Video

= ** Video Storage Sites ** =

= = **YouTube** __@http://www.youtube.com Create your own videos then upload them to YouTube to share with others. Search YouTube for many curriculum connections and tutorials.__

__@http://www.ted.com__ TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.
 * TedTalks**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.schooltube.com| http://www.schooltube.com]]__ SchoolTube.com is the nation's largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing webster that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations.
 * SchoolTube**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.teachertube.com| http://www.teachertube.com]]__ Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
 * TeacherTube**

__@http://www.teachertube.com__ Through engaging videos practical resources and an active online community, Teachers TV supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field. Instant access to up to date professional development videos and resources.Learn from other education professionals by going inside their classrooms and into their schools. Save time with practical tips, lesson ideas and classroom resources. Help across the year to meet classroom targets and achieve personal goals. Keep informed with content covering the latest developments in the education agenda. In addition to the website, Teachers TV programmes are available on the TV Channel on Sky 880, Virgin Media 240, Freesat 650 and Freeview 88 (4-6pm) and, most recently, through iTunesU.
 * TeacherTV**

__@http://blip.tv__ We're the next generation television network. We've been leveling the playing field for independent shows since May 11, 2005. Independent show creators are great at making content. We're great at technology, business development, distribution and advertising sales. It's a match made in heaven. We believe in Total audience potential. Every show has one. It's impossible to gather your Total Potential Audience in any one place. That's why blip.tv distributes your show everywhere. Here are some great examples, of presentations from the K12 Online conference. http://wiki.k12onlineconference.org/home/for-participants/2009-schedule
 * Blip.TV**

__@http://www.sqooltube.com/__ Free videos for K-8, suporting quality online learning opportunities.
 * Sqooltube**

__@http://www.viddler.com__ Upload as many videos as you want—you get nearly unlimited space with Viddler. Record videos directly to the site using your webcam!. Post comments and tags at specific points in the video. Share your videos with RSS and iTunes. Keep your money! We are 100% free!
 * Viddler**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.howstuffworks.com| http://www.howstuffworks.com]]__ is a product of Discovery Communications. On How Stuff Works you can find text information, videos, audio, and maps about almost any topic. Most of the videos are short, under ten minutes, but very educational.
 * How Stuff Works**

__@http://www.history.com__ offers a lot of content similar to and, in some cases, identical to that which is found on their television networks.
 * History Channel**

__@http://dsc.discovery.com__ offer a lot of content similar to and, in some cases, identical to that which is found on their television networks. CNN Student News http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/ For news videos that are kid-friendly.
 * Discovery Channel**

__@http://www.c-spanvideo.org__ the inner workings of Congressional proceedings
 * C-Span video library**

__@http://hulu.com__ a joint venture of NBC and News Corps, offers high quality video of television shows, movies, and old news broadcasts.
 * Hulu**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/index.php| http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/index.php]]__ Our Free Educational Movies bring your student on a fun and interactive journey through the world around us. Each movie begins by introducing students to the topics that they will be learning about, and ends with an online quiz. In order to successfully complete each online video, your student must watch, and then successfully answer the quiz questions with 80% or higher accuracy. Students who do not obtain 80% comprehension will be instructed to watch the movie a second time, and then again try to answer the quiz questions.
 * Kids Know It Network**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.thefutureschannel.com| http://www.thefutureschannel.com]]__ 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.
 * The Futures Channel**

__@http://www.science-tube.com__ Science Tube is your source for all cool science stuff.
 * ScienceTube**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.mathatube.com| http://www.mathatube.com]]__ Dedicated to those parents who are struggling to help their kids in Math. It’s a free website of teacher and student-made short videos for learners everywhere. Math-A-Tube believes a strong-short video could save students days and weeks of frustration by providing a variety of presentations on the topics that give them trouble.
 * Math-A-Tube**

__@http://snagfilms.com__ is a great place to watch full length documentaries from producers like National Geographic for free.
 * Snag Films**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://video.google.com| http://video.google.com]]__ has many of the same videos as YouTube, but also has non-YouTube videos in the mix that you can use in the classroom.
 * Google Video**

__@http://nibipedia.com__ Nibipedia is an online educational video database of high-quality content that grows in value through community collaboration. Built using a wiki-like construct, members of the Nibipedia community annotate and share Nibipedia videos, via "deep links" to specific moments in video time, with commentary— or with links to other references, texts, and rich media.
 * Nibipedia**

__@http://www.untamedscience.com__ is a collection of videos and podcasts about biology and Earth science topics.
 * Untamed Science**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://fora.tv| http://fora.tv]]__ Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want. With our community of savvy users and an extensive, growing library of smart videos, FORA.tv is at the forefront of the ongoing integration - and transformation – of the traditional media, TV, cable, and online industries from mass-market to high-quality, high-value content.
 * FORA.tv**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://current.tv| http://current.tv]]__ features user generated content about current news topics. Current is a real television network. Like, on your TV set. And it's created by you.
 * Current.tv**

__@http://www.nextvista.org__ An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - our goal is to gather a set of resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!
 * Next Vista**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://academicearth.org| http://academicearth.org]]__ As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. A user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.
 * Academic Earth**

__@http://edublogs.tv__ the video hosting site dedicated to education  One Minute Wonders http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/oneminutewonders/#/home 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.
 * Edublogs.tv**

__@http://www.pbs.org/video__ offers videos from the most popular shows including Frontline, NOVA, Nature, and American Experience.
 * PBS Video**

__@http://kids.pbs.org/go/video__ videos fro younger kids
 * PBS Kids**

= Video Editing Tools =

= = __**iMovie 09**__ @http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/ Maybe you want to throw together a few video clips. Maybe you have more time and want to fine-tune every edit. Or maybe you just want to flip through clips the way you flip through album covers in iTunes. iMovie lets you do it all — then share it all. Comes on Every Mac.

__**Pixioral**__ [[@http://www.pixorial.com/|http://www.pixorial.com/  ]] online collaborative video service. o get footage into the site, you have two options: send in your physical media by UPS, or upload digital video directly. You can ship the following formats to Pixorial, who will do the legwork of digitally transcribing them for you: VHS, VHS-C, Digital8, Hi8, Betamax, miniDV, and 8mm, Super 8 and Super 8 film with sound, DVDs, and even memory cards up to 6 GB. You pay a fee depending on the media and the length, and can choose whether to have the originals sent back to you or recycled. On the digital side, Pixorial supports .avi, .flv, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .dv, .rm, and .wmv uploads, up to 768 MB at a time.

__**JayCut**__ [[@http://jaycut.com/|http://jaycut.com/  ]] Your Video Editor – Online Engage your audience with the world's premier online video editor seamlessly integrated on your website, or edit your own videos on JayCut's community.

__**Jumpcut**__ @http://jumpcut.com/ lets you upload video, photos, and audio, or import from Flickr or Facebook, and edit using a Flash interface. Add titles, effects, transitions, music, and split and crop video tracks. Then publish your video and let others remix it. Jumpcut also has some social networking features (like groups). Jumpcut is probably the best of the online video editors, though I really wish there was a way to export videos off the site.

__**Eyespot**__ @http://www.eyespot.com/ is a full featured editor like Jumpcut. It lets you upload video, photos, and audio and then add transitions, effects, titles, and music. The editor isn't as attractive and easy to use, in my opinion, as Jumpcut's, but Eyespot offers a good deal of free media sets from partners like The Colbert Report, Public Enemy, and Dreamworks Pictures.

__**Movie Masher**__ @http://www.moviemasher.com/ lets web site owners offer editing and remixing capabilities to their visitors via a sophisticated flash widget, which can be customized to match the look of your web site. The editing tools allow you to sequence and trim clips, add effects, transitions, titles, and music, using a familiar timeline editor.

__**Cuts**__ @http://www.cuts.com/ lets you import video from MySpace, YouTube, and Google video (or anywhere you can get the direct .FLV URL) and then make your own "cut" by removing scenes, looping scenes, and adding captions and sound effects.

__**Windows Movie Maker 2.1**__ @http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. Using third-party software you can even take movies you've made and turn them into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.

