Big Idea:
YouTube is a great resource for consuming, creating, sharing and publishing media. All MS students and staff already have a YouTube account through the AISB Google system.YouTube is a great place for students to upload their own video footage for several reasons: reliability, web access, easy sharing and publishing of videos, unlimited storage of media (which can be private); the ability to share videos without having to make them public (unlisted links). YouTube also has a basic but usable video editor: http://www.youtube.com/editor Advantages of this editor: Web-based, no special software required; students can work on a video project from any web-connected computer (or several); any footage that has been uploaded to a YouTube channel is available for any video project within the YT editor. CC licensed video is directly available to insert into videos as well.
YouTube videos are easily sharable. There are three privacy settings: private, unlisted and public. Once in YouTube, videos are easily embeddable in a variety of web resources like blogs, sites, Prezis, Google Presentations, etc.
Video is a fantastic teaching tool, as I'm sure you all know. The trick is finding the best content available. Developing and growing your PLN is one of the best ways to come into contact with great content (e.g. Twitter, Diigo, blogs, YT channels, etc.) You might want to subscribe to YouTube channels that seem to produce the kind of content your students might benefit from. Below are some examples of channels I subscribe to:
PBS Off Book
VSauce
PBS Digital Studios It's OK to Be Smart
TED ed
DubSpot
YouTube EDU - Curated videos by category
Vimeo Video School: Great resources to help you learn to produce better videos.
Demos:
Uploading video to YT
Publishing settings
How to embed YouTube video
Basic overview of the YouTube editor
Discuss: Embedding video into blog or site for more private commenting away from YouTube.com comments
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