Activity #5 - Creating a MV YouTube Channel

Following the instructions for this one, I had a little difficulty. Working from my home computer, my husband already had some things set up and a YouTube channel created for other purposes - so, it was using that as the default setting and I had a hard time switching the username, etc. But, I think I got it! (Not quite sure how...but I'm thinking if I login as myself again or on other computers, it should be my own channel.)

This is a video we took via IPhone a few weeks ago of my toddler thinking he was strong by "pushing" the golf cart around. "Mighty Maddox" was quite proud of himself. When my husband actually took the video and wanted to share it with out-of-state family, he found it too long to quickly share via email and so he did the YouTube channel thing, told me about it, but I tuned it out....now, here I am creating my own. Guess I can do it in the future?!

I see a lot of applications of this in my classroom. We like to take videos of students doing activities - cooking, personal tasks, "job interviews" - and this would be a great way to have them get to watch themselves. In the past, we just took video via Ipad and had to cram around the small screen to watch it again. This will allow larger screen playback by projecting it onto the Ipad. I could also see myself using this to video certain students working/learning and sharing the link to their parents. Because students would be involved, I'd need to be sure to get video permissions and make sure everything was very private for only me to share or only the parent of the specific student to see. How easy is that? Is it possible? (I'll need to play around more.) I can also see myself using this as a sort of YouTube video library for myself. Many times I know what I want to show/share with the class but have to search for it which takes up time. I could keep a database of common videos on my channel to have quick access to. I'm going to work on adding a few more videos (probably ones that are already done) and see how it plays without advertisements and without all the things on the side.

I get nervous using this tool in class sometimes because there always seems to be some questionable content on the related videos shown on the right side!!!! (Students notice!)