You+Tube

You Tube




 * Finding good videos**
 * YouTube - a little or a lot of everything, including tons of good tutorials
 * WatchKnow - none of their own, but embedded links to educational videos on other sites
 * Next Vista for Learning - Free, screened, student audience videos by and for teachers and students
 * SchoolTube - free media sharing website for educators
 * TeacherTube - site for educational videos, heavy on advertisements
 * Library of Congress - good source of historical videos (focused on the USA)

> use media from above sites to teach kids to identify quality and plan effectively for making their own pieces
 * Third Party Tools for YouTube**
 * Zamzar - free, online file converter; can help you download YouTube videos
 * TubeChop - Let's you specific start and end time for a video. Just grab the clip you want.
 * Quietube - Provides clean white background for YouTube video. No ads, no comments, no related videos.


 * Making good videos**
 * Plenty of free tools
 * Creative Commons Search - sets filters to grab copyright-friendly content from a number of sites
 * Flickr - advanced search page for this photo sharing site; choose Creative Commons content options
 * Morguefile - photo sharing site with all material copyright-friendly and of good size for multimedia
 * PodSafeAudio - copyright-friendly music sharing site; choose "By Genre" to find appropriate material
 * Jamendo - another copyright-friendly music sharing site
 * Partners In Rhyme - free sound effects (note the difference between "free" and "royalty free")
 * Aviary - photo editing, web templates, and more, done online
 * Putting video content on sharing sites, or in Google Video in Apps


 * Project possibilities**
 * Students as teachers - explaining what they learn (see Light Bulbs collection of [|NextVista.org] )
 * Introducing Communities - project for students telling about their communities
 * Sonnets - project for celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets
 * Exploring Careers - project for having students learn about various careers


 * Resources on information and groups**
 * Citing Copyright-Friendly Content - guide for taking the hassle out of citations
 * Common Mistakes with Student Videos - have the students figure these on their own first
 * Adobe Video Production Curriculum - curricular information from Adobe
 * Nortel LearnIT - strong videos on components of multimedia creation and more
 * Media Literacy from KQED San Francisco - San Francisco public broadcasting station resources
 * Apple's iMovie tutorials - watch these and learn to love iMovie '09
 * Windows Movie Makers - community with info and advice for those doing simple video on Windows machines


 * Freeware**
 * Audacity - great software for editing audio files, creating podcasts, etc. (something of a learning curve)
 * Irfan View - graphics conversion and cropping program
 * CoolIris - create visually compelling photo walls to prompt discussion (good for vocabulary)
 * Photo Story - download page for the free slideshow program from Microsoft (yup, free from Microsoft!)
 * VLC Media Player - good tool for handling all kinds of formats and codecs


 * Apps Notes**

Google Video must be active in the Apps account ("Add more services"), and those who upload must be listed in the Video Uploaders field. 
 * More resources to explore about Video:**

[|Youtube in the Classroom]

 [|Google for Video]

Digital Editing for Educators

Youtube Channel setup guide

Next Vista