TeacherTube
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| URL | http://www.teachertube.com |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Educational |
| Registration | optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Teachertube, LLC YouTube |
| Created by | User content |
| Launched | 2007-03-06 |
| Alexa rank | 30,879 (April 2009)[1] |
| Current status | active |
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 site has run a number of creative educational competitions, in association with companies such as Texas Instruments[4] and Interwrite.[5] Institutions such as major libraries are using the service to disseminate information.[6]
See Also
Citations
- ↑ "Traffic Details for teachertube.com". Alexa Internet, Inc.. 2008. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/teachertube.com. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ↑ "TeacherTube Safe, Reliable Resource". American Instutite for History Teaching. http://www.americaninstituteforhistory.org/. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ↑ "Educators get TeacherTube". NY Daily News. December 10, 2007. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2007/12/09/2007-12-09_educators_get_teachertube.html. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ↑ "Fayetteville math video contest". Reuters. May 5, 2008. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS141185+05-May-2008+PRN20080505. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ↑ "Interwrite, TeacherTube Launch School Video Contest". T.H.E. Journal. September 27, 2007. http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21249. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ↑ "Press release". South Carolina State Library. April 21, 2008. http://listserv.scsl.state.sc.us/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0804&L=scsl-press&F=P&P=1620. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
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