Let me take a few moments to highlight a couple videos I stumbled across today. The first was done by a high school class in Danbury Connecticut. Please visit http://www.dhsthepromise.com/.

The second is http://www.thedreamthatwasamerica.com. They are both great videos. Unlike the raw footage shot by an individual, these are highly polished videos put together by teams. Yet I think they illustrate other aspects of what can be done with videos shared online.

In my email with Tim Salem, who wrote “The Promise” video, I talked a little bit about creating some sort of ‘behind the scenes’ video about how “The Promise” was put together. The idea is to encourage and empower other people, whether they are individuals doing citizen journalism, or high school classes creating powerful projects.

Are there other videos out there that we should know about?