Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:00 am, Posted by 7 | Social Media, Videos

YouTube Just Launched A Site Specifically For Teachers

There are thousands of inspirational and educational videos on YouTube right now. Many are perfect for your classroom. Knowing this, YouTube has created a new site that curates these videos and organizes them into an easier-to-find system that’s perfect for teachers.

YouTube Teachers is a brand new channel that displays helpful videos on teaching and learning about basically everything. If it’s a lesson plan or teaching tool, it’s probably on YouTube Teachers. Below you’ll see a few of our favorite videos that were surfaced by browsing the new YouTube Teacher site.

As you can see below, the splash page to YouTube Teachers resembles a chalkboard background on top of a notepad. Because, let’s face it, who doesn’t store their chalkboard on top of a notebook? I kid, I kid.

I have  really been enjoying the new site and have tried to put it through it’s paces. It’ll be a great go-to resource for all teachers looking for a lesson idea or thought-provoking video on YouTube without having to sift through a billion cat videos. (Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cat video as much as the next guy but now when hunting for an educational video.)

You can sign up to become a part of the new YouTube Teachers community and get regular e-mails about popular videos.

YouTube Teachers is really all about playlists. They encourage you, as a user, to build an extensive playlist of helpful videos about particular topics. Then they want you to share those playlists with others. Sounds simple enough.

Don’t know how to make a playlist or other finer points of YouTube? Mathademics put together a helpful video that is sure to help you out (video below).

This is the first of two big ways YouTube is reaching out to the education community. In a couple weeks, they’re expected to announce some larger changes that will really benefit teachers in particular. Stay tuned! Literally.

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Gordon Toudt

Very Noble this Education version .... however how do we get around the problem of filtering YouTube but not this site when the same name is used for every URL.

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Jeff Dunn

Hey Jens, I did some snooping around and couldn't find out if they were going to be having a translated version. However, you can use Google Translate to view it in real-time as your language. For example, you can do that by clicking the 'Translate Into Your Language' bar on the right side of Edudemic's pages. Good luck!

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Jens

How about other languages? Do you know if we will see international versions as well?
// Regards from Sweden!

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