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I see that the old Teacher's TV videos are now available at a new site hosted by the team behind Teacher's TV! They say:

"Teachers Media is the new professional development service for everyone working in UK education, brought to you by the team behind Teachers TV.


This site contains a free library of over 3500 high-quality videos to help you and your team develop your professional skills, and support teaching and learning in your school and classroom.

Whether you're looking for great lesson ideas, how to take teaching from good to outstanding, or help with behaviour management, we have something for you."


http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/

It did occur to me that there just might be something positive in the slash and burn approach of the government. Many of the best intiatives which have helped teachers have come from teachers themselves or private organisations. In the MFL field I think of languagesonline.org.uk, mflresources, TES Connect, for example. On the other hand the Teachers' Resource Exchange is now defunct mainly because it was not hugely used or valued. That's why it got the chop. I recall in the early days of shared resources on the internet the government was offering a National Grid label to web designers whose sites met official criteria. This soon disappeared because it served no purpose.

Now, for every poor government-inspired initiative you could probably find a good one, but I have a feeling that that some of the best online tools for teachers are not the fruit of a ministry. This is not the case for Teachers' TV, but at least it is now in alternative hands and maybe those people will find a way to make it viable through advertising, selective sales, sponsorship or overseas deals (the videos are only free to UK residents) and even expand it with new material. Good luck to them.

Not sure where it leaves....

http://www.schoolsworld.tv/ who are also claiming to be about to offer the same videos as Teachers Media.

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