YouTube has profoundly changed the Internet landscape since its creation only three and a half years ago. People use it for video blogging, for product promotion, for political and social activism, for teaching others, for pouring their broken hearts out or simply for fun. Schools often find it hard to know how to deal with YouTube. While students typically love browsing for videos, it is very time- and bandwidth-consuming, and although you can find lots of content with educational value, it is also full of irrelevant and sometimes distasteful material.
In response to some of these concerns, a number of alternative video sites have cropped up in recent years, of which I will discuss three (and include a sample video):
