Trying to steer your students through YouTube with all its distractions – the latest Miley Cyrus video for example – is a pain at the best of time, especially when you don’t know what delightful things they might accidentally stumble upon. Two alternative sites you might like to try are John Locker and TeacherTube.
John Locker is a new hosting sites that aims to cull the best educational videos from a variety of hosting sources. The range of documentaries and videos seems very good and you can find great documentaries from the BBC, among others. Videos seem to be high quality too – smaller than YouTube but much clearer because of that. I give it two thumbs up.
Here is an example:
Visit it at http://www.johnlocker.com/
TeacherTube is more of a hosting site for teachers to add their own videos, and is therefore more like YouTube. While there are some interesting videos, it seems to cater to those hyperactive teachers that like to dress up and reenact the Battle of Hastings or Gettysburg. Heavily weighted towards the US education market.
Some examples:
web site: http://www.teachertube.com/index.php
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