SET Connections List of Free Educational Video Resources

• You Tube www.youtube.com - founded in February 2005, it is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions to discover, watch and share originally-created videos

• Teacher Tube www.teachertube.com - an online community for sharing instructional videos

• PBS http://video.pbs.org - award-winning national programming and locally produced shows presented through on–demand streaming using the llatest version of Flash.

• Snag Learning - http://learning.snagfilms.com/film "award-winning library of over 1,600 documentaries that are appropriate for students from middle school and up. Our titles cover nearly every classroom subject and many are produced by well-known educational sources, including PBS and National Geographic. The goal of this site is to highlight documentaries that make for engaging educational tools." more about Snag Learning

• Watch Know http://www.watchknow.org - index of over 15,000 online educational videos for children, putting them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7.

• C-SPAN Video Library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary - 160,000 hours of programs taken from video, live TV and radio; indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location covering Capitol Hill, The White House, National Polictics and major local issues.

• Discovery Education http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com - most of the materials are part of a subscription based service, but there are a collection of free videos for homework help. From the home page select programs and free tools at home http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html

• Kevin Honeycutt:Art Snacks Videos http://essdackartsnacks.ning.com/video/video - an eclectic collection of over 600 videos and growing submitted by educators and students (must register on site.)

• NBC Learn Video http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn - the education arm of NBC with a library of original educational videos for use in and out of the classroom.

Video Sites with Compilations of Free Educational Video Resources

• Top 10 Alternatives to YouTube- by David Kapuler from his blog cyber-kap.blogspot.com

• RefSeek's Guide to the 25 Best Online Resources for Finding Free Educational Videos http://www.refseek.com/directory/educational_videos.html - with the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration. RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone

• Free Educational Videos on the Web
  How to Find Free Educational Videos http://websearch.about.com/od/imagesearch/a/education_video.htm by Wendy Boswell

 

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