MEDIA CLIP ( audio, video)
To familiarize students with the workings and significance of the UN, have them form groups of three to conduct separate online searches (with assistance from a teacher-librarian, if available) to find archival material (e.g., archival media clips) on one of the following:
the formation of the UN
− Dumbarton Oaks
− the San Francisco Conference of June, 1945
− the Charter of the UN
− the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Preamble
− the opening cermonies of the UN
the work of the UN’s major agencies
− the International Court of Justice
− the Security Council (e.g., with reference
to a major event or situation such as the
Korean war, the conflict in Cyprus)
− the workings of the General Assembly
− the Secretariat
− the Social and Economic Council
− the UNHCR
Have groups present their media clip with an
accompanying backgrounder (e.g., 3–5 minutes)
explaining the group or event’s significance and
impact on world affairs.
VIDEO SEARCH ENGINES AND COLLECTIONS
MOVING PICTURES
Animation & Cartoons | Arts & Music | Computers & Technology | Cultural & Academic Films | Ephemeral Films | Movies | News & Public Affairs | Non-English Videos | Open Source Movies | Prelinger Archives | Sports Videos | Video Games | Vlogs | Youth Media
| Pixsy is an image and video search engine. It draws on visual material from a range of providers across the Web, thus offering millions of photos and videos to search or browsing. Where many search engines focus on relevancy, Pixsy enables searches by both 'relevance', 'category', 'provider', or 'freshness'. The source of each image is identified and Pixsy links through to the source web site to provide the full image or video. Image providers are wide ranging and include news sites such as ABCNews.com, BBC, New York Times, the Seattle Times and many more, or more populist sites such as Fotothing, YouTube or Metacafe. |
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web is part of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries website, and features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials.
'OV: the Open Video Project' is an online video bank that aims... "to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities". It contains historical and some arts videos, all released under open source licenses.
RESOURCES
Canadian drafts human rights declaration
Broadcast Date: Dec. 5, 1998
Everyone
thought Eleanor Roosevelt was behind it. Or maybe a French jurist named
René Cassin penned it. But, just in time for the 50th anniversary of
the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the truth
comes out: a Canadian law professor named John Peters Humphrey wrote
the original draft of what's been called "the Magna Carta of humanity."
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"Act of creation: The founding of the United Nations"
-Mr. Stephen Schlesinger, Director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University.
[Webcast: Archived
Video - English:
1 hour and 6 minutes]
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Canada elected to UN Security Council
Broadcast Date: Nov. 22, 1959
For the second time since the United Nations was founded in 1945, Canada has a seat on one of its most important bodies — the Security Council. Canada has had great success with its latest resolution, winning unanimous support for a proposal to study the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation on humans. Howard Green, minister of external affairs, talks to the CBC's Charles Lynch about Canada's agenda and its place on the world stage.
