Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. Sometimes YouTube is blocked or there is content that is not school appropriate. This list has some alternatives to YouTube for finding video content to use in your class.1. One of the first things you'll notice about Vimeo is the image quality of the videos. The image and sound quality of the videos on Vimeo is far superior to many of those found on YouTube. Vimeo has all of the sharing options found on YouTube, but in a much cleaner and easier to use interface.
2. Teacher Tube has been
around for a while now, but I still run into teachers who have not heard of it.
Teacher Tube provides user generated videos for teachers by teachers. Many of
the videos on Teacher Tube have teachers sharing lesson plans in action. Some
videos on Teacher Tube are simply inspirational. And other videos don't have
teachers or students in them, but contain educational lessons none the
less.
3. Teachers.tv is a UK- based website of videos for teachers and about teaching. Teachers.tv provides hundreds of videos available for free download. On Teachers.tv there are videos for all grade levels and content areas. Teachers.tv also has videos about teaching methods and practices.
4. Next Vista is a nonprofit, advertising-free video sharing site run by Google Certified Teacher Rushton Hurley. Next Vista has three video categories. The Light Bulbs category is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic. The Global Views video category contains videos created to promote understanding of cultures around the world. The Seeing Service video category highlights the work of people who are working to make a difference in the lives of others. Watch this interview I did with Rushton to learn more about Next Vista.
5. Academic Earth is a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
6. Snag Films and its companion site Snag Learning are great places to watch full length documentaries from producers like National Geographic for free. Snag Learning provides a catalog of educational films that are accompanied by classroom discussion questions.
7. How Stuff Works is a video site that I have spent hours exploring at times because I was sucked in by the quality of the educational content.
8. Viddler is a service that is good because of its integrated in-video commenting system. Viddler also allows you to record videos directly to the site through your webcam. You can use Viddler to post messages to students on my classroom when you know that you're going to be out of the classroom.
9. School Tube is a website dedicated to the sharing of videos created by students and teachers. School Tube allows teachers and schools to create their own channels for sharing their students' works. School Tube also provides excellent how-to resources, copyright-friendly media, and lesson plans for using video in the classroom
3. Teachers.tv is a UK- based website of videos for teachers and about teaching. Teachers.tv provides hundreds of videos available for free download. On Teachers.tv there are videos for all grade levels and content areas. Teachers.tv also has videos about teaching methods and practices.
4. Next Vista is a nonprofit, advertising-free video sharing site run by Google Certified Teacher Rushton Hurley. Next Vista has three video categories. The Light Bulbs category is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic. The Global Views video category contains videos created to promote understanding of cultures around the world. The Seeing Service video category highlights the work of people who are working to make a difference in the lives of others. Watch this interview I did with Rushton to learn more about Next Vista.
5. Academic Earth is a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
6. Snag Films and its companion site Snag Learning are great places to watch full length documentaries from producers like National Geographic for free. Snag Learning provides a catalog of educational films that are accompanied by classroom discussion questions.
7. How Stuff Works is a video site that I have spent hours exploring at times because I was sucked in by the quality of the educational content.
8. Viddler is a service that is good because of its integrated in-video commenting system. Viddler also allows you to record videos directly to the site through your webcam. You can use Viddler to post messages to students on my classroom when you know that you're going to be out of the classroom.
9. School Tube is a website dedicated to the sharing of videos created by students and teachers. School Tube allows teachers and schools to create their own channels for sharing their students' works. School Tube also provides excellent how-to resources, copyright-friendly media, and lesson plans for using video in the classroom
Other Resources:
- Blip.tv
- TED Talks --inspirational videos
- Untamed Science - biology and earth science
- iCue - history and current events
- PBS Video and PBS Kids
- History Channel and the Discovery Channel
- Explore.org - documentary films
- Art Babble - about art and artists
- Math TV - math tutorials
- Wired Science - science and technology
- Big Think -videos relevant to topics in the news and in the public conscious today
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