Media for Your Course
If you know your video need, find the appropriate contact person in our video resource table.
How to Get Started
- Explore media available from:
- The Library. Your Subject Area Librarian can help you find what you need.
- Visit the Netflix site to see whether the DVD is in their collection. Due to our service agreement with Netflix, these DVDs may only be used for instruction in PCC classes. Complete the form to order the videos. Requests take two weeks to fill. A library representative will approve your request and e-mail you with the status.
- Search IMDb (Internet Movie Database) to identify videos and get details about them. Send us a purchase request for videos that are integral to your course content.
- Learning Objects and Media Sources, that Instructional Support has vetted.
- Open Educational Resources (O.E.R.'s) or other Internet sources, such as TeacherTube, Ted, or YouTube.
- The Library. Your Subject Area Librarian can help you find what you need.
- If you are feeling creative and would like to create your own media, see our Best Practices and Guidelines for Creating Media below. See our available tools to use, such as Camtasia or Mediasite. You can also consult with your campus IT Specialist about your options to create your own media.
- Have PCC's Video Production Team create a video for you.
If you can't find what you need through any sources listed above, fill out the Media Resources Request form.
Best Practices and Guidelines for Using Media
- For any media you will be using make sure you are copyright compliant.
- Classroom based media: See the library's copyright issues website for questions.
- Online course media: See the Teach Act web page on the Copyright Resource Center website.
- Fill out the Teach Act form.
- Have a question about copyright? Call the library at 971-722-4441 or send an email to copyright@pcc.edu.
- Think about Accessibility.
- Commercial Media: If you or your department don't own a captioned version of the media, employ the assistance of your Subject Area Librarian to help you find a captioned version. If no captioned version exists to buy or borrow, check to see if the publisher has a transcript (or better yet, a script that includes all the action and audio from the video) to post with the video. If no captioned version and no transcript/script are available to buy or borrow, you may use the uncaptioned version in your course and it will be accommodated on an as needed basis by Disability Services and Distance Education/Instructional Support.
- Self-Produced media: See the Guideliness to Make Media Accessible.
Consider the following questions before creating your media
- If movement is not critical, then still images, text, and/or audio may be as effective as video and easier and less expensive to create.
- What is my objective and concept?
- Topic Outline
- Storyboard/ Script
- Process Map (for more complex simulations)
- Who is your audience?
- What connection speed is the majority of your audience on?
- Does your audience have access to audio? Do you need to include captioning?
- What is the purpose of the video?
- I will use this video for a one‐time event. Suggestion: Don’t waste your time to do this.
- I will use this video as a lecture or demonstration tutorial more than one‐time. Yes, do it!
- Is this a Screen Recording or a Patchwork Media Project?
- I want to record lectures for students who missed the class or want to review later.
- I want to produce a Demonstration video tutorial.
- I want to produce a Simulation.
- How much time can I commit to this project?
- Quick and dirty‐ for volatile information, concepts, & project planning
- Designing and Developing Additional Features / Presentation
- Hello, Hollywood!
- How do you plan to distribute the video?
- Will you distribute the video on a Web site, blog, college network, CD‐ROM, DVD, iPod, media player, etc.? It is important to select the appropriate settings to optimize your video for the desired distribution production. Settings such as video dimensions, file size, and file format are important when creating a video. Use the presets available in the software settings to help you select the appropriate settings for the desired distribution method.