Cellphone Taping a Classroom Threat

By Vaishali Honawar

This story was originally published in Education Week

Videos of teachers that students taped in secrecy are all over online sites like YouTube and MySpace. Angry teachers, enthusiastic teachers, teachers clowning around, singing, and even dancing are captured, usually with camera phones, for the whole world to see.

Some students go so far as to create elaborately edited videos, shot over several days that use popular soundtracks and sound effects to poke...