A list of free and other resources that are useful for those that want to use video in the classroom: repositories, tools, guides etc collected in the framework of the MEDEA Awards and Media and Learning Conference.
2. Banks of video resources
• Youtube www.youtube.com
• Vimeo www.vimeo.com
• Google video
www.google.com/videohp?hl=en
• Video jug www.videojug.com
3. Public video resources
• Europeana and Euscreen
www.euscreen.eu
• National broadcasters www.rte.ie/laweb/index.html
• National film archives
www.institut-national-audiovisuel.fr
• National press agencies
www.anp.nl
• European Commission AV services
ec.europa.eu/avservices/index.cfm?sitelang=en
• European Parliament TV services
audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu/Default.aspx
6. Video resources
• www.openculture.com
• commons.wikimedia.org
• http://www.footagefirm.com/ free stock
footage – a lot of it from US
• http://www.archivefootage.net/ - film and
video archive – not free
7. Video Resources
• Discovery channel for school: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
See also http://player.discoveryeducation.com/views/hh_httpView.cfm?guidAssetId=ef7b2253-
7ad5-4b1a-aa48-9ecbd68b66c5
• Dutch School TV resources: http://www.schooltv.nl/beeldbank see
http://www.schooltv.nl/beeldbank/clip/20070901_holifeest01 for clip about
Holi feast
• http://www.lesite.tv/
• http://www.filmsforlearning.org/
• http://dotsub.com/
• http://www.neok12.com/ see http://www.neok12.com/Reptiles.htm
• WatchKnow, US – moderated videos sorted on age: www.watchknow.org
8. Video Resources
• Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php - rich variety of video
resources, generally complete programmes, see
http://www.archive.org/details/berlin_airlift_TNA
• ThinkPort US, variety of resources:
http://www.thinkport.org/classroom/onlineclips.tp see
http://www.thinkport.org/classroom/onlineclips/healthclips.tp
• EduTube: http://edutube.org/ see http://edutube.org/en/video/ocean-
filling-trash
• SchoolTube: http://www.schooltube.com/ media sharing site
• TeacherTube: http://teachertube.com/ media sharing site
• Canal Educatif, http://www.canal-educatif.fr see http://canal-
educatif.fr/Video/Sciences/016-polaire/400.php
9. Audio
• The Freesound Project http://www.freesound.org/
• SoundBible http://www.soundbible.com/
• SoundTransit http://www.soundtransit.nl/
• www.songsforteachers.com (music to learn along
with)
• http://www.sounddogs.com/start.asp downloadable
sound effects - not free
10. Audio
• Jamendo www.jamendo.com/en/ and
pro.jamendo.com/en/ music
• Opsound www.opsound.org
• Incompetech www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-
free
• SoundClick www.soundclick.com
• www.premiumbeat.com
11. Make your own music
• Microsoft Learning Suite:
– Songsmith
• (Similar Apple GarageBand or Android
Pocketband)
• In your editor (PowerDirector!)
12. Software and Tools
• Subtitling and translating tool
– http://universalsubtitles.org/en/
• AUDACITY free audio editing
– http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Format Factory for transferring from one video
format to another
– http://www.formatoz.com/
13. Software and Tools
• Lightworks: open source/professional editing software
– http://www.lightworksbeta.com
• AVS Video Editor (timeline-based video editor, shareware)
– http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx
• Video Redo (MPEG editor, shareware)
– http://www.videoredo.com
• Virtual cutter – simple cutting
– http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualcutter/
• Video editing and assembling: Windows live move maker
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker
• AVID (and others) free VideoEditor
• HTML Kit (Free!) http://www.htmlkit.com/download/
• YouTube - Video Editor http://www.youtube.com/editor
14. Software and Tools
• Any Video Converter (Free)
– http://www.any-video-converter.com
• KeepVid
– http://www.keepvid.com (copy video from YouTube)
• YouTube Downloader
– http://youtubedownloader.com/
• RealPlayer (download video and convert format)
– http://france.real.com/realplayer/
• CamStudio (screen recording)
– http://camstudio.org/
15. MEDEA related
• Media & Learning Resources
http://www.media-and-learning.eu/resources