Video Resources
Kids Tube http://kidstube.com/ Excellent filtered site for kids' videos.
Explore http://explore.org/education/ Great site, similar to Discovery Streaming for educational video. Users can either view on the web or download.
Do Lecture http://www.dolectures.com/ These videos are like TED Talk videos, inspiring talks from people who are changing the world. Do Lectures are a great place to find inspiration and new ideas for the classroom. Many of the videos connect today's real world with curriculum topics. Embed code available.
Zane Education http://www.zaneeducation.com/ Over 1,500 on-demand subtitled videos teach 250 curriculum topics across 12 subjects in K-12. Videos are subtitled to help develop your child's reading literacy skills. Over 250 interactive multiple-choice quizzes enable students to test themselves after each topic to monitor progress.
iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ Content on iTunes U is accessible through iTunes. Students and teachers can download iTunes U audio and video offerings one at a time or subscribe to entire courses and have new items download automatically as soon as they become available.
Google Video http://video.google.com/
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Qwiki A very new (alpha) site that brings an innovative twist on video experience. While the content is still growing, one can't help but notice that amount of promise that is shown here.
Snag Learning An interesting site that brings documentary-style films to engage students in discussion and classroom participation.
Hulu http://www.hulu.com/ An online video service that offers hit TV shows.
Neok12 http://www.neok12.com/ This incredible site is a database of videos on an abundance of topics! They are arranged by topic and very easy to access. The general subjects include physical science, life science, earth and space, social studies, math, English, and the human body. Each of the subjects includes 10+ topics. Each of the topics includes countless videos. You truly have to see this collection to believe it! There are lessons “ready to go” on video: Civil Rights Movement, Ice Age, Allergies, Subtracting Negative Numbers, Electricity, and MANY others. Brain games, quiz games, and interactive diagrams. NOTE: Although the videos are listed on this site, they actually “live” elsewhere on the Internet, so some videos may be blocked (those on YouTube, for example). Always pretest to be sure the video you hope to use is accessible at school!
Watch Know http://www.watchknow.org Short for "You Watch, You Know," this is a free site that organizes small video clips to help with the understanding of a variety of topics in subject areas. WatchKnow has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing 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. Registration is not required to view the videos. Creating and saving videos to the site, as well as commenting, require registration.
Movieclips http://movieclips.com/ Looking for short movie clips that you can view at school and use to teach something? Check out Movieclips. Thousands of short clips are available free and without registration at this site (not Disney!). Get a quick idea of the content by clicking on the Movies menu. You can make any clip display full screen using the small icon in the lower right.