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**Top 10 Alternatives to YouTube from Technology & Learning Magazine** //David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at// //dkapuler@gmail.com// //and read his blog at// [|//cyber-kap.blogspot.com//]
 * 1) [|School Tube] - [] -- Excellent safe place for students and teachers to share and view video.
 * 2)  [|WatchKnow] - [] -- Wonderful site with 1000's of videos for students in multiple subjects, organized in a clear, precise way.
 * 3)  [|Neo K-12] - [] -- All videos on this amazing site are a 100% safe. Also, there is a complete suite of educational tools for educators to choose from, such as quizzes, presentations, and more.
 * 4)  [|Snag Learning] - [] -- An interesting site that brings documentary-style films to engage students in discussion and classroom participation.
 * 5)  [|Qwiki] - [] -- A very new (alpha) site that brings an innovative twist on video experience. While the content is still growing, one can't help but notice that amount of promise that is shown here.
 * 6)  [|Explore] - [] -- Great site, similar to Discovery Streaming for educational video. Users can either view on the web or download for their own convenience.
 * 7)  [|Kids Tube] - [] -- Excellent filtered site for kids' videos.
 * 8)  [|Teacher Tube] - [] -- Excellent site for educators to find videos for students and share in the wonderful educational online community.
 * 9)  [|Vimeo] - [] -- A nice very popular alternative to YouTube. I recommend using with a filter of some sort, or view all content before introducing to students.
 * 10)  [|Clip Blast] - [] -- A huge collection of videos can be found on this nice site; must be used in a filtered environment for safety reasons.

media type="custom" key="9674982" width="120" height="120" The third wave to hit the web in near future will be web 3.0. What exactly is web 3.0? It basically means that a person is browsing the web with a 3d experience. While Web 2.0 is built towards the social side of the online world, web 3.0 is expected to be where the money will be made by the corporations. Although it has existed for quite some time now, the exposure for web 3.0 based applications is more towards focused groups. This is possible, thanks to the development of faster processors and hi-speed broadband access that keep on coming our way nowadays. Web 3.0 based applications are expected to be a virtual reality location where consumers can try anything. An example would be the Second Life, where more than 1 million players, including offline merchants participate. I can’t wait to try out my new shirt virtually!
 * Web 3.0 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-- the virtual reality experience **