Omnivorous Surfer

Reading an old blog post on Edutopia, I was reminded of TeacherTube, a site I had looked at quite some time ago. This is a site for teachers to post videos (and docs, audio, and photos) for use by the educational community. The blog describes it this way:

...it's a place that takes advantage of what uploaded, shared video offers -- community, customization, sharing, creating, and learning from each other.
According to TeacherTube, community members can

• upload, tag, and share videos worldwide.
• upload support files to attach 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 Web sites using video embeds or application programming interfaces.
• make videos public or private; users can elect to broadcast their videos publicly or share them privately with those they invite.

 There are tutorials on a vast number of topics, from applications to using different technologies in the classroom. Videos are available which could be used to augment curricular materials. It was suggested by one commenter that since the videos download slowly sometimes, they could be downloaded ahead of time.

I think this looks like a great FREE resource for teachers, for both themselves and their students.