Teachertube - The Safe YouTube Alternative
I will acknowledge that YouTube has a lot a useful content. But unfortunately, it also has a lot of content that children should not be viewing. So, as a general policy, I do not embed videos from YouTube on any educational type web pages I manage. Instead, I use Teacher Tube, a family-safe alternative to YouTube. You can search for videos by keywords or you can check out videos within specific channels. For example, there is a math channel a science channel, and a writing channel. You can also search within the channels.
An Alternative to YouTube For Teachers and Web Publishers
A trick for posting your own videos on an educational site is to upload your video to YouTube and then use the embed code to place the video on your site. This saves band width. You can do this same thing with TeacherTube! Just join TeacherTube (free), upload your video to their site, and then copy the video embed code and paste it on your site.
In addition to TeacherTube, I recently found other alternatives to YouTube that provide free educational vidoes in a family-friendly platform. I will post about these more at a later time.