TeacherTube




 * DESCRIPTION**

Like [|YouTube], [|Teacher Tube] is an online community where educators, teaching grades K through 12, can share instructional videos on various topics. Although the site provides an opportunity for anyone to post their videos, the site is protected and filtered so that it is safe for all educators and students to use.

With Teacher Tube, members of the community can do the following:


 * Upload, [|tag (metadata)], and share videos worldwide.
 * Upload support files to attach educational activities, assessments, lesson plans, notes, and other file formats to videos.
 * Browse and rate hundreds of videos uploaded by other community members.
 * Find, join, and create video groups to connect with people in similar interest groups.
 * Customize an account by subscribing to member videos, saving favorites, and creating playlists.
 * Integrate the Teacher Tube videos on other sites using [|video embedding].
 * Publish videos that can be viewed privately or publicly.


 * HISTORY**

Teacher Tube was created by Jason Smith, an educator, coach, and administrator for public school campuses and their districts. His vision of this community stems from the question asked, “How can teachers utilize other educator's work to build upon their own lessons?” With the assistance of Adam Smith, Jason’s younger brother, they created the site. With Jodie Smith, Jason’s wife, they together compiled videos to post to the site. Jason, Adam, and Jodie all come from extensive education backgrounds in such areas as curriculum and technology coordination, faculty, staff, administration backgrounds, and most importantly, as educators.


 * IMPACT ON TEACHING AND LEARNING**

The beauty of a resource like this one is that in time's of assistance on subject matter, this site provides limitless opportunities for educator's to see how other educator's teach the same material. Especially for pre-service and first-year teachers, a site like this one can assist an individual with methodology and standards in many types of lessons.


 * EXAMPLES**

The following Teacher Tube video clip is version 2.0 of the widely acclaimed "Did You Know?" (also known as "Shift Happens") by [|Karl Fisch] and [|Scott McLeod].

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The following Teacher Tube video clip is of a Pre-Calculus teacher covering the basics of linear regression.

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 * REFERENCES**

http://www.teachertube.com/about.php


 * EXTERNAL LINKS**

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6f2c2eba77f39993d118&page=1&viewtype=&category= http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=17701372 http://www.youtube.com [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata]) http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/02/28/karl-fisch-shift-happens/ http://www.scottmcleod.net/

This wiki page was created by Christine Kashiwabara, a student in the graduate program for Educational Technology 602: Teaching and Training Technologies.
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