Web+2.0

Teachertube This web 2.0 style website is modeled much like the familiar youtube site. It is full of videos posted by teachers that can be used in the classroom. As I was browsing the site i decided to search a few history topics that I would cover in my US history courses and saw several videos related to each. Much like youtube not every video that pops up is what you are looking for but if you were to sort through the options you could find a clip on almost any subject and bookmark them to use for class. More popular topics have many videos to choose from so I definitely recommend spending some time outside of class searching for good clips ahead of time and then bookmarking them. When I searched for "Pearl Harbor" I recieved 4 pages of results.

This will be useful for me to find clips to share with my students, but I actiually think getting the students themselves on this site to search through and evaluate the clips themselves might even be better. They could use this as a resource for adding video clips to presentations. It would force them to analyze several clips and the information presented in them to determine which ones are the best and most reliable.