Videos

The department has currently in excess of 70 videotapes. These are of varying quality and condition some being brand new purpose made, other taped from TV programmes. All Videotapes are kept in the Departmental suite. They have been extensively used for supporting teaching at all levels .Obviously this is technology on its way out being replaced by CDs and DVDs .Some of the material will be transferred from tape to CD form. Most future purchases will be in CD/DVD mode.

VIDEOS ARE GIVEN

A title
A reference number
Brief comments

FUTURE PLANS

More detailed comments
Duration of video
Transfer to CD
Target level and age group

EVALUATION

All televisual resources need to be evaluated. This is to be done in a much more organized manner over the next year or two using the evaluation list for televisual resources
This will evaluate based on:

Images
Narration
Graphics and
Content

Blue number tapes used mostly for 2nd and 3rd forms

Landforms - tectonic, coasts and rivers the basics
Geo 2000 - Globalisation, trade & aid
Japan 2000 - Against all Odds
Environmental Action - History of the Environmental Movement
Ecotourism - New - 3 case studies Heron Island
Belize Wild On - Exciting tape on Sun and Fun Tourism
Rhinos and World Wonders - Older tape two 15 minute sections
Recycling in LA 40 mins, 10 mins on Antarctica
World 2000 very good on Energy and climate change
Weather - good text boxes with brief 10-15min sections, ITCZ

Black number tapes used mostly for 4th and 5th forms

Mount St. Helens - great computer animation good detail
Asian Tsunami - news footage of Dec 2004
Limestone Scenery - Limestone pavements etc. good
Stoke on Trent - Urban renewal 30 mins , London
CAP - European farm policies, a bit dated
World Physical - Mississippi, ice, coast, new & good
Forces of Nature - Pinatubo, Iceland, San Francisco
The Built Environment - new Australian tape 26 mins
Rio , Brazil Urban program one
Japan 2000 - older version - Wales Transport
River Landforms version 2 - new 26 mins
Geography Bit size Drainage systems, Holderness, coastal management
Older Mississippi tape, glaciers, coasts
Savage Skies - Lynmouth flash floods 25 minutes
New Kenya tape , UK Parks
The Spread of Cholera - good 30 mins Monsoon

Red number tapes used mostly for 6th and 7th forms

Transport disasters
Roger and Me, Farming, Big Brother
Asylum Debate
Volcano Man - Monserrat
Violent Volcanoes, Colorado River water resources
The Magma Chamber, Acid rain
Faulting and Folding 17 mins
Lava Plateau, faulting and oil Greece, Soil erosion
Earth Story - Ice ages climate change, Killer Tornadoes, Hurrican Andrew
Ice Ages - Wild Europe new, 50 mins
Avalanche and Landslides good 35 mins
Giant Quarries, Forestry & Conservation Canada
Global Warming 50 mins
Rio Favelas older tape
Problems in Africa 1990s dated
Thailand Population control good/dated, Cape Verde desertification

Series Tapes in original labelled boxes

After Oil What? Dated
Volcanoes: Understanding the Hazard
The Population Problem Dated
Thunderstorms: Nature's Fury
Hurricanes: Earth's Greatest Storm
Viewtech The Hydrological Cycle: Water in Motion
Classroom Video Catchment Management
Geopacks Studying Sediments in Motion: A practical Intro/slow
Geopacks Studying Rivers 2001
Geopacks Studying Rivers 2002
Enquiry: Getting Started Streams, Flooding, Reservoirs
Enquiry: Getting Started Introduction to Fieldwork
Enquiry: Getting Started New shopping centre, Neighbours, Honey Pot
Parallel Lives - Compares the lives of young people around the world
Young Lives - UN Millennium Development Goals new!
National Geographic - Born of Fire Iceland Japan, dated
National Geographic - Born of Fire Iceland Japan, new copy
National Geographic - Caverns and Caves in Greek
CWF - Genetic Engineering and Farm Animals - interesting
CWF - Farm Animals and US2
CWF - Wrecking Animal Protection