Video and Streaming Video Sites for Teachers
See Videography for tools for making and editing videos; Science for Science Videos
- Video Search
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- Annenberg Media - Learner.org
Nice selection of free educational materials in streaming format.
- 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.
- Atomic Learning
"Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 110 applications students and educators use every day." (SCC teachers: ask librarian for password.)
- Awesome Stories
Clips and videos for teachers. Site also offers images, slideshows, audio clips, and documents. Requires (free) registration.
- Cable in the Classroom
"The national education foundation of the U.S. cable industry" publish a monthly magazine (also online) with listings of programs of educational interest, including those with extended copyright for teaching use.
- C-SPAN Video Library
"The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses."
- Discovery Education Streaming
Popular pay-subscription streaming site for educators. (Formerly "United Streaming".)
- EduTube
"A new educational video search platform ... to organize the best educational video content on the Internet.... All content on EduTube is moderated and only relevant, educational content is permitted."
- Encyclomedia
"A free video encyclopedia that covers everything you need to know or want to learn. If your passion is entertainment, fitness, health, history, nature, people, science, spirituality, religion, or travel - free video encyclopedia provides the access you need."
- Europa Film Treasures
Archives of older European short films.
- 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."
- GloPAC - Global Performing Arts Consortium
Images, text, audio, video, sheet music, and more. Each listing is annotated.
- Hallmark of 21st Century Learning: Use of web video
Short article about the use of videos by and for educators. Includes links.
- iTunesU
Classes and lectures from colleges and universities via iTunes.
- Khan Academy
"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere." It has produced over 800 educational videos which are freely available on YouTube. Most videos focus on mathematics but quite a few also deal with economics, finance, physics, chemistry, and other subjects.
- 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.
- NBC Learn
"NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities."
- NeoK12.com
"Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English."
- Open Thinking Wiki: 90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
"Interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy." Topics include Web 2.0, 21st Century Learning, Copyright, Social Media, Mashups, and more.
- Open Video Project
Half a dozen collections containing over 3500 videos from under a minute to 10 minutes long.
- Prelinger Archive
Archive of approximately thousands of "ephemeral" films by amateurs, advertisers, etc. (Includes the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge clip.) All films in this collection are in the public domain.
- 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."
- SchoolsTube
"SchoolsTube is the original safe video and audio streaming service that allows anyone to view or listen, and members to share uploaded video and audio."
- Science Videos
see our Science Index page.
- SnagFilms
"SnagFilms is committed to finding the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve."
- streamingvideo (wiki)
List of streaming video sites both general and for various topics..
- Teachers' Domain (VITAL NY)
"High-quality multimedia resources from public television, correlations to national and state curriculum standards, media-rich lesson plans, customizable resource folders..." Requires 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."
- TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
"Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers." See also:
- Top Documentary Films
"TDF offers full watchable documentaries and information on documentaries by quoting reviews from trusted sources."
- UChannel
"A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world." (No longer updated.)
- Videos for PD
A fine selection of videos for professional development from Wesley Freyer's Moving at the Speed of Creativity blog.
- VITAL: Video In Teaching And Learning for New York State Educators
"VITAL New York on Teachers’ Domain is a free digital media service for educational use, brought to you by the New York State public broadcasting stations and their partners." Sign up here. To use, see: Teachers' Domain
- WatchKnow
"WatchKnow a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos." Not only hosts videos, but links to videos on other eduvid sites. Free registration is required.
- YouTube
While many videos on YouTube are not educational in nature, others are. Some good videos and channels (video collections) may be found at:
- YouTube Edu (college/university videos)
- 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers
- Intelligent Life at YouTube Video Collections
- QuietTube / ViewPure (show video without ads or sidebar)
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