Teacher Tube: Video Sharing for Teachers

We know about YouTube. YouTube is a video sharing website in which anyone can upload videos for sharing for free. However, YouTube has a broad category and this might not be beneficial because of time consuming. The education world has moved into education web 2.0 where many education practitioners use the Internet as the resources of information and also discussion.

Based on the needs for education practitioners for reliable web 2.0 sites which would be very useful, Jason Smith built TeacherTube, a video sharing website like YouTube which is only for education matters. Jason Smith is a 14 year educator who has been a teacher, coach, campus administrator and district administrator in public schools.

TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007 and has got Google Page Rank of 6 just in 11 months. This website is in the position of under 150,000 top websites in the world according to Alexa and has 100,000 page views a day. While they claim to have 1 million page views a month and more than 9,000 videos have been uploaded and watched by about 40,000 users.

Jason Smith had the idea after feeling frustrated with other methods of sharing media throughout his school in McKinney, Texas. Then he and his brother, Adam developed the site. Jason's wife, Jodie, joined and helped to promote the site with through her TeacherTube's blog. Jodie also has 14 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, campus technology integrator, and district curriculum coordinator.

TeacherTube is easy to use because its features are almost the same like YouTube. TeacherTube.com, partnered with Interwrite Learning held a video contest with the grand prize being a complete Interwrite classroom makeover worth $15,000. Also from March until December 2007 they held laptop video contest where teachers who upload videos would get points. Wikispaces will also provides widget to wikispaces users to embed video from TeacherTube.

TeacherTube is very smart and beneficial for teachers and also students as they can learn from other people around the world to make learning effective and fun. Moreover, it is for free.

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