Thursday, January 31, 2008

New Bookmark and Share Upgrade!

We have added the new upgrade to our Bookmark and Share features. You will have the same features such as bookmarking to your favorite online bookmarks and personal bookmarks as before, but now you will have the ability to email the page link with 3 easy steps.

The bookmarks will be located at your personal account login page, at every page in the upper right corner before you log in and the share bookmark will be located on every video view page.

Enjoy!



Sunday, January 27, 2008

My New Top TeacherTube Student Product Video, The Office Parody.



TeacherTube Member: Mrs. F
Title:
The Tech Lab Part I (The Office Parody)
Description: This is a parody of the T.V. show, The Office. Dave Fuglestad, the Media Tech teacher of Buffalo Grove, acts alongside a group of high school seniors in this student made
and directed film. This exceptional movie earned them a trip to Hollywood to meet the cast!



NEW! TeacherTube Visitor Map (TeacherTube.com/map.php)

Many of you have emailed wanting someway and somehow to show educators in your respective area that use TeacherTube. Well, I just added a Recent Visitor Map located at http://www.teachertube.com/map.php.

Some may ask, "Will my information or location be leaked?" This is a big N-O! The only information given is the city location of the TeacherTube Member or random visitor of TeacherTube. If you select the thumbnail, it will show a bubble locating where the member or visitor is located without given a name just the city's name.

This is actually neat not only seeing TeacherTube Users in your area but around the country. Keep on "Teaching the World!"

Enjoy.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

TeacherTube Downloader 3.11 (RELEASED)

Download and save Teachertube videos to your PC, Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Mobile Phone with one-click.

You don´t need any players to play flash video just play it on the default media player classic. No extra codecs or players needed.

Save the downloaded video into various formats: .avi, .mpeg, .flv, .wmv. Simply paste the URL of a video into the program, press Add, and the file will be downloaded into the selected folder. Just run Teachertube Video Downloader and start downloading!
Teachertube Video Downloader is small, fast, useful, practical and powerful. It has a clean, simple interface.

Teachertube Video Downloader will work with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista operating systems.


Monday, January 21, 2008

Scheduled Maintenence for TeacherTube

To keep up with the rapid increase in the volume of traffic and community members, we will be undergoing maintenance 1.22.2008 10:00pm CST.

Check back to tackboard.blogspot.com for more information.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

New Video Tool Bar @ TeacherTube!

I have edited the tool bar on the New Video page. Since we are getting closer to the 10,000 mark, I figure it is probably getting time to get organized...a little anyway. Below is a shot of the new tool bar with active link provided:



The tool bar will allow you to sort through videos by the original categories such as Most Recent, Most Viewed, and so on as usual, however, now you can sort by All Time, Today and Month. Also you can sort by Channel rather than just seeing the top Most Recent or Viewed on the Channel Detail page.

The display icon to the right will allow you to display a detailed version or list version.

Let me know if you guys see any where else we can enhance TeacherTube, I'm always game to make things easier.

Enjoy!



Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Uploading Support Files to TeacherTube New Additions


Just a reminder if you have not been using the Support File Feature or an avid user of the Support File Feature, I have added several more Support File formats to add to your video. I love this feature due to the fact of thinking how cool would of this been when we were growing up.

Anyways, here is the new list below of supported files:

.DOC: Windows Word

.PPT: Window PowerPoint

.PDF: Adobe PDF

.RTF: Rich Text Files

.TXT: Text File

.CSV: Comma Seperated Value

.XLS: Excel

.MP3: Music File

.WAV: Audio File

.KMZ: Keyhole Markup Language for Google Earth

.SWF: Flash File

.ZIP: Compressed File

.GSP: Geometer's Sketchpad Document


Remember to let me know if you guys need any help adding Support Files to your videos by clicking here.

TeacherTube on iTunes

For all you that have emailed me and requested, here are some iTunes links that are related to TeacherTube.com that you can use with your iPod that I have made. Let me know if any of you need any help. My email is adam@teachertube.com.


The Best of TeacherTube: This is a showcase of the current Month's Most Viewed Apple related video formats such as .MOV or .MP4 that have been uploaded to TeacherTube. The video list will change hourly, daily, and weekly based upon the view numbers on the related items. You can also search in iTunes "teachertube" and that will take you to our FREE Apple Store.
iTunes Store Link: Click Here | iTunes: Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here


BONUS! Here are also all the TeacherTube Channels Most Recent Apple related video formats being uploaded to TeacherTube for your iTunes and iPod.

Adora's Flying Fingers Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Career and Technology Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

College and University Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Elementary Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Fine Arts Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

High School Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Math Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Middle School Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Physical Education Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Reading Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Science Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Social Science Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Student Products Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

TeacherTube Tutorials Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

World Languages Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here

Writing Channel:
iTunes : Click Here | No iTunes (RSS Feed): Click Here



Enjoy!

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Welcome to The Tack Board

Hello TeacherTube Members and anyone who accidentally hit the wrong link. However you got here, I hope this blog I am calling The Tack Board will help many of you out in your Educational lives. English Teachers, give me a break on the grammar. I would of added spelling to that list but technology blessed us with spell check. So take it easy on me and I'll do my best.

Given the name, The Tack Board, it would represent all the thoughts and ideas that could be "tacked up" into once place. Some of you maybe like myself, if I write it down or tack it up on the wall or tack it on the fridge, I'll remember it later. I also hope that many more of you who are tech savvy may have some great ideas that could possibly be great additions to TeacherTube and the Members.

I wanted to create this blog to reach out to you due to the fact I have some cool new TeacherTube tools to release that I have created over time and really needed a place to test them out. Most importantly, letting me know if some of the creations are good ideas or a bad ideas. I'm always game for criticism.

I hope you all enjoy and I'll see you back at the TeacherTube Community.