100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers

October 21, 2010 9:16 PM

100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers includes some great choices, among them are also many generally likable ones like the CIA (not that one, The Culinary Institute of America) l Words of the World l NPR Radio Pictures l The Metropolitan Museum of Art l PBS.
posted by nickyskye (13 comments total)

Nice...Thanks! the teacher wife and my staff will appreciate this!
posted by HuronBob at 9:38 PM on October 21, 2010

Yeah... would be nice if my district didn't block Youtube from the network, like every other district in my area.

Teachertube is a good alternative, though.
posted by Huck500 at 10:04 PM on October 21, 2010

I don't understand the beginning: YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments this side of Yahoo! News.

Who is Fred?

Maybe I should look at these YouTube videos more often.
posted by twoleftfeet at 2:53 AM on October 22, 2010

Thanks so much! I love looking for new resources for the workshops I do.
posted by Stewriffic at 2:56 AM on October 22, 2010

I curse this post now because I had to Google Fred.
posted by twoleftfeet at 3:12 AM on October 22, 2010

wow Fred is bad
posted by criticalbill at 4:43 AM on October 22, 2010

Yeah... would be nice if my district didn't block Youtube from the network, like every other district in my area.

This is why I live and die by my FireFox video-scraper plug-in, and why I taught many teachers this year at my new school how to use it.
posted by absalom at 4:45 AM on October 22, 2010

This is such a fantastic post. Thank you for this treasure trove. I know quite a few educators who will be thrilled to discover it.
posted by zarq at 5:44 AM on October 22, 2010

I'd like to start a betting pool on how many favorites this post gets. You know, for the kids.
posted by swift at 6:06 AM on October 22, 2010

Also, great post!
posted by swift at 6:26 AM on October 22, 2010

'This is why I live and die by my FireFox video-scraper plug-in'

School Districts like mine block the YouTube site. So you don't get a chance to view the video or even get to the site to scrape. Evom will let you paste in a url if you know it without going to YT.
posted by judson at 7:08 AM on October 22, 2010

Judson: I scrape the video at home and bring it to school. Not rocket science.
posted by absalom at 11:39 AM on October 22, 2010

Fred is interesting: many people (myself included) find his videos incredibly annoying, but at the same time he's one of the most popular YouTube stars. He even has his own movie! Lucas is a nice guy in person and I'm happy for his success, but I can't watch his videos :)

Going to have to show these to my (recently retired teacher) mom, who doesnt really get YouTube.
posted by wildcrdj at 1:50 PM on October 22, 2010