I’ve been keeping an eye on TeacherTube, there’s a lot of videos going up now which is pretty exciting!

Unfortunately here it is often not the teachers or schools who get the say over what gets blocked in their classrooms - it’s usually the tech support guys in the local council usually, or sometimes the head of education. I should say that it’s not always because of rubbish reasons but it can still be frustrating when you find a great site at home and then find you can’t access it at school.

Good luck with TeacherTube!

Stuart

Thank you for sharing TeacherTube with the world through your blog.

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.

Regarding the cost of bandwidth, you are correct it is expensive, however, the price of bandwidth is dropping over a third in price per year. We are sensitive to advertising and its impact on TeacherTube being school friendly. We are currently seeking partnerships with educational companies and applying for grants. However, we are always open to new ideas. So please encourage your readers to give us input, for TeacherTube is learning as the site continues to grow.

As for the rest of your post, its crucial that staff in schools realise that by using the social media tools contained within Glow in new and innovative ways they will be actively evolving it. Its long term success may very well depend on staff feeding back into the the system its shorcomings and what exactly they want it to do for them, their classes and the pupils.

I always find that the hardest part of blogging is coming up with a title for each post, this title doesn’t really match up with the post very well.

I saw TeacherTube a week or so ago but hadn’t been back since. My main concern for it is the cost of keeping it going, there’s only so much advertising you can get away with before it starts getting blocked in schools and a site like that eats up huge amounts of expensive bandwidth.