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Why? The kids use it to – Watch fun videos – Watch sports videos – Watch music videos – Listen to music Teacher should use to – Show fun videos – Show/share educational videos – Give their students good things to watch!

Part 1 Creating your account Disclaimer. “We are not experts, but play them at conferences…” We are explorers and readers. We click on things and read the options! Your best bet for help is…. YouTube. At the bottom of the page is a help section!

Create your account Go to YouTube.com click on “Create Account” Your “Username” will become your URL. Be careful what you chose. Is your channel a classroom, school, or personal…? Be generic, since you can add playlists!

Account Settings Click on your user name button, and chose “Account”. We’ll get to the others later… It is all pretty easy. Click all the options and check out what you can do. We will go through most of it with you.

Overview The basics. Plus it is where you upload a logo. Go ahead and try it for now. Pick any picture and change it later.

Profile Setup Click the drop downs next to the sections and don’t forget to save your changes! Don’t use too much information about YOU. It’s pretty straightforward. Click all the options and check out what you can do… play later!

Options For sure check them! We want to know if anyone uses the site! You can always uncheck them if you get too many messages.

Privacy Your page will have ads. You may as well decide which ones! We are not sure if this is per computer or per YouTube page! After you click here, click on the + signs to see sub-categories. Chose your categories! As an educator we don’t want any unsolicited videos. We don’t have (or want) any friends anyway! Make your own decision. Yes, you can change it later!

Friends clarification “Friends”. Remember this is a social networking site. If you add a friend you will add a link to their page and you have NO Control over what is said on their page. If there is inappropriate content there and you put a link to it….? Your decision…

Activity Sharing At this point NO is our suggestion. I don’t want anyone to know how often I am on the site! Facebook /Twitter? Why? Your decision. (“No” for us.) For now don’t do it.

Yahoo Congratulations You have created a YouTube Channel! Great! – Now what?

What do you want your viewers to see? Part 2

The “Title” shows up by your Logo. Page settings Click (not mouseover!) your username, then click “My Channel”. When the account comes up chose settings. Tags are what search engines use to find your site. Each is a separate word.

Themes and Colors A no brainer! Pick your colors and save changes. For you more advanced hackers chose “show advanced options” and put in your own details. Don’t be afraid to play with the colors. You can always change it back.

Modules When you are logged in you can see them all. When others visit your page what do you want them to see? Be careful of subscribers, comments and friends. (Be ready to uncheck if needed!) Make sure that you always click “Save Changes” when you are done.

Videos and Playlists A little harder but still a no brainer! Pick some choices. These are the things your viewers will see. Don’t be afraid to play with the settings. You can always change them back. You can create playlists and NOT show them to the public by NOT checking the boxes above. You CANNOT create Playlists here. Leave Autoplay unchecked.

Creating Playlists Click on your user name. The drop down will open up. Click on My Videos. On the left hand side you will see Playlist. Click on New Create a couple of playlists, for the concepts you teach. Examples: Elementary: Science, Math, English Secondary: Core concepts (ex. Human Anatomy, Zoology, Biology)

Part 3 Building your site

Adding Videos #1 In the search bar do a search for a topic of one of your play lists. Click on a video. Find “Add to” and click the drop down. Click the playlist you want it in. My playlists will look different then yours.

Adding Edu. Videos! From the main YouTube page click on Browse. Click on the dropdown next to the word Categories. Click “Education”, then click “YouTube EDU”.

YouTubeEdu categories will open on the left. You can choose from here or search by school. Pick a category Click on a movie. Adding Edu. Videos #2 Choose your category and pick a movie that will match a playlist you already created, QUICKLY, please. (We’re not here to watch videos!). You can always remove it later. You will notice that a lot of videos may not seem “Educational”. Yes, ANYONE can add videos here. Do the same search as you just did. Compare your videos. Are they the same?

Find a Channel Search for a topic (Ex. Art Appreciation) Click on “Search Options” (It won’t show up until you search for something!) Select “Channels” or “Education”. It will limit your results to “education channels for art appreciation.

Subscriptions Subscriptions are a direct link to another channel. Subscribe to the “channels” you want content from. It is an easy way to get content links. Subscriptions will take viewers away from your channel. Click the subscribe button. It could be just about anywhere on the page depending on what template they are using! Some channels will have “sub- channels”, and you can link to them and subscribe. Ex. Discovery Channel! Make sure you subscribe to appropriate channels.

Subscriptions If you find a channel you would like to subscribe to, go ahead. You can also Unsubscribe from any channel subscriptions. Subscriptions are a great way to direct students to channels they wouldn’t usually find.

Part 4 Creating (and uploading) your own videos

Part 4 Creating your own videos Sorry but this is not a “creating a video” lesson! Be very aware that many current video software has a direct upload to “your youtube channel”. Some even directly from digital cameras and phones! Oh, its gets even better and easier if you have a web cam on your computer…

Uploading your Own Click on the yellow Upload Button Then click Upload Video and Browse for a video from your hard drive. Check out the record from Webcam button too! OMG – easy!

Uploading your Own Once it is uploaded there are still many many options. Too many to show here. We did find that many of them are quite simple to use. You DO NOT have to change any of these but be aware that you CAN!

Uploading your Own We are not going to have time to get into each of these but play around with them sometime and see how powerful and easy YouTube can be.

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