online video sharing
Websites for viewing and showcasing pupil work
Youtube is the most famous example of online video sharing. It is a website that many school internet providers have blocked, but there are educational benefits to the site. There are an increasing number of educational videos. There are video examples of interesting science experiments, new technology in Computing or Design & Technology, or people from all over the world singing folk or traditional songs to learn in Music.
When studying pop music, YouTube has become a good way for unsigned bands to make it big. OK Go became famous for their quirky music videos on the site. They created a dance video competition that hundreds of people entered including lots of young people. Similar competitions might be a good challenge for class projects or a media production unit. One annual competition, being run by a school teacher, is a science film competition.
Read how big business is trying to control the internet in this interesting article by Damian Kulash Jr. from OK Go.
Video sharing sites are good places for students to showcase their own work, as they can see how many people around the world have viewed their film, & also read any comments viewers might have left
Video Sharing Tools
- Truetube is a really good option for videos that address a particular issue, its a pity more people aren't using it.
- Films for learning is another great place to post subject related class videos in a more responsive environment.
- Although Vimeo is where you will find a lot of serious filmmakers posting their work.
- Aniboom is a site dedicated to presenting animation.
- Videojug its slightly off the wall, but worth a watch.
- Wordia is a video dictionary, most are dull monologues, so get your class to create accurate definitions and lets brighten up this fantastic site like parksidemedia have done here
- Google Video
- Daily Motion
- TeacherTube
- Youtube is the site everyone knows best.
Image Sharing Tools
Image Sharing in Plain English.
Flickr is a photo sharing website. Many of the people storing photos there choose to share them in a way which will allow you to you download the pictures for your own use, which is particularly helpful when students are creating their own newspapers and posters. You can also add comments to photos and add notes pointing out details in an image.
Try out Flickr in class using our Notable Flickr and Flickritis activities.