Comments on: Tubing For Teachers

By: Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » TeacherTube: YouTube for Teachers

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:56:27 +0000

[...] day after most of you. I just searched my feeds and it popped up first (in my subscriptions) at the CogDogBlog on the 24th, followed by The Tech Savvy Educator on the 27th, and a host of others on the 28th. [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:03:53 +0000

Thanks Jason for the effort you are doing. I’d like to see it really take off.

I cannot remember if I came across it, but hope it is clear to users what the criteria are for what stays and what goes, or that content is reviewed. And I hope you and your family team do not get overwhelmed with having to manually review content. Can the site users assist in anyway by flagging content??

cheers, Alan

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:32:03 +0000

Hi Alan,
Thank you for sharing TeacherTube with the world through your blog. We have had many people contact us in the last 24 hours asking who are we. One of our members highly recommended to us that we get who we are out quickly.

So for your readers, 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.

And Beth, I can not apologize enough for deleting your video. TeacherTube is designed to be a safe place for learners of all ages so schools can feel confident allowing TeacherTube into the classrooms. So while I was deleting some videos that were just not a good fit for TeacherTube, I accidentally deleted Beth’s. I’m so embarrassed by that.

Another thing we understand is TeacherTube will only be as good as the content our community members place 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.

I hope your readers will give us input, for TeacherTube is learning as the site continues to grow.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:16:49 +0000

he he he … teachertube deleted my screencast in an over zealous attempt to decrud teachertube … I uploaded it again.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:05:26 +0000

Cheryl– I was referring to the synchronous sessions. My remarks were general based upon the use of video by our presenters. A few had done QT, but they did not optimize the size or compression.

It would seem multiple approaches would be best- a QT given to them for their site, but offer alternative links to YouTube/blip as other options.

Glad to hear you got some action. I don’t think the current set up for our poster sessions is optimal. We made extra effort to mention them during the live sessions.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:00:48 +0000

Re: “In our conference, the platform that worked the best for pushing web video out in Elluminate ( as a web tour) was content from YouTube.”

Was this your first time pushing YouTube video through Elluminate, and consequently during the conference you just figured out it worked best?

Because the instructions for what to provide said QuickTime format was preferred. My video ended up in there at the wrong size, though that was corrected per an email request, and they told me it went in that way by default. But I had the file hosted on Blip.tv. The Elluminate producer could just as easily have grabbed the Flash version and my guess is it would have worked just like YouTube - ie, better than it did in QT format.

Got thoughts?

Not trashing your efforts. The video played after all, and I estimate it got somewhere around 60 views during the conference, most of which were attributable to conference attendees.

And the conference was fun. Sorry I missed the SL reception.

By: Education: The Video at bavatuesdays

Education: The Video at bavatuesdays — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:10:27 +0000

[...] own prove to be “just another silo?” This is a question Alan Levine asked in his recent post about TeacherTube -a site based on the YouTube model that deals specifically with educational [...]

By: Beth Kanter

Beth Kanter — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:34:00 +0000

Alan,

You hit the nail on the head with that question about silos. I’ve been asking that as it relates to various social networking platforms focused on social change. However, I think in this context - educational instructional video it might work.

I am wondering when YouTube/Google will send a cease and decease letter for trademark infringement.

There’s another variation of the red logo here:
http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/2007/01/new_iranian_vid.html