Video and Streaming Video Sites for Teachers
See Videography for tools for making and editing videos.
- Annenberg Media - Learner.org
Nice selection of free educational materials in streaming format.
- AOL Video
Search engine for audio and video files.
- At Google Talks
Recordings of talks ranging from around 30 minutes to over an hour long. Categories include Candidates@Google (recently popular) and Authors@Google (by far the largest category) among others.
- Bookless Learning: Streaming Video
Short videos for teachers on a variety of topics. More material is available with paid registration at the Bookless Learning main site.
- Discovery Education Streaming
Popular pay-subscription streaming site for educators. (Formerly "United Streaming".)
- EdVideo Online (PowerMediaPlus)
Allows teachers to "set up classes to organize media, lesson plans, assignments, and quizzes and to share learning tools with your students."
SCCHS Teachers, check with librarian for account setup instructions.
- Film Clips Online
"Film Clips presents short scenes from major motion pictures for use as teaching resources."
- Free Documentaries.org
"At Freedocumentaries.org, you can stream interesting and provocative documentary films for free!"
- The Futures Channel
"Founded in 1999 with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today’s learners who will one day succeed them."
- GodTube
Like YouTube but specifically for religious videos.
- GloPAC - Global Performing Arts Consortium
Images, text, audio, video, sheet music, and more. Each listing is annotated.
- Google: National Archives Videos
Google is making more than a hundred archival videos from the National Archives available to the public.
- Hallmark of 21st Century Learning: Use of web video
Short article about the use of videos by and for educators. Includes links.
- HotChalk
"From historic footage to the latest events, NBC News and HotChalk will help you bring the real world into your classroom in a safe, secure online environment built with you and your students in mind." Includes archives, current events, special collections, forums, lesson plans, and more.
- iBiblio
Extensive index of freely available information and archives on the internet.
- Internet Archive: Prelinger Archive
Archive of approximately 4,000 "ephemeral" films by amateurs, advertisers, etc. (Includes the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge clip.) All films in this collection are in the public domain.
- Library of Congress, Teachers Page
Audio, graphics, maps, and video collections; lesson plans, and other learning materials.
- Merlot
Indexed listings of AV materials for higher education. Includes reviews, annotations.
- Open Video Project
Half a dozen collections containing over 3500 videos from under a minute to 10 minutes long.
- Research Channel
Lectures, talks, speeches, etc. from academic institutions, meetings, and symposiums, available in their entirety at no cost online.
- SchoolTube
"SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations."
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- Streaming Video Resources
List of subscription and free streaming video sites for teachers from the Springfield Township High School Virtual Library.
- Teachers' Domain
"Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development" available with free registration.
- TeachersTV
Besides offering digital TV for teachers through various providers, this organization also provides around 1500 online videos plus lesson plans, worksheets, and other materials.
- TeacherTube
Free site for teachers to share, find, and download videos made by and for educators.
- Teaching and Learning with Streaming
"Explore faculty success stories and tips for using streaming media in enhancing teaching and learning in the classroom and online."
- Videos for PD
A fine selection of videos for professional development from Wesley Freyer's Moving at the Speed of Creativity blog.
