Video Hosting on Vimeo

Vimeo is one of many video hosting sites that allows users to upload videos and embed them elsewhere. Vimeo offers a number of editing elements once your video is uploaded. You can add audio and visual filters to your work.

Vimeo offers many ways to distribute your work once it has been uploaded. You can tweet, facebook, or embed your video anywhere.

One nice element about Vimeo that is different than most hosting sites is that it allows for you to choose the image that the video displays as its thumbnail.

Vimeo is considered more of a film makers video hosting site. Uploads are considerably fast for a free site.

For more information go to http://www.Vimeo.com

Video Hosting: Schooltube

SchoolTube.com is the nation’s largest K-12 moderated video sharing platform, specifically designed for students and educators.

It is endorsed by many educational groups, and is accepted by most school divisions as the leader in educational video hosting.

In comparison to other video hosting sites, you do need to be a teacher in order to sign up for an account. Like the other sites, it is free to sign up for an account.

Due to the fact that they do screen videos to make sure they are appropriate for schools, the uploads can take a few minutes longer than sites like Vimeo and YouTube.

Once uploaded the videos are easy to embed on your WordPress sites. They are able to be promoted through social media sites; however, you will need more than just the short address that Vimeo and YouTube provide.

For more information or to sign up for an account go to:

http://www.schooltube.com

YouTube

Many staffs continue to use YouTube to host their videos. YouTube allows a staff to create a channel and host videos free of charge. An adviser can sign up using an email and a created password.

The advantages of YouTube are that a staff can easily embed videos, promote their videos with social media, and monitor the audience interaction through their channel feedback.

YouTube says its users upload over 100 hours of video every minute, and 6 billion hours of video are watched every month.

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