Alternatives+to+YouTube

**Alternatives to YouTube** Research shows that students can learn well from rich and engaging video content. YouTube provides a vast array of videos on many subjects. However, YouTube is rife with educationally-rich videos—but is also full of inappropriate content. The following resources provide teachers and students options for watching educational videos in the classroom.

**__Safe Video (available to all PSD teachers and students)__** The Educational Video Library (NAL icon “SafeVideos”) allows teachers to give their students access to valuable educational videos. With this feature, YouTube videos can be viewed and shared—without the potentially dangerous and inappropriate peripheral content, such as comments and related links.

**[|SafeVideo.doc] (**link to how-to tutorial)

**__Teacher Tube__** **__ @http://www.teachertube.com/ __** Teacher Tube provides user generated videos for teachers by teachers. On Teacher Tube you will find videos of teachers sharing lesson plans in action, videos of pertaining to academic content, and others that are simply inspirational.

**__How Stuff Works__** @http://www.howstuffworks.com/ From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered. No topic is too big or too small for our expert editorial staff to unmask ... or for you to understand. In addition to comprehensive articles, our helpful graphics and informative videos walk you through every topic clearly, simply and objectively. Our premise is simple: Demystify the world and do it in a simple, clear-cut way that anyone can understand. (taken from [])

**__History.com__** @http://www.history.com/ History.com offers video content similar to and, in some cases, identical to that which is found on the respective television network.

**__SnagFilms__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** @http://www.snagfilms.com/ ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Snag Films and its companion site Snag Learning are great places to watch full length documentaries from producers like National Geographic for free. Snag Learning provides a catalog of educational films that are accompanied by classroom discussion questions.