Videos

All videos in the regular collections of NextVista.org are for a student audience, highlighting the creativity of students and teachers around the world. Our three principal collections are:

We also have a large collection of careers videos to help middle and high school students better understand and connect to their future possibilities. If you are interested in projects which use these videos or which would encourage your students to make and contribute such videos, please contact us.

Submitting Videos

The NextVista.org library encourages anyone interested to submit short, creative videos that could help students learn anything one might encounter in school. Please be aware of these guidelines before submitting:

  • videos must be for a student audience
  • videos should contain no copyrighted content
  • media used should be properly cited
  • videos should be no longer than five minutes
  • videos should be factually accurate

We encourage students not to make themselves identifiable in videos they submit to NextVista.org. If appearing on screen, we suggest not using one’s name. When a teacher assures us that he or she has proper release forms for students who in videos identify themselves, we will post the video, but we recommend that those making videos keep themselves from being easily identified.

We use YouTube for video submissions in order to facilitate feedback and formatting. Here's the process:

  1. Upload your video to any YouTube account. While or after doing so, choose the "unlisted" privacy option.
  2. Send the link to the resulting YouTube page to videos@nextvista.org. You might try opening the link in another browser just to make sure what you expect to show up indeed does. Additionally, please put the name of the video in the subject line of that email, as doing so will help us do a better job of tracking your entry.
  3. Wait for word from us that we've reviewed the video. Typically, we identify ways that you can strengthen it, or perhaps changes that need to be made so that the video follows the rules and can be considered. We want your video to be as strong as it can be!

If YouTube is not an option for you, please write us at videos@nextvista.org with suggestions for how you would like to share it, or with questions if you aren't sure.

We frequently will ask contributors to make adjustments in order to meet our rules and educational efforts, and suggest that project files be saved if possible.

All videos are posted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. One submitting a video authorizes those working with NextVista.org to use the video to promote the organization and its educational efforts, including posting the video on the Next Vista for Learning YouTube channel. Ownership is retained by the one submitting, and will be removed within four weeks from NextVista.org when requested by the submitting party. Next Vista for Learning is not responsible for what those who download the videos from NextVista.org may do with them.

Next Vista for Learning reserves the right to decide not to post any video submitted for any reason whatsoever.