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Children video community
SchoolTube
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Type of site
| Education / Online Media
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Available in
| English
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Created by
| User-generated and professional content
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URL
| http://www.schooltube.com
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SchoolTube
is a free
K-12
video community based in
St. Louis, Missouri
. The company was founded in 2007 by Carl Arizpe and his son, Andrew.
Access in schools
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SchoolTube has traction with a broad base of the American
learning community
. All student-generated
content
is
teacher
moderated. As of 2013, there are registered SchoolTube users in over 50,000 K-12 schools in the United States who are uploading, on average, 1,000 videos a day.
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Most schools have blocked commercial video platforms from the classroom due to inappropriate content. SchoolTube has been granted this access due to a safe moderation process that ensures all
user-generated content
is appropriate for the K-12 environment.
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SchoolTube is endorsed by many of the top national education associations.
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Some top endorsers include the
American Association of School Librarians
and the
National Science Teachers Association
.
Moderation process
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SchoolTube's uses a moderation process which it claims makes it safe for usage within K-12 classrooms. When a student decides to upload a video, a teacher or administrator from that student's school must approve the video before it will be made live on the site. This allows schools to create strong video-sharing communities. Schools also have the option to limit the video viewing to its own school. This moderation process has led students to create higher-quality work.
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