Online+Video+and+Audio+Resources

Online Video Resources
Free Online Videos Websites: These sites feature videos that you can stream and sometimes download from the internet.

Educational Podcasts: Some examples of good, free, education downloads that you can subscribe to through iTunes.

Great Video Sites That Require a Subscription - These are incredible video resources, but they cost money. You can sign up for a free trial to use any of these tools for a little while at least.

[|100 Best YouTube Videos For Teachers]: A resource with links to many videos on YouTube that can be used for educational purposes. Remember to ALWAYS thoroughly screen a video before showing it to students.

[|Zamzar] - Free online file conversion. This tool allows you to download and save video files from websites like YouTube or TeacherTube. Please be aware of copyright issues.

[|Storyline Online]: An online streaming video program that features Hollywood actors reading children’s books aloud.

[|National Geographic Young Explorer]: This contains read aloud audio for the articles in the National Geographic Young Explorers magazine.

Online Audio Resources
[|The Internet Audio Archive]: This library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

[|Boston Public Library Overdrive:] The Boston Public Library allows you to download and “borrow” books in digital audio format. Most books are only downloadable in Windows Media Player format. You can sign up for a free BPL eCard or you can use your existing library card.

[|LibriVox:] Librivox offers free audio books from the public domain.

[|Audible.com]: Offers digital audio books for a monthly fee, or you can pay for single books.

[|Audible Kids]: Just like Audible.com but for children’s books.

[|American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank]

[|Political Speeches Archive]

[|RoyaltyFreeMusic.com]- The Free Music Program from Award Winning Music features collections of free royalty free music for individuals for use in every imaginable personal project and production.

[|Freeplay Music] - Free, royalty free music available for download. You can even search for music based on the emotion the piece invokes.

[|Free Sound Effects] - Links to collections of free sound effects available for download.