Classroom alternative to YouTube for sharing SL related content

by Cathy Arreguin

Because K-12 institutions routinely block YouTube, it can be difficult to show great educational examples of Second Life, as well as those wonderful tutorials by Torley and others.

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However, I was just clued into TeacherTube. com as a purely educational alternative. In fact, Suffern Middle School (Ramapo project), CATE and English Village projects already have great posts that might really help communicate the educational potential of SL to others. Edutopia also has a featured article this month for reference.

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TeacherTube also allows for support files, such as Word docs! Check it out!:

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TeacherTube videos tagged with Second Life:

http://www.teachertube.com/search_result.php?search_id=second+life&x=0&y=0

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Edutopia article:

http://www.edutopia.org/upload-university

CoSN K12 International Symposium Streaming Video

CoSN has made the entire day of the International Symposium: Using Games and Simulation for Engaged Learning available online in streaming video:

http://www.k12schoolnetworking.org/2007/symposium/agenda.cfm

There's an agenda posted on this page, you can generally judge where in the four chapters of video various sessions occur. There's some good stuff in there.

Mark Prensky kicks it off with a keynote based on his new book, "Don't bother me Mom - I'm learning". Lord (David) Putnam gives a good presentation in the afternoon session. Both of these have individual links to their videos from the agenda.

SLED Listserv, Stan Trevena, 15MAY07