Pick Your Tool....I pick TeacherTube!!

Dear School Administrator,

I have just completed a course in technology as part of my professional development. During this time, I had the opportunity to learn about and investigate several of the technology tools currently available. I think that many of these tools could be used in the classroom, but I was especially impressed with an internet site that shares instructional teacher videos called TeacherTube. It is very much like the internet site YouTube, but it is primarily for educators, schools and home learners.

I have investigated this relatively new website which was established in March 2007. It is free to use and the website has a very good help section on how to use it. With today's economy and limited resources, I think TeacherTube could be a very beneficial tool to share or view instructional videos as well as access support files (lesson plans, assessments, etc) shared by other educators. Technology is becoming part of everything we do, and I believe that we should begin to use it as an enhancement of our professional development. TeacherTube could provide an online community for educators to share their ideas and methods via an instructional videos.

If we want to always be improving as educators, I think we have to have easy access to what our peers are doing in the field. Otherwise, we become stagnant in our methods. TeacherTube provides that venue and I believe it will be very beneficial to make it available to the teachers in our school. I hope that you will take a few moments to visit TeacherTube at www.teachertube.com and realize that it is a very good site for educators to share resources and have fun!

Very Respectfully,
Kathleen Bowen