In January of 2007, 7.2 billion videos were viewed online by about 123 million Americans, or 70% of the total internet audience in the U.S. (www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1264). This only strengthened educators belief that videos should be used in Instruction.

Educators around the globe are continuously making educational channels in YouTube, Splashcast, TeacherTube, Ustream, blip.tv and alike. Universities and Colleges are taking advantage of the ubiquitous online video upload sites. Schools are turning to Youtube and iTunes U and other live streaming video sites to host their educational video content.

Video editing and uploading is neither cumbersome nor costly. Tools for assembling and editing clips are free or extremely low cost and make it easy for amateurs to get good results without investing in expensive equipment, software, or training. Online toolsets like the one seen in www.FixMyMovie.com, for example enhances the quality of digital video and optimizes it for online distribution. Homemovie.com

Also Youtube now supports caption, so there is an ADA advance.  It also supports subtitles and video annotations. You can click the links below for simple tutorials in youtube;

1. Youtube help center - Here you will learn how to put closed captions and learn more video tutorials.

2. Video Annotations - Here you will be taught how to put annotations in your Youtube videos.

Click here for more examples of Web-based video editing and video sharing platforms.

Hence, once the exclusive province of highly trained professionals, video content production has gone grassroots and the the Educators' realm is there to take advantage of it.

Video Formats

This site assumed you know a little about different video formats but in case you don't, we recommend you to read Douglas Dixon's Video Format Conversion. It will give you an idea about AVI, MPEG and Quicktime conversion. There are more video formats but these three are famous. Visit softdivshareware.com to see different video formats.