YouTube

THE WHY

Youtube is a video-hosting website that allows users to upload, view, share, edit, and comment on videos. Users can also subscribe to channels, and curate videos in playlists. 

Youtube can support creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. It supports self-directed learning and provides authenticity to the learning by providing a real world audience. It provide the opportunity to provide instruction in digital citizenship: cyber bullying, digital footprint, information literacy, creative credit and copyright.

THE WHAT

Learning Outcomes

1. Instructors use YouTube in the classroom to provide students with content.
2. Instructors use YouTube to publish content, their own and that of their students.

Classroom Application

1. Use YouTube videos to spark interest in a new unit, introduce a concept, build background knowledge, reinforce skills, provide students with tutorials, etc.
2. Publish student-created videos online to give them a real world audience.
3. Have students create: documentaries based on their research, movie trailers for book reviews, advertisements, public service announcements, how-to videos, etc.
4. Harnessing the Power of YouTube in the Classroom Links to an external site.
5. Improving Reading Skills with YouTube Closed Captions Links to an external site.
6. You too can use YouTube in the Classroom Links to an external site.
7. 30+ YouTube Channels for Teachers Links to an external site.

THE HOW

Use these resources to learn about YouTube, watching and reading just what you need to implement YouTube in your lessons.

Access 

When you are logged into your Novell account at school you will have full access to YouTube since you are a teacher. Students have limited access to only those YouTube videos that have been approved. To make a video viewable by students during the school day, a teacher can click the Approve link below the video while logged into their school Google account. 

Uploading Videos

Teachers can upload videos to YouTube. Using their school provided Google Account, students can also upload videos to YouTube after school hours, when they have full access to the YouTube channel. 

Downloading YouTube Videos 

Downloading YouTube videos, while not technically illegal, is not allowed. So they have worked very hard to shut down methods that people have found to do that. The issue is that when you download a video, they no longer have any control over advertising revenue derived from people watching that video. 

Tutorials

• YouTube Links to an external site. Help articles Links to an external site.
• Top Tips for Getting Started with YouTube Links to an external site.
• Creating Playlists Links to an external site.
• How to add closed-captioning to YouTube videos Links to an external site.
• Practical Pointers for YouTube Links to an external site.
• 4 Ways to Play Videos in Google Docs Links to an external site.
• 26 YouTube shortcuts everyone should know Links to an external site.

• Introducing YouTube Studio Links to an external site.

Using YouTube in Canvas and Google Classroom

• YouTube allows you to easily embed a video or add a video Links to an external site. to a module that will be displayed on a page in Canvas.
• How to Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube Links to an external site.

EARN THE BADGE

See the attached rubric to know how your submission will be assessed (click 3 dot Options menu at the top and choose Show Rubric). To earn the badge, you must obtain 6 of the possible 7 points.

1. 1. Design a lesson in which you apply what you have learned for use in your classroom, either by using Youtube yourself for instruction, or by having your students use it. See the Designing Tech Amplified Lesson for guidance on creating a lesson plan that uses digital tools.
   2. Click Reply below and reflect on your lesson. In your reply include:
      • Did students demonstrate understanding of the learning target? If yes, how? 
      • How did the use of YouTube amplify your lesson? Did it add value to the learning goal though engagement, enhancement or extension? Did it make you or your student more efficient and effective?
      • If you had the opportunity to teach this lesson again to this same group of students, what would you do differently? Why?
      • In your reply, you can choose to share an artifact or your lesson plan in the form of a shared link, screenshot (Links to an external site.), attached file (Links to an external site.), or embedded image (Links to an external site.). This is not required.

Once you've posted your reply, you will be able to view posts from other teachers. Feel free to like or comment on others' submissions.