week 1 -teachertube

week 1 - teachertube

Name of the Tool
- Teachertube

URL of the Tool
- TeacherTube.com

Please select the one, primary category for this tool:
- Communication Tool

Please describe this tool in your own words in about 250 words.
- The goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. 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 such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training as well as uploaded by students videos and college courses. As of March 2010, TeacherTube has over 525,000+ educational members and over 200,000 educational videos. It has found favour with educators for whom YouTube content is blocked by content filtering systems.


What do you need to know before using this tool? (What skills do you need to have?)
- Need to have a computer recording video availablity with microphone

What do you need to have before using this tool?
- Internet connection

How do you use this tool? (Write the basic steps using a numbered list)
- 1. type on internet: TeacherTube.com
- 2. Type the topic you want to explore, eg health or nutrition
- 3. View presentations and choose several of them that you consider an important tool in learning

Please create an example with this tool and either embed in your blog or submit the URL.
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=135872&title=Anatomy_Project__Functioning_Kidney&vpkey=

Please describe a scenario of how you might use this tool in a teaching environment

It can be used in online education of patients, through an easy and free access to internet. It presents a basic, school project explaining the function and role of kidney. It can be used in general pediatric nephrology clinic visit to educate patients and the families on the function and role of kidney. The video can be played on the big wall screen in the waiting room of Renal Clinic. It is prepared by the school student, so it is easy to understand for any age child.

What are the advantages of using this tool in a teaching environment?
It is educational, can be entertaining, easy access, can be done at free time from home computer, can be accessed as many times as needed for learning

What are the disadvantages of using this tool in a teaching environment?
Disadvantages are the wide access via internet. Those who participate in presentation need to be aware that anybody can see the presenters, so they should not disclose any personal information as well as they should be aware that the information delivered in the presentation should be the most accurate one, as it could not be changed or modified.