Yes, another 'Tube!!
Jason Smith, 2007, Super Sock Monkey uses the library Catalogue, viewed 5th July 2010 (date of first viewing unknown), < http://www.teachertube.com/ >
At first glance TeacherTube is very similar to other video sharing sites, which is not surprising as most of them are modelled off of YouTube and each other. However, TeacherTube can not only host other media such as documents, photos and audio recordings, it had dedicated itself to hosting teacher and learning resources. This is useful in a number of ways. As an independent website, TeacherTube can be used by anyone around the world, from any school or other education facility, which offers users a wide range of resources that they may not have had access to before. It also offers the Teachers who use it a place to host informative videos for their students that is not a site used wholesale by the Internet public for dumping their video content.
The website is the brainchild of Jason Smith, who at the time had 14 years of experience working on various levels of public schools. It is, from what I can see, a family-run site; created and developed by Jason, his wife (who also has education experience) and his brother (who is the site Webmaster). The only problem that i could find with the site was that it had advertisements on it, but this is a free sign-up site and the advertisements are not greatly intrusive.
The video that I viewed was entitled Super Sock Monkey Uses the Library Catalogue. the reason i chose it was mainly because the title interested me but also because the video is aimed at the younger students of an elementary school (like primary school), trying to teach them about the Library catalogue, using the sock monkey characters (of which there are quite a few videos). This is a technique used by a lot of children's television shows that are focused on education. I thought it was a useful video, even though it's really aimed at the students of one school, because it shows just one way that Librarians and Library workers can make a connection with young children and teach them some of what they need to use the Library.
- Piff
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Great - a really good choice for a school library. Thumberlina had one too with the Cookie Monster but I like thisone much better as it at least shows them using a computer. The cookie Monster one is funny though.
ReplyDeleteA good annotated citation but remember to try to keep the words down - short and succinct is the go.
PS the music on this is really smooth, isn't it?