June 17 - Teachers.Net Tip of the Day:
Streaming Teacher Video
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Our tip for the 17th day of June is Streaming Teacher Videos. Teachers.Net has made the leap to video on the web, featuring great teacher videos every month in our online teacher magazine, The Teachers.Net Gazette!

Many years ago, in the earliest days of Internet multimedia, Teachers.Net sought ways to collect, store, and serve great video, slide shows, and live action presentations on the web.  Although the technology was, in theory, available, it wasn't until the emergence of YouTube that we finally found a way to cost-effectively store and efficiently stream high-quality video to the Teachers.Net community.

YouTube features millions of videos, with tens of thousands of new videos being added daily.  And virtually every video on YouTube can be directly embedded into any webpage, to bring the massive video library of YouTube to any website anywhere.  In an instant, a video library greater than all the movie studios' put together was available for us to feature directly on our website!

Among this incredible amount of videos on YouTube, are thousands of videos that are by teachers, about education, or of interest to educators.  Teachers.Net's Gazette Editor Kathleen Carpenter scours YouTube every month, looking for great video content to include directly in our teacher-produced web magazine, The Teachers.Net Gazette.

Each issue of the Gazette features five or more videos that we think teachers will enjoy.  In addition to the great content already on YouTube, Kathleen is always soliciting new contributions directly from Teachers.Net teachers.  If you have a video that you think would be appropriate for the Gazette, follow these simple directions to get it uploaded and submitted to the Gazette.

Submitting Your Video To The Teachers.Net Gazette

• Upload your video to YouTube
• Contact the Gazette editor and suggest your video - include a link to the video on YouTube

That's it - we'll review your video suggestion and if we feel it's appropriate and we have room, we'll include it in the next Gazette issue, or the next available publication date.

Suggest A Video For The Gazette
You don't need to be the author of the video to suggest it for inclusion on Teachers.Net.  Simply note the URL (or name and author) of the video, and send it to us at the Gazette.  Videos can also be hosted on TeacherTube.com - or any other video hosting site that features webpage embedding.


Here are some great videos that we've featured in recent issues of the Teachers.Net Gazette.  I hope we have the opportunity to showcase your video or suggestions in upcoming issues of the Gazette too!


Teachers.Net Gazette, June 2008

• James Blunt sings Carry You Home
• Perfect Literacy Centers for Elementary Classroom
• Quincy, Massachusetts Teachers Demonstrate
• Operation Opt Out State Exams - Parent Info Campaign
• Google Docs
• Applying Trigonometric Functions

Teachers.Net Gazette, May 2008

• A Hidden Lesson
• Baptism By Fire
• ESL vocabulary lesson
• I teach, therefore I learn
• Ruben's Tube Physics Experiment
• Mother's Day Video: Kids Answer Questions About Their Moms

Teachers.Net Gazette, April 2008

• A classic and hilarious math lesson with Abbott and Costello
• Education for Tomorrow in a rapidly changing world! Dramatic and interesting!
• Technology! Use what students love in order to teach more effectively
• Problem Based Learning - Creating a good driving question
• Earth Day rant by Lewis Black on The Daily Show
• Middle School Science Lesson: Convection Currents in Earth's Mantle Lab

Teachers.Net Gazette, March 2008

• A Teacher Leader Speaks About Merit Pay
• Tai Chi Relaxes Kids Between Lessons
• Veggie Tale for St. Patrick's Day
• A Dad On Asperger's Syndrome and Dr. Asperger's research
• Make a Worm Farm! Animals Inspire Robotics

Keep up the great submissions and suggestions, and if you haven't had a chance, check out the Teachers.Net Gazette, and especially the wonderful teacher video contributions featured every month.  I hope to see your work in the Gazette soon!

 
Bob Reap
Site Developer
Teachers.Net
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