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Shakespeare the animated tales: vol. 1    2004

DVD

PIJS, 75 min.

     Presents three animated Shakespearean plays: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It.  Each play is approx. 25 minutes.

Shakespeare the animated tales: vol. 2   2004

DVD

PIJS, 75 min.

     Contains 3 animated Shakespearean plays: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and King Richard III.  Each animated tale is approx. 25 minutes.

Shakespeare the animated tales: vol. 3  2004

DVD

PIJS, 75 min.

     Presents three animated Shakespearean plays: Romeo & Juliet, Othello, and The Winter's Tale.  Each play is approx. 25 minutes.

Shakespeare the animated tales: vol. 4   2004

DVD

PIJS, 75 min.

     Presents three animated Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night.  Each play is approx. 25 minutes.

Great American Authors since 1650 Vol. 1   2007

DVD, partial stream, partial iPod

JS 60 min.

An introduction to various literary eras in America and is narrated by Jane Kaczmarek.  This volume contains two programs: 1650-1845 & 1846-1855.  Only Program 2 is streamable.  Program 1: Anne Bradstreet- America's first poet; Cotton Mather publishes The Ecclesiastical History of New England; Phillis Wheatley becomes America's first black women poet; Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle; James Fenimore Cooper publishes Last of the Mohicans; Ralph Waldo Emerson initiates American Transcendentalism with nature; Edgar Allan Poe Publishes the Raven.  Program 2: Henry David Thoreau originates America's Proud History of Civil Disobedience; Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter; Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published; Emily Dickenson publishes first poem; Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin; Frederick Douglas publishes My Bondage and My Freedom; Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes The Song of Hiawatha.

Great American Authors since 1650 vol.2 2007

DVD, partial stream, partial iPod

JS 60 min.

An introduction to various literary eras in America and is narrated by Jane Kaczmarek.  This volume contains two programs: 1856-1906 & 1907-1925. Only Program 3 is streamable.  Program 3: Lousia May Alcott writes Little Women; Henry James writes Daisy Miller; Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle; The Whole Country Speaks- Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson. Program 4: William Carlos publishes The Tempers; Carl Sandburg publishes Chicago; Edith Wharton wine Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence; The Innovators- e.e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller; Robert Frost publishes Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; F. Scott Fitzgerald writes The Great Gatsby.

Great American Authors since 1650 vol.3 2007

DVD, partial stream, partial iPod

JS 60 min.

An introduction to various literary eras in America and is narrated by Jane Kaczmarek.  This volume contains two programs: 1856-1906 & 1907-1925. Only Program 6 is streamable. Program 5: Thomas Wolfe writes Look Homeward Angel; William Faulkner writes The Sound and the Fury; Sinclair Lewis wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; Pearl Buck writes The Good Earth; Eugene O'Neill wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; John Steinbeck writes the Grapes of Wrath.  Program 6: Earnest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls; James Thurber writes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Science Fiction- Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov; Tennessee Williams and A Street Car Named Desire; Arthur Miller produces Death of a Salesman.

Great American Authors since 1650 vol.3 2007

DVD, partial stream, partial iPod

JS 60 min.

An introduction to various literary eras in America and is narrated by Jane Kaczmarek.  This volume contains two programs: 1950-1957 & 1958-2007. Only Program 8 is streamable.  Program 7: Gwendolyn Brooks wins a Pulitzer; J.D. Salinger and Sylvia Plath set the stage for the Baby Boomers; Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin speak for African-Americans; Jack Kerouac begins the Beat Generation; Dr. Seuss writes the Cat In The Hat. Program 8: Lorraine Hansberry produces A Raisin in the Sun; Joseph Heller writes Catch 22; Truman Capote writes In Cold Blood; Kurt Vonnegut writes Slaughterhouse Five; John Updike wins a Pulitzer; Amy Tan publishes The Joy Luck Club; Redefining the Black Experience- Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, August Wilson; Cormac McCarthy wins the Pulitzer.

