Session Description: Create your own Youtube Channel and start harnessing the power of YouTube for learning with a YouTube Star Teacher. Spark conversations and inspire students with the short lessons from top-tier universities and global thought leaders hosted at Youtube/EDU. Search for age appropriate teacher generated resources aligned to the curriculum at YouTube/Teachers. Learn to aggregate content to your home page and curating your own collections of playlists. Share videos and playlists by embedding them in on your blog or class website.
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What have you learned from YouTube?
YouTube’s Education Efforts
Find the Good Stuff: Searching YouTube
Use Filters to find Videos, Playlists or Channels
Advanced Search Explained here
Have the Good Stuff Find YOU: Subscribe to Content
Beginner Task- Create a YouTube Account
Go to Youtube, and then sign in using your Google Account. Follow the prompts to get your channel up and running.
Intermediate Task- Start Subscribing!
Subscribe to excellent content (either my suggestions, or by searching for topics and filtering, or browse through these).
***Bonus Points - If you know of great K12 stuff that is out there, submit it here and spread the word. I'll publish the links here later.
Currate your own Playlists and choose the order they appear.
If you really, really, want to know all the ins and outs of playlists, here is an extensive post.Check out some of the playlists featured at youtube.com/education
On the right, you can see a playlist embedded on this page. Once playing, you can click "Playlist" in the upper left of the video window to see a list of all the videos in the playlist.
Here is a link to a playlist where you can view the list in the order it is set to play along with any annotations that the playlist creator included.
Activity #2 - Make a Playlist
Surely you’ve got a list of links to videos that you like to use in your classes. Take a few minutes to dig out the list and start putting them together in a playlist.
***Bonus Points
If you’ve created an AWESOME playlist (or already know of one that exists) that every teacher in your subject area would benefit from, then head on over to YouTube/Teachers and submit it for review to be posted on the site.
Embedd without related videos (or just Add &rel=0 to the end of the URL before embedding it)