Teacher Tube

1. The goal of Teacher Tube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

2. Teacher Tube community members can:
· Upload, tag and share videos worldwide. Upload Support Files to attach your video.
· Educational Activities, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Notes, and Other file formats to your
video.
· Browse hundreds of videos uploaded by community members.
· Find, join and create video groups to connect with people who have similar interests.
· Customize the experience by subscribing to member videos, saving favorites, and creating
playlists.
· Integrate TeacherTube videos on websites using video embeds or APIs.
· Make videos public or private - users can elect to broadcast their videos publicly or share
them privately with those they invite.

3. Teacher Tube is dependent upon the interactions of its members in order to support the goals/purpose? That is the members are teachers teaching teachers in a safe venue. It provides professional development. The best quality of the community in terms of interaction is the myriad of videos that are shared by its members. Also at any time the member can make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos. Teacher Tube staff review flagged sites and will remove any inappropriate posts. With more collegial commentary and discussion through messaging and responses, the quality of this resource will only increase.

4. If you were a member, what changes would you like to see made in the community interactions to make it more suitable for you as a learner?
The videos are listed in categories which are nice, but there was not a special education video listed. If I were a member I would try to infuse the idea of inclusion and special education into the community. I would encourage teachers of special needs students to submit ideas, videos, lesson plans and activities to share with others.