Teacher Tube: Fear of YouTube? Fear of Technology?

Several months ago, Alan Levine (cogdog blog) put up a video in YouTube called "I didn't Know You Could Do That With YouTube"  for a K-12 technology conference.  I responded with this video.  The videos were part of an educator's group and there was this response from Karen Richardson and expressed frustration about how YouTube is blocked.   This got me curious about the educational content on YouTube and Harry and I did some guided research for clips about earthquakes related to a school project.   I was thinking at the time, wouldn't it be cool for a youtube just devoted to instructional and educational videos?  Like the ones I'm interested in making and sharing.

I discovered "TeacherTube" last night:

TeacherTube is an online media property for people to watch and share Education videos worldwide through a Web experience for everyone.

I got very excited because the first thing I stumbled upon was a screencast on using the free capture tool camstudio which I just added to my screencasting primer!  About ten minutes later, in an act of kismet, I got an email via YouTube from a teacher at middle school asking me to join TeacherTube and upload my videos.  I went back and discovered the video from CoolCat Teacher.

Comments

[Jason]

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. 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.

TeacherTube is designed to be a safe place for learners of all ages so schools can feel confident allowing TeacherTube into the classrooms. We also understand TeacherTube will only be as good as the content our community members places 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.