TeacherTube serves as an online community designed for sharing teacher resources worldwide. The site allows you to search and watch educationally relevant videos from slideshows to lesson plans to student projects and everything in between. Teachers can also upload their own video resources for others to watch and borrow. The videos can be shown straight from the site or can be embedded into other presentations. You can comment on the videos to provide insight into how you may use them, tag videos to make them easy to locate, rate videos on 1-5 scale, or even bookmark them.
TeacherTube can be used as a tool to share all the hard work we do as teachers each and every day. We are always saying, “Don’t reinvent the wheel,” and this site provides a perfect opportunity to follow that rule. If someone else has already spent the time to create it, why not borrow it or adapt it for my own needs? Or why not use something small like this to enhance a lesson you already do? The possibilities of using these videos in the classroom and with our students are endless because the subject matter covered on the site is expanding every second. Teachers are typically very good at sharing because we know how hard everyone works, and TeacherTube is a perfect way to showcase our sharing abilities.
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