The August 2008 issue of  CHOICE: current reviews for academic libraries had an excellent review of open access videos: "YouTube Culture and the Academic Library: A Guide to Online Open Access Educational Videos" by Susan Ariew.  (p. 2057-2063).

YouTube gets all the attention, but there are many outstanding, under-utilized sources for free educational vidoes and more.  As a further incentive, many of these sites are much more focused on education, so there is less garbage to wade through.

A.N.T.S.  (Animated Tutorial Sharing Project)

http://ants.wetpaint.com/

ANTS is a collaborative project whose goal is to create a shared repository of library, research, and information literacy tutorials created using screencast software such as Adobe Captivate, Camtasia Studio, etc. 

Information Literacy and Fluency Blog (Videos and PowerPoints)

http://informationliteracyvideos.blogspot.com/

This blog is updated infrequently and irregularly, but seems to hit some of the better information literacy videos out there.  Provides short summaries of the videos.

YouTube

www.youtube.com

The most popular of the video-hosting websites.  Great source for videos, but it contains everything under the sun, so search results often yield lot of irrelevant material.

TeacherTube

www.teachertube.com

TeacherTube is the educational alternative to YouTube.  The goal of the site is to: "provide an online community for sharing instructional videos."  Many schools block (gasp!) access to YouTube, so TeacherTube is a great alternative.

slideshare

www.slideshare.com

slideshare allows users to upload slide presentations.  The presentations can then be viewed over the net, even without PowerPoint.  The original PowerPoint file is available for download for most presentations. 

bigthink

www.bigthink.com

This is an interesting site that provides: "direct, unfiltered interviews with today's leading thinkers, movers and shakers. You can search them by question or by topic, and, best of all, respond in kind."  Lots of great, relatively short interviews.  Not much specific info lit content yet, but many issues that touch on related topics. 

VideoSurf

http://www.videosurf.com/ 

"VideoSurf has created a better way for users to search, discover, and watch online videos. ... Basing its search on visual identification, rather than text only, ... allows consumers to visually navigate through their results to easily find the specific scenes, people or moments they most want to see."

• Search titles, characters, people, or topics within TV shows, movies, funny, music videos, sports, celebrities, or news - then "select a scene" to view or refine search results. Time-sequence visual summaries can be viewed or 'shared' in whole or part. Great for mash-ups or to illustrate a point quickly!

www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search.cfm

PRIMO is a means to promote and share peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments. The Committee hopes that publicizing selective, high quality resources will help librarians to respond to the educational challenges posed by still emerging digital technologies.

Wake Forest Toolkit

http://zsr.wfu.edu/toolkit/

A searchable collection of of short audio and video tutorials on dozens of information literacy topics.