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About This Data

The ViewPoints Project is a collection of foreign language video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Catalogued by the language spoken, each video clip is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes.

These videos were created by language faculty from the Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium, Inc. (The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College and Ohio Wesleyan University) and are intended for educational purposes only.

All videos are in QuickTime format. Duration of the clips ranges from about 30 seconds to two minutes. To view these videos, you will need to install QuickTime Player on your computer. A free version of Apple's QuickTime Player is available at http://www.quicktime.com.

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Highlight a field from the list, type search word(s) in the box, and click the SEARCH button (or press the ENTER key).

• KEYWORD finds words anywhere in a record, i.e., the description of the video, including its title, subject, and script.

Keyword: german
(finds records that have the word "german" anywhere, e.g. video title, subject, description)

Do not include punctuation in a search, or truncate a word.

OR: A search for two words separated by OR (or "|") together finds occurences of either of the words.

Keyword: German OR Envirnment
(finds records that have either "german" or "environment" in the record)

AND: To search both words, use "&".

Keyword: german & subjunctive
(finds records that have both "german" AND "subjunctive" )

NOT: To exclude records that contain a particular word, use ~ for NOT.

Keyword: german ~ infinitive
(finds records that contain "german" and excludes those that also contain "infinitive")

After forming your search statement, select parameters for your search results:

• Sort By: Select how you prefer your search results to be arranged, by Title or by Subject.
• Display Records in Groups of: Select 6, 12, 30, or 45.



Search Results

The Search Results list shows a brief citation for each video retrieved by your search. Each brief citation includes the title, creator, and other information.

Use the scrollbar to view the results on a particular page. Use PREVIOUS | NEXT to navigate among pages.

You can also navigate within the results list by using the JUMP box. To jump to the end of the list, specify the last record number retrieved. To jump back to the beginning of the list, specify 1. Or, jump anywhere within the list to begin browsing at a new spot.

To select an experiment, click on the "Full Record" link.

Record Details: The full record shows a more complete textual description of the record. To bookmark the page, use the URL provided below Record Details.

Get Video: Get Video initiates transmission of the video.

Browsing

'View All' is an option on the Search Menu, which allows you to view an index of all videos by different fields. For example, you can browse the list of languages and select all videos in a category, such as "German."




August 2003

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