Educational Video Sites
Sites marked with a * provide an embed code allowing you to embed their videos into web pages, blogs and course pages on your institutions Virtual Learning Environment.
- 5min.com* - How to, Instructional & DIY videos.
- Academic Earth - A great "Youtube" style site but dedicated to showing academic talks and lectures.
- BBC iPlayer - Watch TV shows from the BBC.
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Big Think* - Each clip on this site features the interviewee answering a single question or waxing on a single topic.
- Cleepr*- Music video search.
- Creative Archive License Group - Download royalty free clips and edit them for educational use.
Edge* - The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
- eHow.com* - Learn how to do just about everything at eHow, the world's most popular place to find How To instructions.
- Expert Village* - Watch videos and video clips at Expert Village, where you can learn just about anything.
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Fora.tv* - Videos Covering Today's Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues.
- Google Video* - Search and watch millions of videos indexed from all over the web. Upload and share videos with the world.
- Graspr.com* - How-to Videos on Arts & Crafts, Cooking, Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, Sports & more.
- JohnLocker.com* - By harnessing the power of social communities and video sharing, JohnLocker.com is able to provide the best documentaries and educational videos found on the web.
- Lectr*- This is a knowledge sharing community where members
and visitors alike can watch lectures online as regards a wide variety
of topics.
- Monkeysee.com - MonkeySee is a new destination website, launched in January 2008, that provides free access to a large collection of professionally-produced and user-generated how-to videos.
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MTV Music* - MTV have opened up the their massive video archive and put it on the web for free.
NeoK12* - This site offers a collection of educational videos that can be found at many specialized destinations on the Internet all categorised by subject.
- News Film Online - Selected news from the ITN/Reuters archives. Video playback and downloading are available to staff and students at subscribing UK universities and colleges.
- Open2.net - Creative Archive
A-Z of video This content from the Open University is provided for you
to use free of charge under the terms of the Creative Archive licence.
- School Tube* - SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and
FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier
education associations in America.
- Science Hack* - A search engine for science videos, every science video on ScienceHack is screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality.
- Teachers TV - Thousands of education programmes on TV and online.
- Teacher Tube* - An online community for sharing instructional teacher videos.
- TED - Ideas worth spreading* - TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.
- TrueTube - A place where you get to have a say on the real issues that concern us all. An interactive debating website.
- Video Jug* - VideoJug is the world’s most comprehensive library of free factual video content online.
The video content includes informative How To and Ask The Expert films that guide you, step-by-step, through everything and anything in life.
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Wonder How To* - WonderHowTo hand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites.
Woopid - A nice collection of "How 2" guides covering various software applications.
- YouTube - Edu - YouTube's dedicated Education channel.
There are many sites that enhance the functionality of YouTube, I've included a few of them in the following link:
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 On the left of this page you will find links to many great video sites.
When using these sites with your students you have 2 main options:
Option 1
Put a link to the video you want students to view - this is useful if you have many videos that you would like students to watch on one page or if you are emailing them a suggested "watch list".
e.g. This is a link to a video <- click the link to watch the video.
This is not recommended if you want your students to watch the video within the context of your other notes, as it will take them away from your document/web page/VLE and also present them with a very tempting "search box" where they can go looking for other, more interesting videos...
Option 2
Embed the video directly onto your web page/VLE course - this is useful if there are only one or two videos per page that you would like your students to see.
e.g. Here I have embedded a video directly into this web page:
"Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. "
This works much better than a link, as the video is presented 'in context' of everything else - you can watch it without leaving the page.
Not all video sites will let you embed videos, to make your life easier I have starred (*) those sites that do let you do this in the list on the left.
Please note that you should consult your E-learning support team to find out how you can embed videos into your institutions VLE, blog or website if you do not already know how to do so.
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