YouTube was made publicly available in November, 2005.

This means that in less than three years,

YouTube and similar Web 2.0 video sites have transformed

the way in which the world creates and communicates.

When using video for instruction, remember your audience:

• There are, of course, many many video sites now, for example:
  • YouTube
  • TeacherTube
  • Vimeo
  • Hulu

• Video from TV/News sites, for example: 
  • ABC News
  • CBS News
  • Fox News
  • Frontline

• How will you use video for your courses? Thinking about this will help to guide your search.
  • In class, to briefly illustrate a concept?
  • Out of class, to motivate thinking and reflection?
  • As part of an online quiz, or a discussion board?
  • ???

• Find AT LEAST ONE video to use for class at one of the following sites:
  • YouTube
  • TeacherTube

• Here are just a few examples from the 9/23 workshop participants of how video might be used in instruction:
  • "My wiki is http://brosnanwatters.pbwiki.com/.  I am going to use mine on Blackboard to demonstrate attentional blindness for my introductory psychology classes.  I am going to look for more to illustrate other concepts.  This is cool!!"
  • "In my weekly announcements for my organic [chemistry] classes this semester I have been directing students to URL's for videos demonstrating techniques for our laboratory activities. Now I will embed the videos on Blackboard."
  • For an Economics class, when discussing savings rates, show this SNL clip from Hulu:

• One of the great benefits of video sites recently is that you can quickly copy the video code, and then include it in your own wiki or in your Course Management System (CMS) -- in our case, Blackboard.
  • For instructions on how to embed your video that you have just found into your PBwiki,
    • watch this demo for embedding a YouTube video
    • watch this demo for embedding from other sites, like Hulu
    • OR download this reference sheet.
  • For instructions on how to embed your video that you have just found into Blackboard, 
    • watch this demo for embedding a YouTube video in Blackboard 
    • OR download this reference sheet. 

• Do I need or want a YouTube account? Although you certainly don't need to have an account if all you want to do is search for videos, it can be useful if you want to . . .

. . . subscribe to a particular person's videos. For example, I think that Chris Pirillo is fantastic at explaining tech topics (his background is in education!) so I subscribe to his videos: 

. . . keep all of your "favorites" in one place:

        . . . create playlists of videos -- this makes it easier to organize and find them later:

. . . leave comments about videos. You cannot comment unless you are logged in:

Watch this demo for instructions on setting up a YouTube account.

Click here to see how to (and why you'd want to) Convert an Online Video to a Storable File.  

Educause:     7 Things You Should Know About YouTube **

[click here for PDF version]

** The "7 Things" about any given topic are:

1. What is it?
2. Who's doing it?
3. How does it work?
4. Why is it significant?
5. What are the downsides?
6. Where is it going?
7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?

FINAL NOTE TO WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS: Guess what? Everything you learned about video embed codes and using them with wikis or Bb -- it works for audio, too! After attending Session#1 and learning about ChaCha, a friend heard this piece on the radio, and emailed it to me. I went to the website, found the radio piece, got the embed code, and dropped it in using the "Insert Plugin --> PBwiki Magic --> HTML" method. Check it out!