25 places to find instructional videos

Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about:

1. 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos
2. Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
3. blip.tv - next generation TV network
4. Google Video - videos on all topics
5. Graspr - The instructional video network
6. Howcast - How-to videos
7. iCue - A fun, innovative, learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives
8. Instructables - Make, HowTo and DIY 
9. iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.
10. John Locker - Documentaries and educational videos
11. MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)
12. MonkeySee - HowTo videos
13. neoK12 - free educational videos and lessons for K-12 school kids
14. Research Channel - 3,500 video titles available
15. SchoolTube - provides students and educators with a safe, world class, video sharing webiste
16. Sparkeo - a flexible video platform
17. SuTree - learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.
18. TeacherTube - educational videos
19. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - 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.
20. TV Lesson - How to videos
21. Ustream - watch live broadcasts, explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or review our past broadcasts.
22. Video Jug - Life explained. On film.
23. Vimeo - a thriving community of people who love to make and share videos
24. YouTube - videos on everything under the sun
25. YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US.

Note: This video list has been extracted from my page 101+ Free Websites to find out about Anything and Everything

Comments

[Tony Hirst]

Some time ago, I started to collect instructional video sites together in a Google custom search engine - you can find it at:
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/howdoi

Google custom search engines are highly underrated and yet very powerful ways of building metasearch engines over a limited set of domains, as I think HowDoI shows.

[Donna Guthrie]

Here's another site for your list.

Celebrate Thomas Edison's Birthday with a visit to his "invention factory" in West Orange NJ.

MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids (www.meetmeatthecorner.org)
is a series of free educational video pod casts is directed at kids ages 7-12. Each three-minute episode includes links to fun websites, a list of recommended books and a Learning Corner of questions and extended activities about the topic.

On February 1, there's a show about Thomas Edison filmed at the new Thomas Edison Museum in West Orange New Jersey. And later in February, there is an episode on how to prepare for your school science fair

[Sheryl Ryder]

Thank you, thank you! May I share?

[kate]

Very nice list, thank you!
you may also take a look at lectr.com

[H.]

Thanks for the link. I will use it to find relevant material for my students

[Talia from Sparkeo]

Thanks for including Sparkeo on this list.

Sparkeo IS a site for instructional videos, but we aren't a destination site, we are a full-embeddable platform that people can use to create and sell videos.

I won't spam your blog with the full explanation, but feel free to email me directly (readers, too, not just Jane) at talia at sparkeo.com

[demetri]

check out http://www.WatchKnow.org
it is an aggregator and host for k-12 instructional videos founded by Larry Sanger who was also involved in founding wikipedia.

[Matt]

so far only german but interesting concept: http://www.lecturio.de

[Jorge]

Great, but missing Lynda.com ;)

[Luis Anthony Ast]

Feel free to add my site to the list: The Video Math Tutor - http://www.videomathtutor.com

[Tricia]

Thanks for the great list! Don't forget http://www.eHow.com

[David Hopkins]

Thanks Jane - top list as always.

Regards, David.