Post by Matthew Ragan - -

As I mentioned in the “YouTube is my Homework?!” presentation on 1/14/10,  there are tremendous resources available on the net for video. These have great potential both in and out of the classroom, but the hard part becomes finding and distributing these pieces of media. Finding something relevant can be as easy and simple as a Google search, or it may take some more time to find the piece of media that illustrates your point (or counterpoint). To help you along in the process of finding some of the good stuff, here are a few places to start the search:

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/

National Geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/index.html

The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php

PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/index.html

The Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/

TED
http://www.ted.com/

Teacher Tube
http://www.teachertube.com/

Calculus on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT#g/c/58C7BA6C14FD8F48

Research Channel
http://researchchannel.org/prog/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/edu

The Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/smithsonian/video/

Book Videos
Interviews with Authors
http://www.bookvideos.tv/

National Archives
http://video.google.com/nara.html

Teacher’s TV
http://www.teachers.tv/video

University of California Television
http://www.uctv.tv/

Academic Earth
Courses from Yale, Columbia, UCLA, and MIT
http://www.academicearth.org/

Video Lectures
http://videolectures.net/

Harvard at Home
http://athome.harvard.edu/

Open Courses at Yale
http://oyc.yale.edu/

Georgetown University
http://webcast.georgetown.edu/

Cornell University
http://www.cornell.edu/video/

There is such an abundance of resources on the web that could be used to supplement courses that I thought the start of a new semester would be an ideal time to post the link to one of the richest video repositories on the web.  Technology, Entertainment, Design, (TED), http://www.ted.com features videos from leading thinkers in the science, education, business, technology, entertainment and other fields. Talks are organized by topics and include Larry Lessig ( on laws that choke creativity), Arthur Ganson (on kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas), Seth Godin (on marketing Ideas in the digital age), and Isabel Allende (on women, creativity, the definition of feminism and passion).

So when you have a minute or two poke around the site. You won’t be disappointed!

From TED:

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

Sample Video: “Evan Williams: How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses”.
From: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading