Resource: Existing Content Sources

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Curating materials from existing content sources

It is usually easier to adapt or use existing materials than it is to design your own materials from scratch. Here are some repositories that may provide media or course materials that you can use in your course. Please keep in mind that just because something is on the internet that does not mean that it is free to use without attribution. Always verify the use requirements for anything you find online.

Be sure you are a careful curator – selecting only the best content for meeting your specific learning outcomes – and track the location of resources that you are interested in so that you can cite them.

  Video Repositories

  • ABC Documentaries search for documentaries that aired on ABC in Australia.
  • Australian Screen contains information about and excerpts from a wide selection of Australian feature films, documentaries, television programs, newsreels, short films, animations, and home-movies produced over the last 100 years.
  • BigThink offers interviews and insight from the world’s most influential experts in business, entertainment, education, religion, and media.
  • Bloggingheads.tv offers split-screen video dialogues about politics and ideas.
  • Crash Course Videos are made by the author John Green, his brother Hank, and other subject matter experts. All videos in the series are free to use and licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license but you can support them if you like through Paetron.
  • Folkstreams.net has videos related to American roots culture.
  • Fora.tv Links to an external site. streams free and pay-per-view programs from conferences, summits, public forums, university debates and think tanks across the globe.
  • EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives from the early 1900s to the present.
  • The Global Oneness Project produces documentary films and interviews that explore ecological, economical, and social systems.
  • Learner.org Links to an external site. is a video collection from Annenberg Media.
  • LinkTV gathers global and national news, documentaries, and cultural programs.
  • MITWorld Links to an external site.hosts talks by innovative thinkers.
  • NFB.ca offers films produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
  • PBS Video offers a number of their original programs.
  • PeoplesArchive collects videos of people telling their stories.
  • Ri Channel Links to an external site. features science videos created by the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
  • The Science Network has videos from a number of branches of science.
  • SnagFilms Links to an external site.offers hundreds of full-length documentary films for free.
  • TED Talks  contain videos of “riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.”
  • UbuWeb hosts a large archive of online avant-garde media, including a film/video collection that features work by such artists as Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, and Allen Ginsberg.
  • UCTV is a non-commercial channel featuring programming from the University of California
  • Videolectures.net provides free access to video lectures presented by scholars from many fields of science.

  Image Repositories

  Audio Repositories

  • ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons.
  • Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds (not songs).
  • PartnersInRhyme offers music across many genres for a small fee. It also has free and paid music and sound effects.
  • SoundSnap has free and paid sound effects and loops recorded by users.
  • UbuWeb’s sound page has music by avant-garde artists.
  • FreePlay Links to an external site. is a music library. Freeplay Music allows free educational use. See point 5.(b) (2) in their terms of use. You can search for different styles and "feels".

  Course Material Repositories

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