Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Youtube and Teachertube

This week, during our lesson, we looked at Youtube and Teachertube.
Youtube: A very popular web sharing site that lets anyone store short videos for private or public viewing.
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=youtube&i=57119,00.asp
Teachertube: A video sharing website ... designed to allow those in the educational industry ... to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeacherTube

It was definitely a fun lesson. Firstly we needed to produce, direct and act in a film - this in itself was a life lesson (the lesson being, I was not created a movie star). I loved the cameras the Polytechnic allowed us to use (and have since been told St Therese's is looking into purchasing some!) I cannot remember their name though - does anyone know?
Anyway, my film was on checking out a laptop and the library staff were kind enough to allow me behind the circulation desk (and even showed me their library system and where everything is kept).
After this, the fun part ... uploading to Youtube. In theory, this should have been very easy. Just signing on to Youtube, naming the film, tagging it, adding a few details and then uploading it. But, of course, rarely does life work the way we expect it to and so was the case here. Technical problems at the Polythechnic interfered with our (almost) perfect day and, alas, our films are still on our memory sticks while the whole world awaits their release on the world wide web! Needless to say, we were all devastated ...
Teachertube: I did not have a chance to view this enough to give an educated opinion on it. What I did see, however, was all from America and all, well, very American. I will definitely explore this more this week.

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