I have watched YouTube once in awhile in the past. I get a monthly newsletter from a book designer and she posts how-to videos to YouTube. When I taught high school students, they were always suggesting videos that I "really ought to see." Though I had heard of teachertube, I hadn't really looked closely at it before.
Our school does let us access both teachertube and schooltube, though we cannot go to YouTube. I looked at several videos on both those sites and some of them could be used in my classroom. The visual quality of some of the videos left much to be desired, but the brevity of the films was definitely a plus. The videos on schooltube appeared to be primarily student/teacher made, but some of the videos on teachertube are more professional in appearance. Since I am attending a TAH grant workshop that AIHE is partially presenting, I was particularly interested in the videos they have on teachertube. Certainly many of these videos could be used to introduce or reinforce information in the classroom. They might also be inspiration to students to produce their own films, or at least slideshows, of content material.
I watched a couple presentations on TED and though they wouldn't be useful in my elementary classroom, they are great thought provokers for those of us who need to escape the world of ten year olds on occasion.
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