Within the past year online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily upload and share videos on the web. Among all the web 2.0 players in this area, YouTube is currently top dog serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites easily.
Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from 1970s TV commercials and 60s music videos to library dominos and a video made by library school students for National Library Week. There's also the cult classic Conan the Librarian. Of course, like any free site you’ll also find a lot stuff not worth watching too. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore and see for yourself what the site has too offer. :)
Discovery Exercise:
1. Explore YouTube and find a video worth adding as an entry in your blog.
Create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the site and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or componets of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to a classroom?
2. OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog using the copy and paste code for the for "Embeddable Player.” Note: you'll need to use Blogger's Edit HTML tab when pasting this code.
Here is one of my favorite movies...
3. No doubt you have viewed videos for personal reasons and used educationally sound ones in class from YouTube and/or TeacherTube. You probably have had to use a conversion program like Zamzar in order to see the the YouTube videos in district.
YouTube has an Education channel where you can see what other educators have uploaded videos to be shared by others. There is a U.S. Government channel as wellBut the availability of streaming video in a 2.0 world is unquestionable. It's everywhere!Now it time for you to learn how to upload videos of your own. For YouTube, you do have to register to upload (and use some of the other special features .)Here is a video from the YouTube staff on how to upload a video.
Now why don't you give it a try. Create a short video (use moviemaker or imovie with some of your own personal pictures or video) then upload it to Youtube. Once uploaded use the embed link and copy and paste using the HTML editor to your Blog.
Important things to remember:
1. No more than 10 minutes.
2. No more than 1 GB
3. Must be in acceptable movie format including (but not limited to)
.AVI (windows)
.MOV (mac)
.MP4 (ipod/psp)
.MPEG
.FLV (adobe flash)
.SWF (shockwave flash)
Here is a nicely organized set of instructions for uploading to YouTube. YouTube even has its own blog full of ideas and help.Here are some more articles that may help you with this activity.
Getting Started: File formats
Getting Started: Editing my video
Getting Started: Videos with JPEGs
Getting Started: Video length and size
Interesting facts about YouTube
One specially nice feature of TeacherTube is the arrangement of subjects and topics into channels. For instance, if you need teaching support for math, you can click on the Math channel and see everything that has been tagged with math and other related tags. To upload to TeacherTube, you also must register and create an account.
Here is some help in using TeacherTube. Included in this information is the list of formats accepted by the site. For videos, they are similar to the ones listed above in the information about YouTube.
Here is a video on how to upload to Teachertube. And some help pages that can answer your questions.Try uploading to one of the sites. Use something you have already created (you may have to check the format) or create a piece like an Animoto to upload. Include your thoughts to these questions in your blog post:
What would be some advantages of having teaching/learning videos available on online at sites like these?What about student created work -- would there be advantages to having it uploaded?
P.S. Did you know there is also a School Tube site - Check it out too?
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