Business, Management & Administration   2007

DVD

JS, 23 min.

     When it's time to get down to the business of business, introduce your students to some people who make their living at it. This program profiles a corporate accounting assistant, an administrative assistant, an account director, and a principal at a commercial real estate services firm. Together they cover a lot of ground as they discuss the challenges and rewards of their work, providing information on necessary skills, educational credentials, and personal qualities.

Taking Credit for Your Credit  2005

DVD

JS, 2o min.

     Credit can be a double-edged sword.  It offers us the ability to purchase things we might need and want without spending cash but then ties us to the debt that has been created.  Understanding the importance of this trade-off is crucial for playing the credit game.  A program designed to reach young earners well before serious credit problems can begin.

Customer Service: An Attitude Not an Occupation  2006

DVD

JS, 21 min

     The bottom line for any position is keeping the client happy. In this age appropriate program young earners see first hand what makes for good customer service and bad customer service. Once they're on the job they learn the importance of putting the golden rule for customer service into action. Customer service: making sense of the working world.

Career Evaluation    2007

DVD

S, 11 min,

     This program illustrates how to relate interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle to specific occupations in the world of work. Based on the common-sense notion that you do best at what you really like to do, this video shows viewers how to find an occupation with job requirements that closely match their interests. Nothing predicts high workplace satisfaction like a close match between job duties and the employee-to-be.

Honduras: North American GeoQuest  2005

DVD, stream, iPod

PIJ, 22 min.

     Located south of Mexico, in the middle of the Central American countries, Honduras borders both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Home to about 7 million people, Honduras is a relatively poor country. The Honduran people place a high value on education and the importance of the family unit. Long before Columbus opened the new world to Europeans, Honduras was part of a culture that built great cities, developed written language and erected imposing pyramids to rival those of ancient Egypt. In some ways it is not unlike our own history. It is interesting that so many things are the same yet it is a very different place.

Discovering Psychology, update version    2001

ST

DVD, stream

1. Past, Present, and Promise
This introduction presents psychology as a science at the crossroads of many fields of knowledge, from philosophy and anthropology to biochemistry and artificial intelligence.

2. Understanding Research
This program examines the scientific method and the ways in which data are collected and analyzed — in the lab and in the field — with an emphasis on sharpening critical thinking in the interpretation of research findings.

3. The Behaving Brain
This program discusses the structure and composition of the brain: how neurons function, how information is collected and transmitted, and how chemical reactions determine every thought, feeling, and action.

4. The Responsive Brain
How the brain controls behavior and, conversely, how behavior and environment influence the brain’s structure and functioning are the focus of this program.

5. The Developing Child
This program traces the nature vs. nurture debate, revealing how developmental psychologists study the contributions of both heredity and environment to child development.

6. Language Development
The development of language has many facets to explore. This program looks at how developmental psychologists investigate the human mind, society, and culture by studying children’s use of language in social communication. 

7. Sensation and Perception
This program demonstrates how visual information is gathered and processed, and how our culture, previous experiences, and interests influence our perceptions.

8. Learning
Prominent researchers — Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner — have greatly influenced today’s thinking about how learning takes place. This program examines the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning elaborated by these renowned figures.

9. Remembering and Forgetting
This program looks at the complex process called memory: how images, ideas, language, and even physical actions, sounds, and smells are translated into codes, represented in the memory and retrieved when needed.

10. Cognitive Processes
This program is an exploration into the higher mental processes — reasoning, planning, and problem solving — and why the “cognitive revolution” is attracting such diverse investigators from philosophers to computer scientists.

11. Judgment and Decision Making
Exceedingly complex processes are involved in the making of judgments and decisions. This program examines how and why people make good and bad judgments, and the psychology of taking risks.

12. Motivation and Emotion
This program reviews what researchers are discovering about why we act and feel as we do, from the exhilaration of love to the agony of failure.

