Teachers RSS Feeds
Teachers TV RSS feeds allow you to see when new content that's relevant to you has been added to the site. By subscribing to a feed, you'll receive all the new programme or news information you need, direct to your desktop without having to constantly visit the site to check.
Before you start using feeds, you'll need a piece of software known as a news reader or the latest version of your internet browser. If you are using Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0, Opera or Safari, your browser will load RSS feeds automatically, enabling you to receive links to our content without the need for any additional software.
Alternatively, downloadable applications such as Democracy will stream video content directly into a player on your computer.
If you've not used an RSS feed before, try watching this video on the Common Craft website which explains the basics of what they are and how to use them.
Subscribe
Click on the Subscribe link located next to the RSS feed icon on either news page, or any destination page to receive live feeds of information relevant to your areas of interest.
Twitter is a quick way of communicating and staying connected with people and companies of your choosing, through the exchange of short messages.
Follow Teachers TV on Twitter to receive feeds about our latest videos as well as ideas and comment on all things education.
You can also follow Teachers TV News to be kept up to date with education news stories as they happen.
iTunes U
Teachers TV is also available on iTunes U, so you can also access our videos through iTunes on your desktop, laptop, iPod or iPhone. And thanks to the ability to download, you can watch whether you are online or not.
iTunes U is the part of iTunes that's dedicated to education - think U for university. It's free and available to everyone.
Use
Simply launch Teachers TV iTunes U and navigate through our wide ranging content to find videos that will help you in your role. Once you find a category that you are interested in, you can double-click a video title to watch it there and then, click Get film to download it, or click Get tracks to download all the videos in that category. Your video(s) will download so you can watch them when you're ready, or you can sync them to your iPod or iPhone and watch them on the go.
You will need the iTunes software, which you can download here if you don't have it already. More information on iTunes U is available on the Apple website.
TV Guide
The TV Guide lists all the programmes showing on a particular day, with a brief synopsis of each one. You can access the TV Guide through the link at the top right of each page.
Each programme title links to the relevant page, which provides detailed programme information, the video itself, as well as schedule information.
You can also view the schedule for following days and weeks, by using the right and left arrows at the top of the guide.
Download schedule
You can also PDF version of the schedule for the current week - useful if you'd like to print it off and stick it on your staffroom noticeboard.
RSS feed
You can also download an RSS feed for our weekly schedule, ensuring that you always keep up-to-date with what's on. Simply click on the RSS link where you see this logo on the TV Guide page.
Social bookmarking
You can share and save your favourite videos and news stories using social bookmarking with the following sites:
Social bookmarking is a way of storing all of your bookmarked pages on a personalised website, meaning you can access them from any computer when you're online, not just the one you were using when you saved a website to your favourites.
Through social bookmarking websites you can store, tag and share links across the internet. You can store your bookmarks in useful lists, which you can then share with your friends, or even make then accessible to the general public.In order to use one of these websites, you'll need to register with them. Registration is free. Each works in a slightly different way, but has broadly similar features.
If you've not used social bookmarking before, try watching this video on the Common Craft website, which explains the basics of how they work.
Add a page
Once you've registered with a social bookmarking site, adding new pages is very straight forward.
Click Share and then select the site that you wish to use. You will be taken to that site where you'll need to log in to save the video page as a bookmark.
To add a news story to your social bookmarks, simply click on the link to your chosen bookmarking website at the foot of the page. When you do this, a link to it will be saved within your chosen site.
You can then add tags, or categories, to the link, which will let you search through all your bookmarks, and for other people to search for and find relevant links.