Upload University: Teachers Get Online | Edutopia. For most teachers, the nuances of what goes on inside their colleagues' classrooms are a mystery. Jason Smith wants to peek behind those doors with a high-tech tool -- streaming videos over the Internet. Smith, superintendent of the Melissa Independent School District, in Melissa, Texas, launched the video-sharing Web site TeacherTube in March of 2007. In an era when student improvement is a federal mandate, Smith says, many teachers want to change but lack a forum to find ideas and share theirs with others.
"We just don't share even with our colleagues across the hall," Smith says. "We're being held accountable for reaching every child, and that means we have to understand that we can't continue to teach children the way we have in the past. " TeacherTube has been an instant hit -- since March 6, Smith says, more than 13.6 million visitors have been on the site. The videos on TeacherTube vary widely in presentation. In a random selection of videos, Mrs. A Forum That Works Alexandra R. How to Use Online Video in Your Classroom. It's one thing to talk about Mount St. Helens erupting in science class. It's another thing altogether to watch a video of the mountain's summit exploding into dust. Teachers all across the country are finding that judiciously chosen videos help students engage more deeply with the subject matter, and recall the information they've learned longer. "A lot of students these days expect information to be presented in a flashy, entertaining way, so videos can help draw them in," says Larry Sanger, executive director of WatchKnowLearn, a site that collects education-related videos.
Your YouTube Primer Though YouTube is blocked in many classrooms because of inappropriate materials on the site, there are many valuable videos that do further learning. Short of joining the YouTube for Schools program, here are a other few ways to separate the wheat from the chaff: Limit your searches to respected sources. When choosing clips for the classroom, keep them short. First, register with YouTube. TeacherTube Is a YouTube for Educators. A while back, I posted a blog entry titled "Online Interactivity for Educators: A Teacher's Tour of YouTube. " Many people replied with comments, questions, suggestions, and so on. A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator's version. According to TeacherTube's founders, "We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.
" The site officially launched in March 2007 and is slowly but surely gaining popularity. I've been sharing it and working with teachers in various districts to learn to take advantage of this kind of opportunity. What a great place for us to upload short instructional videos -- or long ones; there's no limit on size files or video length. Would you like to know how to make large posters for your classroom using Microsoft Excel? I don't think it's at all meant to be a replacement for YouTube. Check TeacherTube out. Welcome to the Egan Library proxy server! Welcome to the Egan Library proxy server!
Improving Preservice Teachers’ Science Knowledge by Creating, Reviewing and Publishing Slowmations to Teacher Tube. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Charleston, SC, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-67-9 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA Abstract “Slowmation” (abbreviated from “Slow Animation”) is a new but simple form of stop-motion animation that supports learners in creating their own animations of science concepts. This paper presents a study of preservice elementary teachers in two science method classes (18 in one class in 2007 and 12 in another class in 2008) to ascertain if they improved their science knowledge when they used a three phase framework to create, review and publish slowmations to a web site (Teacher Tube). Qualitative data (three interviews, two concept maps and the animations as knowledge artifacts) collected from each preservice teacher showed that nearly all of them increased their science content knowledge as a result of using the framework.
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