13. The Mind Awake and Asleep
Our varying levels of consciousness empower us to interpret, analyze, and direct our behavior in flexible ways. The nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness are explored in this program.

14. The Mind Hidden and Divided
This program shows how experiences that take place below the level of consciousness alter our moods, bias our actions, and affect our health — as demonstrated in repression, discovered and false memory syndromes, hypnosis, and split-brain cases.

15. The Self
Psychologists systematically study the origins of self-identity and self-esteem, the social determinants of self-conceptions, and the emotional and motivational consequences of beliefs about oneself. This program explores their methods of discovery.

16. Testing and Intelligence
This program peers into the field of psychological assessment — the efforts of psychologists and other professionals to assign values to different abilities, behaviors, and personalities.

17. Sex and Gender   
This program explores the ways in which males and females are similar and different, and how gender roles reflect social values and psychological knowledge.

18. Maturing and Aging
What really happens, physically and psychologically, as we age? This program looks at how society reacts to the last stages of life.

19. The Power of the Situation
This program examines how our beliefs and behavior can be influenced and manipulated by other people and subtle situational forces, and how social psychologists study human behavior within its broader social context

20. Constructing Social Reality
Many factors contribute to our interpretation of reality. This program demonstrates how understanding the psychological processes that govern our behavior may help us to become more empathetic and independent members of society.

21. Psychopathology
The major types of mental illness are presented. Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are described, along with the major factors that affect them — both biological and psychological.

22. Psychotherapy
This program surveys the relationships among theory, research, and practice, and how treatment of psychological disorders has been influenced by historical, cultural, and social forces.

23. Health, Mind, and Behavior
This program presents a rethinking of the relationship between mind and body. A new bio-psychosocial model is replacing the traditional biomedical model.

24. Applying Psychology in Life
Psychology is currently being applied in innovative ways to practical situations in the areas of human factors, law, and conflict negotiation.

25. Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience represents the attempt to understand mental processes at the level of the brain’s functioning and not merely from information-processing models and theories. It relies heavily on an empirical analysis of what is happening in the brain, and where, when a person thinks, reasons, decides, judges, encodes information, recalls information, learns, and solves problems. Cognitive neuroscience allies psychologists, biologists, brain researchers, and others in what is perhaps the most dramatic advance in the last decade of psychological research.

26. Cultural Psychology
This newly emerging field is integrating cross-cultural research with social and personality psychology, anthropology, and other social sciences. Its main new perspective is centered on how cultures construct selves and other central aspects of individual personality, beliefs, values, and emotions — much of what we are and do. This area has become more important in both psychology and American society with the globalization of our planet, increasing interaction of people from different cultural backgrounds, and emerging issues of diversity.

High Frontiers    2006

DVD

S, 45 min.

            Outer space is open for business. A booming $50 billion a year industry - and growing so fast that not even the sky is the limit. Few of us give a thought to the myriad satellites bobbing abound thousands of miles above our heads. But watch TV, the internet, weather forecasts, international phone calls and stock market trades. As space becomes increasingly commercialized and militarized, are we allowing the dangers to outweigh the potential benefits?

Electrostatics- A 3-D animated demonstration   2007

DVD

JS, 32 min.

This program explores basic electricity as it was perceived by Benjamin Franklin and other early theorists, as well as the principles of positive and negative charge, conduction and induction, atoms and electrons, and elementary charge. Coulomb’s Law is related in detail, including the torsion balance experiment that led to the breakthrough. Insulators, semiconductors, and superconductors are also explained and demonstrated. Specific modules include Electricity, Positive and Negative, Conduction and Induction, Atoms and Charge, Elementary Charge, Coulomb’s Law, and Insulators and Conductors.

How Do I Become an Astronaut?    2007

DVD, stream, iPod

PIJS, 28 min.

            Watch as astronauts train for a space mission. Learn how to make dinner on the Space Shuttle. Pay a visit to Space Camp and the International Space Station.

