IDST110 Fall 2021 (Anderson)

• NPR

  NPR delivers breaking national and world news. Also top stories from business, politics, health, science, technology, music, arts and culture.
• TEDTalks (Technology, Entertainment, Design): Ideas Worth Spreading

  TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from technology, entertainment and design, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). The talks available on TEDTalks feature closed captions in English, and many feature subtitles in various languages.
• Listen Notes Podcast Search

  Search the whole Internet's podcasts. Search for people, subjects, interviews, stories and more. SUe quotation marks to search for a specific title or name (i.e. "Rachel Pearson")
• Voices of Democracy

  "The Voices of Democracy project is designed to promote the study of great speeches and public debates. The emphasis of the project is on the actual words of those who, throughout American history, have defined the country's guiding principles, debated the great social and political controversies of the nation's history, and shaped the identity and character of the American people." (from the website's main page)
• Story Corps

  Story Corps includes a selection of edited conversations gleaned from more than 50,000 interviews archived at The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.

Many of our databases (Find Books and Articles) contain audio and visual files in addition to print material. Use the limits in the databases to view these types of materials.

Many websites offer freely available videos that can be viewed online or shown in the classroom. Here is a selection: