Presenter Shawn Brandt

Teachers have been using video in classrooms for years. As technology changes, so do the teaching strategies. Online video websites can help connect your lessons with today's YouTube generation. Learn how to download videos from YouTube, embed video in PowerPoint presentations and your class website, and edit video clips. Discover how to video stream your important lectures, presentations, lab demonstrations, and math problems/solutions online.

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Search for Online Video

• Google Video Search
• Yahoo Video Search
• Truveo.com
• neoK12 (videos by subject categories)

Download Online Video

• iDesktop.tv (search and download YouTube)... watch this tutorial.
• DownloadHelper (Firefox plug-in)
• WinFF (convert video/audio formats)

Current Events

• CNN Student News
• C-SPAN Video Library
• Reuters Video: Top News

Presentations From Influential Experts

• TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
• BigThink.com
• Fora.tv

Free Online Documentaries

• FreeDoucmentaries.org
• SnagFilms.com

Alternatives to YouTube

• Discovery Education Streaming
• UntamedScience.com
• dotSUB.com (video with subtitles)
• Hulu.com (popular TV shows and movies)
• TeacherTube.com
• SchoolTube.com
• Teachers.tv
• Viddler.com
• Blip.tv

Uploading Class Tutorials and Presentations

• Jing (narrate screen recordings)
• Vimeo.com (great service for recorded video)
• authorSTREAM.com (upload PowerPoint presentations)
• Animoto.com (create quick video introductions)

Other Ideas

• Need a song?... Download video... convert to mp3 with WinFF.
• Create a short clip by editing with MovieMaker.
• Narrate Ppt lessons and upload to authorSTREAM.com.
• Create short videos by uploading pictures and Audacity audio to Animoto.com.
• Record lecture with MovieMaker / Pinnicle Studio (FireWire)... upload to Vimeo.com.
• Show video w/out audio, audio only, predict what will happen, etc.