This week I explored YouTube a little further. I use YouTube all the time, but don’t actually explore deep into it. I have recorded art lessons, but have never uploaded anything to YouTube until taking my master’s classes. I thought it would be difficult, but it was rather surprisingly simple. I should upload my art lessons onto YouTube for quicker access. I use YouTube everyday to watch church sermons, news, DIY, how to videos, and art videos. I use art videos in many of my art lessons so the videos have been easy to link to my Google Slide.
For my assignment this week, I had to create a YouTube channel and add some playlists. These playlists included videos on using Twitter and Twitter tools, teaching and learning with technology, videos that speak to the use of Web 2.0 tools for learning, videos related to what we teach, and a playlist of our choice. When I did my search, I had to make sure the videos were at least within the last 5 years or sooner because programs change all the time. Also, when I searched videos for the subject I teach (elementary Art) when I would go to save to my playlist, it said “this action is turned off for content made for kids” yet you can share the link (don’t really understand why that is). That was very frustrating because I will now need to copy and paste the link to a Google slide, but I would rather just be able to go to YouTube, look at my playlist, click on it and click play. This seems to have been around for about 6 months to a year.
I do love the playlists because I don’t have to try and remember the name of the video or search for it, I can just get my playlist and find it quickly. Also, I found that it was easy to share a YouTube video onto Twitter. I am sure there are some other perks I missed, but I will continue searching and looking for new things to do with YouTube. Hmmm I probably could find a video about that on YouTube!!! :)
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