Tech Trek: TeacherTube for Science

by: Robert A. Lucking, Mervyn J. Wighting, and Edwin P. Christmann

Following in the footsteps of YouTube, TeacherTube is a website where teachers can access a trove of videos that can be used in the classroom to improve instruction. The inclusion of YouTube as a venue in the presidential debates of 2008 has brought a level of legitimacy and recognition to this kind of electronic meeting place, and TeacherTube is similarly being acknowledged as a rich web resource of particular interest to science teachers. This article describes how to you can utilize TeacherTube in your science classroom, and explains how you can contribute to the collection with a video of your own.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 4/1/2009Stock # ss09_032_08_62Volume 032Issue 08

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