Using Films on Demand
Overview
An overview of how to use Films on Demand. All videos are close captioned.
Using Films On Demand
Suggested Prerequisite Modules:
- Library Web Page
Recommended Exercises:
- Provide students with a topic or have them come up with their own.
- What is your topic?
- When you search it, how many results do you get?
- Is this too many results or too few?
- What is another way you can search this topic? Different search terms?
- How did you limit the topic using the facets on the left?
- Ask students to provide one bibliographic entry for an item they found on Films on Demand and to summarize the item and discuss why it would be useful in their paper.
Shelton State subscribes to Films on Demand, which provides users with videos on a broad range of topics. Science and history documentaries as well a dramatizations of pieces of literature are all available.
It is easy to get to Films on Demand from the library's main web site.
- From the library's main web site, go to eResources, the second option on the tiled menu or the second option down the left-hand menu.
- Select Films on Demand.
- You will need to use your MyShelton credentials to access this resource.
Films on Demand provides several ways to browse popular content and a search bar for traditional searches. Results can be filtered by a variety of methods, including subject, language, type, and copyright date.
Results are easy to incorporate into your research or share with classmates or colleagues. Each entry has share options as well as suggestions for how to cite them on a works cited page.
Two important points:
- If you are planning to share an item, be sure to use the share option and not the URL from the address bar, which will expire.
- The works cited options contain all of the information you will need to make a citation; however, check the suggested option against whatever resource your instructor wants you to use for citation. There may be some slight differences and your instructor is always right.