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!

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