Over the last year I've done a few posts about alternatives to YouTube. This post consolidates all of those resources into one list. If you have a suggestion that should be added to this list, please leave a comment.
1,2,3. This list cannot be started and would be totally incomplete if I did not start by mentioning Teacher Tube, Teachers.tv, and iTunes U. My blog posts on the three services are here, here, and here respectively.
4. Viddler is a service that I enjoy using because of its integrated in-video commenting system. Read my review here.
5. How Stuff Works is a video site that I spent hours exploring in September because I was sucked in by the quality of the content. My blog post about it is here.
6,7. The History Channel and the Discovery Channel both offer a lot of content similar to and, in some cases, identical to that which is found on their respective television networks.
8,9 Vimeo and Blip.tv are two user generated content video sites that have gained some traction over the last year. My reviews of these services are available here and here respectively.
10 Dot Sub is full of user generated content that is subtitled into many different languages. I have a hearing impaired student this year that uses Dot Sub quite a bit.
11. If you're looking for current news content you may want to consider subscribing to the Reuters Video RSS feed.
12, 13. Along the lines of news videos, all of the major US Networks offer most of their nightly news as online videos. For news videos that are kid-friendly try CNN Student News. If you're interested in showing your students the inner workings of Congressional proceedings, visit the C-Span video library.
14. Hulu, a joint venture of NBC and News Corps, offers high quality video of television shows, movies, and old news broadcasts. You can read my review of Hulu here.
15, 16, 17, 18. For videos directly intended for use in the classroom visit the Kids Know It Network, The Futures Channel, Science Tube, and Math-A-Tube.
19, 20 TED and Big Think offer intellectual discussions and presentations about a wide variety of social, political, scientific, and economic topics.
21. Snag Films is a great place to watch full length documentaries from producers like National Geographic for free. My review of Snag Films is here.
22. Google Video serves a lot of results from YouTube, but you will also find non-YouTube videos in the mix that you can use in the classroom.
23. Nibipedia - Nibipedia takes the concepts of Wikipedia and YouTube and combines them. In other words if every Wikipedia entry had a YouTube or a Ted Talk video attached to it, you would have Nibipedia.
24. Untamed Science is a collection of videos and podcasts about biology and Earth science topics.
25. FORA.tv is similar to Big Think in that it presents videos relevant to topics in the news and in the public conscious today. The videos feature well known personalities and experts talking about the important issues of the day. You will also videos of debates, press conferences, and public meetings.
26. iCue, presented by NBC News, features videos about history and current events. There is a capability to connect with other students to discuss topics and learn together. There are also quizzes and learning activities associated with many of the videos.
27. School Tube is a website that is similar to Teacher Tube. School Tube's content is generated by teachers and students contributing videos about a wide variety of topics.
28. Current.tv features user generated content about current news topics.
29. Next Vista is an academic video sharing site. Next Vista has three video categories. The Light Bulbs category is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic. The Global Views video category contains videos created to promote understanding of cultures around the world. The Seeing Service video category highlights the work of people who are working to make a difference in the lives of others.
30. Academic Earth is a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
31. Edublogs.tv comes to use from the same great people behind Edublogs.org. Edublogs.tv is similar in function and purpose to that of Teacher Tube.
32. One Minute Wonders from the BBC are short videos that explore all of the amazing things that happen in one minute. There are thirteen episodes of One Minute Wonders. Each episode consists of twenty short videos. Every episode has a corresponding quiz. Each quiz has five questions that continue to loop until the player gets all of the answers correct or time expires.
33. PBS Video offers videos from the most popular shows including Frontline, NOVA, Nature, and American Experience. For the younger crowd, PBS Kids offers videos as well. If you're not sure what you're looking for, but you think PBS has an appropriate video you can search the PBS Video center by topic.
34. Your suggestions here...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
30+ Alternatives to YouTube
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Bywifi Video Downloader is a free program for p2p accelerating, downloading and transcoding video stream from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. The website is http://www.bywifi.com/ . The program has some features:
1. P2P Accelerating：With P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), it speeds up downloading of video streaming. Its better algorithms have accelerated video downloading by more than 3--5 times.
2. Downloading: With automatically flash stream detection, video contents on many websites can be downloaded easily and free.
3. Transcoding: Videos can be transcoded into many formats supporting any mobile phones and PDAs, such as Nokia, iPhone, SamSung, iPad, iPod, and PSP.
Would you please try it and recommend it in your blog?
Exceptional ideas... I do a lot of work with our version Discovery Education and while it is excellent it is not nearly as user friendly or current as many of these options. Good reviews too.
Great site. How does one get in touch with you? We offer free websites to every K-12 school and teacher in the US. Seems a nice fit for your site don't you think? Check us out at http://webschoolpro.com or shoot me an email at btransue@webschoolpro.com
Blazing Trailers http://www.blazingtrailers.com/ has book trailers (or book previews) only. Many different genres including Children's and YA.
www.icould.com is a UK based website but it has some prett good videos on it about careers. They focus on how not what, how the person got in to their job not what they do which alot of Young People want to know. Have a look
www.icould.com
The Week In Rap
This one is pretty specific but I like it. Current events in a rap format published weekly. Currently on summer break.
http://theweekinrap.com
great post! lots of them.
www.open-tube.com
@Rose M and others: As educators, you need to know that it is in direct violation of YouTube's Terms of Service to use third party tools to extract (download) videos out of the YouTube site. You cannot use tools like P2SP, Video Downloader, Firefox extensions, etc. See sections 4C, 5B, and 5F on their TOS page http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
As educators reading this blog, you must understand this and not try to extract videos for classroom use. It is also NOT ok for students to think they can download them as well. Just because tools are available to let you do so, does not mean they can be used "legally".
The Weather Channel has the series "When Weather Changed History" on their website. They are great for History or Science classes. The one on the Hurricane of 1900 is awesome!!!
I’ve created a page with side by side on-line comparisons of the various video hosting sites at YouTube Alternatives
I’ve excluded sites that I found difficult or overly awkward to use, that charged money (though SmugMug was included because the site is so good) or that were pitched at business users.
Any suggestions on improvements much appreciated!
I hope you all find it useful.
Cheers!
This list of alternatives has really helped me get great ideas to use in the classroom. I bookmarked a lot of the links you had on the page so I can access them and use them with my students when I teach next year.
There are also a number of great educational videos on YouTube that teachers may not know about. Go to http://www.youtube.com/edu and you'll see videos from YouTube's college and university partners. Many of these videos come from lectures from professors, so on the negative side it's "another talking head" but on the positive side they may illustrate some point that you want to use in class.
Thanks for the list!
Steve @ http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/
Great resources, one I have just come across very useful for Earth Science Teachers http://geovideos.fliggo.com/video/pKDRMCdE
Mark Rollins @ http://muppetmasteruk.blogspot.com/
@muppetmasteruk
For art history videos, www.smarthistory.org - organized by style, chronology, artist and more.
Fantastic list for educators. I think you should also add wordia to it. Wordia is a spoken dictionary. Members choose a word and try to explain it in a short video segment. Great for vocabulary development.
Thanks for sharing your list.
I vote for videojug which has a huge selection of cookery, DIY and so on, all about 5 mins long. I use them mainly with my adult learners.
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