity and quality. Combining those two things is incredibly important when you are teaching. It helps the students find a balance between the text and the real world. Whenever I can add a component that helps them enjoy the class like NBC Learn does, I am certainly going to use it.”
Some of her favorite videos:Student Loan Debt Hits $1 TrillionSupreme Court Reverses Affirmative Action Program in Allan Bakke CaseMap of College Graduates in the U.S.Jennifer Gratz and Her Attorney Discuss Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action
Peggy Holzweiss, Sam Houston
State University
“Students have a natural connection to stories and NBC Learn is great at storytelling!”
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Subscriber Spotlight: Business
“Sometimes textbook videos have actors. If you contrast the actors with NBC Learn videos, students see the real people as a safe source, because they recognize NBC [News] talent. It also helps them get familiar with the names of research centers. It is the best way to get information to students because they see that what they’re learning has implications in the real world.”
Some of her favorite videos:Salary Talk Isn’t Taboo in "Transparent Workplace"Traveling Across the Country for a PaycheckDiversity Training at the National Civil Rights MuseumBusinesses Abroad Recruit American College GradsHarnessing the Skills of People with AutismBangalore, Outsourcing Capital of IndiaFamilies Struggling for Work/Life BalanceSurvey Finds More Working Women Choosing Flexibility Over Money
Meredith Burnett, George Washington
University
“The students view the source as valid, and that makes it real-world for them.”
Subscriber Spotlight: Business
Dr. Margaret Lucero Texas A&M
University - Corpus Christi
“Being able to discuss a concept briefly, show a video, and have a thoughtful discussion afterward is why I
use NBC Learn”.
Some of her favorite videos:
US Airways-American Airlines Merger May Raise Ticket Prices Coke Launches Anti-Obesity AdAmericans React to Supreme Court Decision on Health Care LawCrash Investigation Points to Pilot Inexperience
NBC Learn Current Events videos help Lucero keep her course “fresh and current” – she can use news stories from the previous night’s NBC Nightly News broadcast on still-unfolding business stories like implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Lucero’s “Behavior in Organization” course deals with decision-making and decision evaluation, leadership and power structures, regulations, profit motivation, and corporate social responsibility. Among the NBC Learn Higher Ed video resources she’s used to effect in her course.
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Subscriber Spotlight: Journalism
Trevy McDonald, University of North
Carolina
Some of her favorites:Mississippi: A Self-PortraitIntegration of Little Rock High School: 50 Years laterLittle Rock Nine Discuss Integrating Central High School 45 Years LaterState v. Federal Government: Little Rock, ArkansasEisenhower Explains Why National Guard is in Little Rock, ArkansasWhat it Took to Integrate Central High School
Professor McDonald uses NBC learn to:• Plays civil rights-era news stories
from the NBC Learn archives for her students, or assigns them.
• Uses the resources to introduce a subject – and help students put it in historical context.
“It is one thing to read and another to see history occurring.”
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Subscriber Spotlight: Computer Information Systems
Brandon Jones, Northern Arizona
University Some of his favorite videos:Is E-Mail Ever Private?Science of Innovation: 3-D PrintingNonprofit Teaches Kids to Write Computer CodeScience of Innovation: Bionic LimbsScience Behind the News: Quantum Computing
“Ever since I started using these videos, starting a discussion has been easier, and I have a lot more class participation and student engagement. I think of the Current Events video as a springboard for the class.”
“…The stories come from a recognized, well-known brand. When I see a cool story on Nightly News, I can go in the next day and find the story. The stories seem to be ready very quickly, and it amazes me! NBC Learn has great stories on surveillance, privacy concerns, and data breaches like Target’s. I love the Science of Innovation series and for demonstrating innovative solutions, such as using artificial intelligence to create driverless vehicles.”
“It’s always current, fresh, and relevant.”
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Subscriber Spotlight: Speech & Communications
Mark Woolsey, Yavapai College
He uses archival videos in his Human Communication course and inspires debates with videos from Current Events.
“I like to illustrate concepts such as credibility and point out those characteristics in the videos to make distinctions. I will use several clips in a class period, demonstrate our discussion topic, and move on to a new concept.”“It’s rapid- here’s an idea, here’s a clip. It is easy to find specific areas because it is broken down in a very organized way.” as appearance or body language
Some of his favorite videos:
Non-Verbal Communication CollectionIs E-Mail Ever Private?Science of Innovation: 3-D PrintingNonprofit Teaches Kids to Write Computer Code2013 Study: Teens Leaving Facebook as Parents Flood Site
“You can see their interest pique when I cue the videos.”
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Subscriber Spotlight: History
Joseph Stromburg, San Jacinto College
“In face-to-face lectures, I like to use videos to personify historical figures such asJoseph McCarthy. Rather than me trying to dramatize his voice, I just show him in a clip.”
“I also like the videos that deconstruct political cartoons like King Andrew the First and The Times. And for my distance learning students, video fills the important segments where I would normally lecture.”
Some of his favorite videos:The Nullification CrisisHolocaust Was Worse Than ThoughtVietnam: Tet OffensiveTet Offensive: 20 Years LaterFDR and American NeutralityDavid McCullough Discusses John AdamsDiscussion on Thomas Jefferson's PresidencyBrooks Beats Sumner With a Cane on the Senate Floor
“I use archival videos that support my narrative in the course.“
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Subscriber Spotlight: History
Lawrence Brannon, College of Southern
Maryland
Brannan has “mapped” more than 200 NBC Learn videos to the syllabuses of his Pre-Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction U.S. History courses. “The actual newsreel footage – particularly of the second half of U.S. history, like the development of industry, and World War II – just brings things alive for the students, sticks in the students’ minds more clearly than just me talking about it.”
“Making History ”Stick in Students’ Minds”
Some of his favorite videos:
Pre-Reconstruction:Treaty of TordesillasPilgrims at PlymouthBacon's RebellionFrom Servitude to SlaveryThe Great Compromise
Post-Reconstruction:Leisure at the Turn of the CenturyJohn Hay's "Open Door" Policy for China10th Anniversary of Hitler's March on PolandLoretta Young Announces "Women at War Week“Bataan Death March Survivors Return to the Philippines
Subscriber Spotlight: History
Dr. Ann Gabbart University of Texas
– El Paso
Some of her favorite videos:
Republican MotherhoodChristopher Columbus Controversy at Rose ParadeDebate Over Christopher Columbus' LegacyWilliam F. Buckley on Christopher Columbus
“It was refreshing to watch the videos and hear the students say, ‘Wow!’”
They thought it was interesting to watch some of the newscasts, watch the opposing viewpoints, and hear how people argue about history. Because none of them personally knew these history subjects, they can see how the perception of what occurred in history has changed; and I can teach them historiography. Students think that if something is printed it must be true. The same is true for news stories. I wanted them see how the representation of events change over the course of time and NBC Learn allows me to do that.
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