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Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you've come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If you find it useful, please share it as widely as you can. And if we're missing good sites, please list them in the comments below.

On October 21, the top videos selected by the YouTube Play jury were revealed and celebrated at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The videos, which can be viewed below and on youtube.com/play, will be presented at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice on October 22-24, 2010. They comprise the ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years.

"Welcome to ESL Basics! My name is Andrea, and I am your guide for learning English. If you are just a beginner or if you have been speaking English for years, you will find that ESL Basics can help you along your journey. Be sure to click on "Videos" for daily vocabulary words. We are so happy to provide hundreds of ESL videos on our site. Plus, if you're an ESL/EFL teacher, you can check out helpful videos and job postings in our ESL/EFL teachers section. Visit often. We're adding content daily. Enjoy"

"In a move that underscores OverDrive's plans to support a robust selection of streaming video for libraries, the company on Tuesday announced the appointment of Lee C. Milstein to the newly created position of chief strategy officer. Milstein was most recently head of the news content partnership team for Google's YouTube division, and previously held positions at leading tech and media companies including AOL and DivX. "

Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers. This list is provided by SmartTeaching.org, a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers.

Great video to explain Diigo -- more than just public bookmarking

FUN VIDEO WITH DISCUSSION AND QUIZ "Fighting plagiarism is serious business. From brainchild-snatching to wholly quotables, plagiarists have plenty of wily ways to pass others' work off as their own -- and all of them are threats to original thinking. Melissa Huseman D'Annunzio imagines what would happen if a Department of Plagiarism Investigation were on the case."

"Everyone says that everything moves fast on the Internet, but just how fast are we talking about here? How much data gets shared across the Internet? While you calculate that in your head, take note that we are talking about emails, status posts, tweets and retweets, the downloading of apps and uploading of vacation pictures, streaming of online videos and music, online transactions and the list goes on."

Are we Digital Dummies? A very interesting doc on how technology is changing how we interact and communicate with each other.

Take a journey every Thursday night as DOC ZONE explores the major stories of our time. Around the corner, around the world, our cameras bring viewers a sweeping panoramic view of what matters most to Canadians.

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This current events database provides access to videos, guides, lesson plans and news stories from reputable sources like BBC or CNN. It is a useful resources for Civics, Geography, History, English and Social Science teachers.

This Canadian History resources includes information about various eras and covers social, political, economic and military history. It includes maps, videos, timelines, news, excerpts from books and primary documents.

Changing Education Paradigms

" Incredible stories from our world Discover amazing human stories from around the world through television and radio clips from BBC programmes such as Human Planet, Amazon with Bruce Parry and Tropic of Cancer. Human Planet Explorer enables you to browse a selection of clips that showcase man's relationship with the natural environment."