Before exploring the 4 sites the only one i was familiar with was YouTube. After looking at these sites i think that YouTube has the biggest variety and is most useful for my educational purposes. In my HS art classes, videos that i show are artists working, animations, and music videos. Showing these are great ways to expose students to current and past artists and also showing them a connection between what they are learning in the classroom with popular culture (animation/ cartoons, music videos, etc). YouTube is the only site of the 4 that offers these. I think it is a good site to use because you can find a lot of stuff that the students can relate to. Obviously a bad thing about YouTube is that anyone can post on it, so it takes teacher screening before showing videos.
I found that TeacherTube seemed to be aimed more for Elementary teachers. I could not find a lot for art or HS. It seems like it is just getting started. I think it definitely has potential to be a great resource.
Next Vista is a good resource. Again, there was not a lot of videos for my subject matter, but i think the way it is broken up is useful. I also really like the global feel of it. Having kids from all over the world posting videos about their lives is a great way for students to learn about their peers in different cultures. I did find this site a bit confusing to navigate.
Finally, i found that Clip Blast was the most confusing. I thought it was very hard to find applicable videos. I couldn't even tell if it had art videos.
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