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BP13_2009103_Web 2.0 Tools - TeacherTube

BP13_2009103_Web 2.0 Tools

TeacherTube

TeacherTube is a video hosting site, similar to YouTube. The videos and files art designed to be used for educational purposes. Creating an account was very easy and straightforward. Once created, there is some basic user information that needs to be added, and then you can begin uploading videos when ready.
Uploaded videos may also be stored in personal Video Albums, which would be very handy to categorize items uploaded at TeacherTube. The categories could be either by date, subject area, class, whatever you desire. Once you have selected or created a category, videos may be uploaded. TeacherTube allows a variety of video types, and states that there is no maximum length or file size. It does point out that if there is difficulty uploading a large file, that it may be better to split it and put it into two or more separate video files and then try the upload. When an attempt was made to upload, it did show a 100MB limit on file size.
I have used TeacherTube in the past as a viewer to present things at school, and decided to signup and try a download. For this testing purpose, I created a category, chose a one minute video that I had previously created that was a 5.5 MB mp4 video that was 60 seconds in length.
The file uploaded quite quickly and without any problem. When the video had finished uploading, a message popped up stating that it had completed and would be available shortly. The video did not show up on my site for quite some time. Two hours later it was still not showing that it was available. So I tried a .mov file for upload. The Estimated Time Left had little meaning as it show less than one minute for at least three minues, and the seconds could not be read as they flashed around. It took about 3-4 minutes to upload a 32 MB video. The message is “Successfully uploaded! Your video will be reviewed by the TeacherTube staff and displayed within a couple of minutes.”
I had the file set as private. There is a section to invite people to view videos, and to save trusted users for the private videos. I tried viewing the files after it had processed the video, and did a search to find the video.
TeacherTube may also be followed in Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, and by email.
Overall, the process worked quite well, the website did seem just a little sluggish in terms of speed, but not bad enough to prevent one from using the site.
Posted by Dave Nelson at 3:08 PM
1 comments:

Billy Goins said...

Dave,
I really like this resource. From what I can tell, it has all the functionality of Youtube.com with content specifically for students and teachers.

My students and I are developing a school news report along with video based projects. Within just a matter of minutes, I was able to find several sample videos to show my classes.

It will be nice to have a site that my students can view and contribute to with a reasonable amount of safety and confidence.

I also noticed a banner ad for a media program at some college in Florida, Full Sail University. I may check that out as well.