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The Internet is full of useful information, but it's disorganized and often unreliable. Despite its problems, the potential of the Internet for education is especially huge. Imagine tapping into that potential. Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos. Just think: millions of great short videos, and other watchable media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth. Finally, imagine them all deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught. WatchKnow-as in, "You watch, you know"-has started building this resource.

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

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Always wanted to save that YouTube video? This site can do it for you.

This is a blog post from Presentation Zen on storyboarding. Embedded in the blog post is a video from Disney about their use of storyboarding. The post and video might be useful to share with students when developing projects that are best organized through storyboards.

"Our teachers were asked to view this video prior to our 15-minute Friday staff meeting on March 6. They were then asked to create a question that was inspired by the video that "no one else will ask". The result was 50, wide-ranging questions that are captured in this Wordle." This would be interesting an interesting activity anywhere - college classroom, faculty meeting, professional development. Create a shared google document (spreadsheet). Ask participants to enter their questions on the spreadsheet. Copy/paste it into wordle and voila...in 2 minutes you have a visual representation of the groups thinking. Try it with kids sometime, too.

Welcome to the Search Stories Video Creator. Just type in your searches and select the kind of results that best communicate your story. Then, share your story with the world.

a list of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action. What makes these conferences special is both the people they're able to assemble together in one place and that they put videos of the experiences online for everyone to enjoy.

Nicely animated video of Dan Pink's ideas from his book DRIVE

A very interesting video from Jon Udell analyzing the development of a wikipedia article. This demonstrates how technology allows for the collaborative creation of knowledge, even around niche topics.

"As school districts explore the use of social computing throughout the school day and as an approach to extend instruction, many educators are making the decision to create a wiki, publish video online, or to participate in blogging, social networking or virtual worlds. Social media guidelines encourage educators to participate in social computing and strive to create an atmosphere of trust and individual accountability."

"A website full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website. Simply select an animated explanation and follow the instructions to integrate it in your site."

"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG."

Things to consider when posting to your Facebook page. Aimed at "the workplace," this video contains good advice for educators, too.

Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list in the scrolling author box on the left. Read on to find out just how easy it is!

This is a site that contains links to web 2.0 tools in various categories: presentation, collaboration, research, video, etc.

This is a fabulous video that provides an overview of our consumption-driven wasteful economy and describes it (accurately) as a system in crisis.

An example of challenged -based learning in the elementary classroom.

"Using Vokle you can host a live conference in which participants can chat with text while you broadcast yourself. You can also broadcast a conversation of yourself and another person who has their webcam enabled... I can see Vokle being used in a classroom to bring in an author, scientist, or other person of interest to your content area."

Thousands of lectures from the world's top scholars. Might be a useful resource for upper level high school and beyond.