Nov 26, 2007

Well its another late one. Busy uploading content to the Schools Tube site, more of the Disgo windscreen mounted clips, and a self help guide on installing a bulb into a car coming soon, I know boring, but it's how I'm spending my days at the moment aiming to polish the look and feel of the site!

I updated the www.schoolstube.com site on Sunday with some Lost Treasures clips.Visit the site. Lost Treasures is an archiology programme that was produced by Planet-X-Television for Granada TV, mainly in the North West of England, although it does sometimes air on the History channel features Mark Olly.

Anyway more to follow soon, here are some of the new clips:

Journey to West Kirby through Caldy


Lost Treasures

Nov 21, 2007

So I was driving today and I thought that I'd put the Disgo Video player that we are giving away free with the 100th paid for sign up to the Schools Tube website, to use, here is the footage.

Not too bad considering I am using a £10 universal carphone mount from Halfords on the windscreen.



http://schoolstube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=44&title=November_Journey&ref=admin

Keywords: November journey motorway car roundabout road england cheshire night dusk winter disgo video player cars mouting windscreen engine

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So I went to the startupslive Liverpool business event on the 20th November. I was inspired by what I saw and learnt from the people there. Romy Fraser, founder of Neal’s Yard Remedies, was good to listen to during the event and to speak with afer the event. There where a lot of similarities between myself and her. With our teaching/educational posts in the past. Dr Moneeb Awan was also there from eSay Solutions, a business that provides IT, consulting, marketing and health solutions to businesses very motivational and made me feel like I was doing the right thing by starting up Schools Tube. The sponsors of the evening Microsoft, Vodafone and Natwest gave away some worthy prizes to those that left their "how did we perform tonigh" forms. Schools Tube was not lucky this time, but there will always be another :) Microsofts former Wirral "old boy" Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise was on hand informing us about the new ways to use the internet to reach your customers, start blogs and advertise more virally. It was refreshing to see that most of what was being said, was what I have been doing! After the event there was a chance to meet and mingle which I did do! Meeting PR guru Suki Pardesi. Emploment Agents, Microsoft employees and learning from them all that Schools Tube is a fantastic idea, one that I am very passionate about and one that hopefully should work in the marketpalce!
On that note I did learn from experienced entrepreneiurs that what we need next, along with being published in 60,000 AVP educational catalogues, is to be launched into schools and colleges, by direct selling agents, either through partnering with a stategic sales partner, or through direct sales lead by the team. Schools Tube is now in its soft launch phase, so "FREE" trial accounts are available to those that would like to help.

Nov 19, 2007

Developments

The first clip ever uploaded onto the Schools Tube portal.



The Schools Tube portal has been developed three like minded soles, brought together due to a passion that is shared for technology, innovation and educational media.

Nov 18, 2007

Welcome to the Schools Tube blog

Hello and welcome to the Schools Tube (schoolstube) (ScHoOls tUbE) blog, this will highlight the development of the Schools Tube concept, idea, and progression of the site as it grows.

Schools Tube is an innovative way for educators to share their video and audio resources online, much in the way that YouTube works, but for schools, colleges and educational establishments.

Based in the UK, we are starting out on the road of development for the site, idea and business.

Originally conceived back in 2005 while working as an e-learning developer at North West of England University, the idea of allowing an educational upload and sharing service, was born in competition to a then fresh faced YouTube.

YouTube, grew and grew and grew and the idea was put on hold.

The BBC then decided to launch its iPlayer, and again a hold was placed on the idea.

But after much debate, talk of the benfits and reasons to make a go of it, plus a well thumbed copy of Sir Richard's "Screw it lets do it" the idea was progressed to a development stage.

Two versions later, hair pulling and loss of sleep has now produced the http://www.schoolstube.com site.

Which is still in a "Soft launch" as I am aware of issues which need looking into.

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