[TeacherTube] is a video-based, open and free-of-charge community, similar to YouTube. It was launched on March 6, 2007. Their goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. It is targeted at teachers, schools, and home learners. Teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. But it also claims professional development with teachers teaching teachers.

It was Jason Smith, a 14-year veteran educator who initiated TeacherTube, earlier qualified as a teacher, coach, campus administrator and district administrator in public schools. He is heavily engaged to utilize the power of the read/write web for learning together with his younger brother Adam, who is a digital native, with technical skills. Jason's wife, Jodie, joined the team to start populating the site with videos and helped improve the communication. She too has 14 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, campus technology integrator, and district curriculum coordinator.

With TeacherTube, community members can:

• Upload, tag and share and browse community videos
  • Support Files to attach educational Actvities, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Notes, and Other file formats
• Find, join and create video groups to connect with like-minded people
• 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.

Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value.

A lot of videos come as machinima from SecondLife.

Their site is free of charge, based on some advertising.

This intro is extracted from their [About] and their [Blog]. The author thanks Cathy Arreguin, who gave this link in SLED, the public mailing list for Educators, engaged in SecondLife. -- FridemarPache

Discussion This is an excellent platform for wikizens, to launch their own videos on knowledge, created in the wiki-community. Each wiki can embed the videos by way of DiiGo and TrailFire annotations. -- [fridemar]