Video and Photo Sharing Series: YouTube
After creating their own channel, users can begin to upload content. After making a video, users can upload it by following these steps:
- Click Upload in the upper-right corner of any YouTube page.
- Click Browse and select the video file you would like to upload from your computer. Also on this page, users can click Record from webcam to create a quick video to upload or click Upload from mobile to upload a video previously recorded on a mobile device.
- Then, Click Upload Video .
- Enter information about the video, such as a title and description.
- Click Save changes. The video is now available on YouTube.
No advanced video recording equipment or software is necessary to create content for YouTube. A basic webcam is all that’s needed. High Definition video uploads are supported, but creating HD content will require more advanced hardware and software.
Users have control over their account settings and features. All accounts offer:
- Embedding: After uploading a video, users can share it on their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, blog as well.
- Privacy: When a video is uploaded, the user can elect to make the video private or public. If private, the user chooses who can see the video. Entire accounts can also be made private. Note: A teacher, for example, can create a channel for class lectures and then allow only the students in the class to view them, rather than the whole world.
- Subscriptions: Users can subscribe to channels so that they are informed right away once new content is posted to those channels.
- Commenting: Users can type comments about videos or record a video response. This feature can be utilized by teachers to evoke interactive participation from students.
In March of 2009, YouTube launched YouTube EDU, designed specifically for universities to post content from their school. Hundreds of universities now have a channel on YouTube. For a list of those universities, go to http://www.youtube.com/edu?action_directory=1.
In 2007, the University of California at Berkeley was first to publish complete lectures on YouTube. One of the first lectures was given at UC-Berkeley by Google cofounder Sergey Brin on search engines, technology, and business.
On the university channels you’ll find a wide range of content. There are lecture series, videos of special events, campus news, and anything else important to the university. Each university, however, is only allowed one channel. If you would like to post content to your university’s channel, you should contact the person who manages the account.
The University of Colorado at Boulder already has its own channel which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/univcoloradoboulder. It currently has videos highlighting people and places at CU as well as some information about interesting research being done.
YouTube can be used as a resource, using what is already there to supplement the classroom. It can also change the way your class is structured by allowing for recorded lectures, video-based office hours and out-of-class engagement with students.
–Written by: Matthew Campono, CU ‘11, ASSETT Staff Assistant