How to use YouTube
Technology help
Using YouTube for teaching and learning
Video is a very engaging way to communicate with your students.
Teachers can create videos to:
- introduce courses and topics
- explain topics
- conduct demonstrations
- tour learning environments
- give feedback.
Students can create individual or group presentations for learning or assessment tasks.
Those videos can be uploaded and stored on YouTube (or other free hosting services such as Vimeo or TeacherTube).
Your YouTube account provides you with your own YouTube Channel which can be customised with your own images. Playlists can be created to group videos together.
Considerations
- Who will be responsible for managing and maintaining your YouTube channel?
- Do you own, or have permission to share, the material you will be uploading? (See An Introduction to Social Media - Copyright Considerations)
- Have you got authority to publish material identifying students? (See An Introduction to Social Media -
Social Media Reputation, Privacy and Security - Should the uploaded videos be made public or private?
Resources
Procedures for setting up a YouTube Channel @OTEN (.pdf, 349 KB)
Procedures for setting up a YouTube Channel @OTEN includes a list of Educational YouTube Channels
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
http://www.ted.com Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.