I was thrilled when I discovered it .. and I'll tell you why - I had been searching all over the place for screencast on using a particular piece of re open source software. couldn't find it. I land on TeacherTube and viola - it's there.
I just hope they don't get a cease and decease letter for violating any trademark ...

 

I was thrilled when I discovered it .. and I'll tell you why - I had been searching all over the place for screencast on using a particular piece of re open source software. couldn't find it. I land on TeacherTube and viola - it's there.
I just hope they don't get a cease and decease letter for violating any trademark ...

 

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but Google Reader isn't showing this video correctly in the feed. It shows the error message "XML config file not found or incomplete." I am way out of my league for troubleshooting on video for this, but maybe you can find a solution.

Thanks!

 

Hi Vicki,

After blogging about TeacherTube the other day http://johnp.wordpress.com/, (and referencing your contributions to it :)), I got the following Comment from Jason Smith, jsmith(at)teachertube.com

"Hi,

Thank you for sharing TeacherTube with the world through your blog.

I am Jason one of 3 co-founders of TeacherTube. Along with my wife, Jodie and brother Adam we created TeacherTube to form a community where the best teachers in the world are sharing their best practices with other teachers and with students. My wife and I are 14 year veteran public educators and my brother is our tech guru.

TeacherTube is designed to be a safe place for learners of all ages so schools can feel confident allowing TeacherTube into the classrooms. We also understand TeacherTube will only be as good as the content our community members places into the site. So it is very important to us that our community members keep high standards for uploads through the ability to flag and comment on any video lesson.

Please encourage your readers to give us input, for TeacherTube is learning as the site continues to grow."

Given your dip into the tube already, I am surprised he hasn't sent a similar message to you. It is re-assuring though to find out the obvious credentials behind the project. Let's hope things work out as they envisage.

 

I just discovered TeacherTube. I hope it makes it. Our school blocks YouTube. This is a great place to post teacher and student made videos. Thanks.

 

Anyone know how to download the file so that you can have access to it offline?

Thanks for sharing this! I hadn't seen it yet!
I'll have to update my "Hacking YouTube" wiki page to "Hacking TeacherTube!" Sigh.

;->


Miguel Guhlin
http://mguhlin.net

 

Are the community guidelines for teachertube much different than youtube?

While this might be cool at the start, when we get 10,000 videos on the site will we be sure this site is "safe". This is the question I got from my administrator.

I think we shouldn't assume its safer just because teachers post it. And also, how do we know teachers are posting and not some random dude?

If someone is going through and flagging "bad" posts that is the same as youtube. That is easy when there are 142 posts. If this goes big there will 10,000 videos on here very soon. Then it will be a challenge.

Anyway, I need a way to convince my bosses that this site will be different. Any ideas?