Is Earth the Only Planet with Water?   2007

DVD, stream, iPod

PIJS 28 min.

            Explore other worlds that have some form of water. We find a salt water ocean on a moon over 350 million miles away. Will water lead us to life on other planets?

Why are Planets Round?  2007

DVD, stream, iPod

PIJS, 28 min.

            Learn how the force of gravity influences the shapes of planets. Visit a gravity trap and learn about the ultimate gravity trap, a black hole.

Parasites: eating us alive   2006

DVD

JS, 50 min.

            While many of us harbor secret fears of vicious or venomous animals, most are unaware that some of the deadliest creatures on Earth live right on and even inside us: microscopic parasites. Take a fascinating tour of a hidden, miniature world that will make your skin crawl.

Under the microscope, parasitic life forms resemble something out of a horror movie, but not all are deadly. Learn about the minute, harmless insects that live in our hair, under our skin and even on our eyelashes. Meet the microscopic, one-celled protozoa that live within our blood cells, causing diseases like malaria and killing millions of people annually. Perhaps most fascinating about these invaders are their incredible life cycles and survival strategies. They can adapt faster than we can attack and have shown a remarkable immunity to treatment, often turning our body's best defenses against us.

DNA: Secret of Photo 51   2007

DVD

JS, 56 min.

            On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for passing on our genes and the ''secret of life.'' But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another biologist–Rosalind Franklin. She would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a crucial piece of her data without her permission. This was an X-ray image, ''Photo 51,'' that proved to be a vital clue in their decoding of the double helix.

Clone   2006

DVD

JS, 55 min

            Explore the miraculous potential and frightening possibilities of genetic cloning as National Geographic's cameras reveal the history, controversy, and cutting-edge developments of a scientific breakthrough capable of literally changing the destiny of the human race.

DNA: Secret of Life  2003

DVD

JS, 32 Min

            Enter the amazing world of molecular biology.  This video chronicles James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 revolutionary scientific breakthrough- the discovery of the double helix.  Masterfully illustrating the mechanics of DNA's double helix and the far-reaching impact of this discovery in the areas of human health and disease.

George Eastman House    2005

DVD

JS,  28 min

            Located on the estate of the man who made Kodak a household word, the George Eastman House celebrates the art, technology, and impact of photography and motion pictures. This program goes behind the scenes with curators and archivists at Eastman’s colonial revival mansion in Rochester, New York—now the oldest photography museum in the world—to showcase its famous collections. The Eastman House is a vital stop on the journey to understanding visual literacy.

Outside in: The transformative vision of Jerry Uelsmann    2007

DVD

S, 30 min.

            Renowned artist Jerry Uelsmann is a master of photographic manipulation and montage techniques, which he uses to communicate a surreal vision—intriguing, disturbing—that is distinctly his own. In this program filmed by triple-Emmy Award-winning director Daniel Reeves, Uelsmann discusses the sources, dynamics, and nuances of his bold works of art. A trip into the fascinating alchemical world of Uelsmann’s darkroom and a soaring journey through the surrealistic strata of his powerful photographic creations. Bonus materials includes an interview with Uelsmann.

Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bulling & Battering

DVD

S, 60 min/45 min abridged

            Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. The video offers a new way to think about the enduring problems of men's violence against women and bullying in our schools.  Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, they show how so-called "entertainment" is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence. They further argue that to not engage with wrestling in a serious manner allows cynical promoters of violence and sexism an uncontested role in the process by which boys become "men."

Spin the bottle: sex, lies & alcohol

DVD

S, 44 min

            Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors.  Illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, the video decode the power and influence these seductive media images have in shaping gender identity, which is linked to the use of alcohol. Nowhere is this link more cause for concern than on America's college campuses.
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War made easy: How presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death

DVD

S, 73 min.

            War Made Easy brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages viewers to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors - messages which are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of the "war on terror." Based on the book by the same title.

The End of the Line: Rochester’s Subway   2005

DVD

PIJS, 90 min.

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