The Internet continues to change teaching and learning. Some instructors remember threading movie projectors and hoping the bulb didn't burn out or the film didn't break in the middle of the movie. Most instructors remember using (and may still be using) videotapes and a VCR to augment lectures. DVDs are still popular teaching tools. But the Internet also provides excellent free movies (short segments and feature-length) that can be used in class or as part of online classes, or assigned for viewing outside of class. This column will feature several free educational movies, and a future column will highlight examples of online movies of clients telling their stories.

Documentaries

Exploring Top Documentary Films, a collection of documentaries, uncovers many treasures for courses on neuroanatomy and language:

• The Human Mind, (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-human-mind/) a three-part documentary, explores how humans learn, recognize faces, and more.
• Brain Story examines "Why do we think and feel as we do?" (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/brain-story/)
• The Boy with the Incredible Brain (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-boy-with-the-incredible-brain/) tells the story of Daniel, a savant with extraordinary mental abilities.
• The Brain (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-brain/) uses case studies, computer-generated images, and analogies to show how the brain works, and "explains the frequent battle between instinct and reason, and unravels the mysteries of memory and decision-making."
• How Does Your Memory Work? includes case studies of a man with no memory and a woman attempting to have traumatic memories erased medically.
• The Ghost in Your Genes (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-ghost-in-our-genes/) is a fascinating, 48-minute BBC documentary about epigenics (also available online is Nova's "The Ghost in Your Genes," (http://en.sevenload.com/videos/tX02lnf-Nova-The-Ghost-In-Your-Genes-1-6) another version featuring some of the same footage, opening with identical twin women, one heading for college, her sister living with autism.
• BBC's Why Do We Talk? (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/why-do-we-talk/) includes information about parents filming the first 3 years of their child's life to document how his language emerged, attempts to teach chimpanzees to talk, a person with autism (savant) who can speak in more than 20 languages, brain scans of a stroke survivor matching the speech problems with the damaged sections of the brain, and more. This video is streamed through youku.com (the Chinese answer to the google search engine) and may be slow, but well-worth watching.

Stuttering Foundation

The Stuttering Foundation offers several informational videos:

If You Stutter: Advice for Adults (www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=604&tabid=617)
Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teens (www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=491)
Stuttering and Your Child: Help for Parents (www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=492) (also available in Spanish - www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=536)
Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers
(www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=519)

Additional Resources

Part 1 (www.youtube.com/user/speechaphasias#p/u/32/Jh3OhgYvjVo)
Part 2 (www.youtube.com/user/speechaphasias#p/u/31/5cGxvf8BlrA)
Part 3 (www.youtube.com/user/speechaphasias#p/u/30/xfqwOfZT7CY)

BrainMind.net (http://brainmind.net/BrainVideoLectures.html) - Joseph Rhawn's online neuroscience course includes videos of his amazing lectures. Be sure to scroll down below the video to the extensive and nicely illustrated handouts. Several of his lectures are available elsewhere online. Search "Joseph Rhawn" on Google videos (http://video.google.com).

How is EBP Influencing the Field? - (http://www.tvcert.com/watch/39526/) This 64-minute video features Laura Justice lecturing at the Ohio University Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences Colloquium.

The Power of Communication - (www.communicationmatters.org.uk/page/dvd-and-video-download) This 15-minute introduction to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is from Communication Matters (www.communicationmatters.org.uk/).

Christopher Chang of Fauquier ENT Consultants has created several short videos (www.youtube.com/profile?user=fauquierent#g/u) for patient education, some of which may augment a course in voice disorders or anatomy and physiology.

You Don't Always Die From Tobacco (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuh2w2sFRMI) is a short video that takes a look at some consequences of tobacco use.

And finally, one last example (there are thousands more): For clinicians dealing with prosody issues or "teenlect," Taylor Mali's Like You Know, (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4&feature=related) a three-minute video clip, is an amusing illustration of "up-speak."