youtube for learning and content curation
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YouTube for Learning and Content Curation
Bob Bertsch and Sonja Fuchs Web Technology Specialists Agriculture Communication
YouTube for Learning, Really? People turn to video for not only entertainment but information and
learning, helping make YouTube the second largest search engine.
Some Stats
• More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month • Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on
YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth, and 50% more than last year
• 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute • 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US source: http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html
YouTube for Learning, Really? More Stats
• YouTube is localized in 56 countries and across 61 languages • According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34
than any cable network • Millions of subscriptions happen each day, and the number of
people subscribing has more than doubled since last yearsource: http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html
What is Content Curation?
• Content curation is the process of collecting, organizing and displaying information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest.
• Services or people that implement content curation are called curators.
• Curation services can be used by businesses as well as end users.
Step 1: Get a Gmail Account
YouTube is a Google product and you need to get a Gmail account to get the most out of YouTube so that you can create a channel or playlist and comment on videosYou can’t use your ndsu.edu email address for your Google account. It is reserved for NDSU Google Apps for Education. YouTube is not included.
Step 2: Keep in the Know: Subscribe
• You can subscribe to YouTube Channels to keep informed of the latest uploads and news
• You will be notified via Gmail when new videos are uploaded
Step 3: Where do I start? Organizations and brands such as NDSU Extension/RECs
have YouTube channels: http://www.youtube.com/user/NDSUExtension http://www.youtube.com/user/NDSUCREC
http://www.youtube.com/user/NDSUAgComm
Anatomy of a YouTube Channel
Step 4: Start Curating!
• Search more than 200 videos on the NDSU Extension YouTube Channel
• Create or link to playlists
• Share videos or playlists by using a link, or you can embed videos in your Ag CMS site
• Embed videos instructions • Embed playlist instructions
Thank you!
• Please contact Sonja Fuchs or Bob Bertsch with questions or help with Learning with YouTube
• Please complete the survey on this breakout session: http://bit.ly/webservfc13
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