- TeacherTube
Infobox Website
name = TeacherTube
caption =
url = http://www.teachertube.com
commercial = No
type = Educational
language = English
registration = optional
owner = Teachertube, LLC
launch date =2007-03-06
current status = active
author = User content
alexa = 41,118 (July 2008) [cite web
url=http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/teachertube.com|title=Traffic Details for teachertube.com
accessdate=2008-07-10
year=2008
work=
publisher=Alexa Internet, Inc.]TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to, and based on,
YouTube . It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of college courses. As of July 2008, the website contains over 26,000 videos. It has found favour with educators who find that YouTube content is barred from educational networks by content filtering systems. [cite web |url=http://www.americaninstituteforhistory.org/ |title=TeacherTube Safe, Reliable Resource|accessdate=2008-07-10 |publisher= American Instutite for History Teaching]History
TeacherTube was launched on
March 6 ,2007 and was initiated by Jason Smith, a teacher fromMcKinney, Texas and his wife and brother. The site now gains more than a million page views per month. [cite web |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2007/12/09/2007-12-09_educators_get_teachertube.html |title=Educators get TeacherTube|accessdate=2008-07-10 |publisher= NY Daily News| date=December 10, 2007] The site has run a number of creative educational competitions, in association with companies such asTexas Instruments [cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS141185+05-May-2008+PRN20080505 |title=Fayetteville math video contest|accessdate=2008-07-10 |publisher= Reuters| date=May 5, 2008] and Interwrite. [cite web |url=http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21249|title=Interwrite, TeacherTube Launch School Video Contest|accessdate=2008-07-10 |publisher=T.H.E. Journal| date=September 27, 2007] Institutions such as major libraries are using the service to disseminate information. [cite web |url=http://listserv.scsl.state.sc.us/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0804&L=scsl-press&F=P&P=1620|title=Press release|accessdate=2008-07-10 |publisher=South Carolina State Library| date=April 21, 2008]Citations
External links
* [http://www.teachertube.com TeacherTube Homepage]
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