Video Sharing For Teachers

A new video sharing site has popped up on the Internet called Teacher Tube. The site is specifically designed as a social sharing context for educational video content that is "safe". It is being contrasted with Youtube and Google Video with respect to the safety and appropriateness of the content. I took a spin of the site last night and found many hilarious and interesting videos. I think most teachers (and administrators) will appreciate this first video, which is a take-off of the hilarious Sprint network commercials.

Also, checkout this video. It is one in a series created by a teacher (from Texas) that is rapping about mathematical concepts. It is a little hard to hear all the lyrics, but the production is innovative and fun. I think these students might remember these concepts, what do you think?


In addition to these videos, there are videos on teaching concepts (estimating area under a curve or running literacy circles), student videos, and much more. In addition, it is a social site in the youtube model that allows for favoriting and commenting.

Videos can be flagged for inappropriate content as well. How they the site owners will determine what is inappropriate will be interesting. For example, the video I embedded at the top uses a copy right protected song (Push It). Will this video be removed? Should it be removed?

Thanks to Cool Cat Teacher who mentioned this site in her blog

What uses do you see for the content? What about for student work?