TeacherTube
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Type of site | Educational |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Teachertube, LLC YouTube |
| Created by | User content |
| URL | http://www.teachertube.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | optional |
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 K-12 and college courses. As of July 2008, the website contained over 26,000 videos. It has found favour with educators for whom YouTube content is blocked by content filtering systems.[2]
History
TeacherTube was launched on March 6, 2007 and was initiated by Jason Smith, a teacher from McKinney, Texas and his wife and brother. The site now gains more than a million page views per month. [3] The s
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See Also
Citations
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- ^ "Educators get TeacherTube". NY Daily News. December 10, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ^ "Fayetteville math video contest". Reuters. May 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ^ "Interwrite, TeacherTube Launch School Video Contest". T.H.E. Journal. September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-10 ANDREW LEE RULES!.
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