= **Live Broadcasting Tools** =

= = **Justin.TV** __@http://www.justin.tv__ Create your own channel and broadcast live

__@http://www.livestream.com/__ Broadcast from your webcam or camcorder, show presentation screen and you live!
 * LiveStream**

__@http://www.mogulus.com/__ broadcasting, see videos on 26 channels at once, create your own channel
 * Mogulus Live**

@http://www.selfcast.com/__ your own live show on your own channel!
 * SelfCast Broadcas**__t

__@http://www.ustream.tv/__ live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand. Click here to start a broadcast now or learn more about broadcasting.
 * UStream Broadcast**

= **Video Conversion Tools** =

= = __**Zamzar**__ [[@http://zamzar.com/|http://zamzar.com/ ]] Convert video files without downloading anything. Just upload the video, select the format you want to convert to, then wait for it to finish.

__**Download Helper FireFox Extension**__ @https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.This works also for audio and picture galleries.

__**Online Video Converter**__ [[@http://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/|http://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/  ]] Download and convert your preferred videos from platforms like YouTube, and many others. It's a free video converter and download.

@http://www.convertmytube.com/ Convert online videos, music and more to play on any device you choose...
 * __Convert My Tube__**

__**Media Converter**__ [[@http://www.mediaconverter.org/|http://www.mediaconverter.org/ ]] Do you want to convert files up to 1GB, unlimited conversions, support for more video portals, better video quality and a lot of other advantages?

__**TubeChop**__ @http://www.tubechop.com/ TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it. How Does It Work? 1. Find the video you want to chop. 2. Select & cut interesting part of the video. 3. Share it with friends.

__**Dirpy**__ @http://www.dirpy.com Use Dirpy to convert your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s! A tool that lets you download or convert your favorite YouTube videos to high quality mp3s in real-time. Dirpy Studio provides many useful features like real-time transcoding, id3 metadata tags, offsets, support for high quality formats (including HD), and more.

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Use Dirpy to convert your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s! A tool that lets you download or convert your favorite YouTube videos to high quality mp3s in real-time. Dirpy Studio provides many useful features like real-time transcoding, id3 metadata tags, offsets, support for high quality formats (including HD), and more. ======

= Screencasting Tools = __@http://www.jingproject.com__ Lets you capture screen images and/or what you do on your computer as a video (using free downloadable software) and then share online--great for tutorials!
 * Jing**

__@http://www.screencast-o-matic.com__ SImple screen capture device that produces screencasts--with or without sound--that can be embedded into your website without downloading software.
 * Screencast-O-Matic**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://screencastle.com| http://screencastle.com]]__ Push button recording!
 * ScreenCastle**

__@http://www.screenjelly.com__ "records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like."
 * ScreenJelly**

__@http://screenr.com__ is a "push button" screencast recording system. You don't even need to register, but if you do, you will find all your screencasts in one place. You will need a Twitter account, but you do not need to publish the recording to Twitter. (It gives you the option to post to Twitter or not.. You can post your screencast to any webpage, though, through the embed code.) You can record up to 5 minutes.
 * Screenr**

__@http://instructify.com/2009/04/16/toast-your-screen-with-screentoaster__ Features great video quality, the ability to add captions, plus it lets you easily upload your video to YouTube, or download it in a variety of formats for viewing or editing later.
 * ScreenToaster**

__@http://skitch.com__ capture tool--capture an image or create a screencast.
 * Skitch Screen**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://camstudio.org%E2%80%A8| http://camstudio.org ]]__ Record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Free, Open Source, Download
 * CamStudio**

__[[@http://%E2%80%A8http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox| http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox]]__ Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be e-mailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want. Snapz Pro X 2.x costs $69. Upgrades from Snapz Pro X 1.x w/ movie capture are $20. Why take a static screenshot when Snapz Pro X makes creating a movie just as easy? Snapz Pro X does that, and so much more! Download a free demo version right now
 * SnapzProX**

__@http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html__ Real time screen recording for your Mac. Want to capture everything on your screen? 3d games bogging down ordinary screen capture software? Those days are over: welcome to iShowU HD. Built for speed. Built to “just work”…
 * iShowU**

[[@http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm|http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm ]] Record. Edit. Share. With ScreenFlow screencasting software, you can capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time.The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.
 * ScreenFlow**__