Integrating YouTube Videos How to Use YouTube Videos in iCollege
Why YouTube? YouTube is a large collection of user-shared videos. There are videos of news broadcasts, historical events, and much more. In fact at YouTube EDU there are YouTube channels created by colleges and universities; Georgia Perimeter College has its own channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/GAPerimeterCollege. Why would you want to use YouTube in your class session? Here are some ideas: Promote Discussion: Find a video depicting a controversial position or thought provoking series of events to provide a springboard for discussion. Review a Procedure: There are many videos showing how to perform academic procedures such as balancing equations, creating truth tables, or solving calculus problems. Watch a Historic Event: Video of many historic events from the “I have a dream” speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. to the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster are available on YouTube. First-hand Experience: You may want to have someone who has experienced a rare event describe what it is like. For example, in a psychology course you may want to view an interview of someone with schizophrenia or in physical education you may want students to view an interview with an endurance athlete describing the physical demands of a sport. Alternative Information Delivery: There are some quirky and clever videos that are meant to teach. For example, check out the video that tells what the Large Hadron Collider does at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM or the Martin Luther‟s 95 theses rap video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5AJr0wls0
Table of Contents Objective 1: YouTube Overview ........................................................................................................ 2 YouTube.com Homepage ............................................................................................................... 2 Video Pages................................................................................................................................... 3 User Channels ............................................................................................................................... 4 Objective 2: Searching YouTube ....................................................................................................... 5 Search and Refining Searches ........................................................................................................ 5 Objective 3: Linking to Videos in a Presentation ................................................................................. 7 Objective 4: Downloading Videos ...................................................................................................... 9 Objective 5: Embedding Videos in PowerPoint ......................................Error! Bookmark not defined. Embedding a Video from YouTube in Office 2007 ...............................Error! Bookmark not defined. Embedding a Downloaded Video .......................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. Objective 6: Clipping Videos ........................................................................................................... 12
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Objective 1: YouTube Overview YouTube.com Homepage To go to YouTube, enter the address http://www.youtube.com/ in the address bar of your browser. When you arrive at the site, you will see a screen something like this:
From this main interface you can view recommended videos based on your recent search history, see what is trending and most popular, and search for videos of particular use to you. In addition, if you have an account you can upload your own videos. Videos at YouTube are organized by categories and sometimes Sub Categories. Within each category there are particular user-created channels containing video from a user or group of users. For example, in the Education Category, there is a YouTube EDU subcategory. Within that subcategory are channels from colleges and universities including the Georgia Perimeter College Channel.
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Video Pages Each video has its own page within YouTube. There are a number of things you can do on a video page in addition to viewing the video. Video Title Channel Information Subscription Button
Video with playback, fullscreen, and other options in the toolbar
Suggested Videos Sharing and Embed Options
Viewer comments and video responses
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User Channels Each user has a channel where the user can upload videos. Each channel has a page that provides access to all of the videos of the user. Below is a description of some of the regions and features on a channel page.
YouTube General Search
Subscribe to the Channel to receive email updates whenever there is new content Channel Search
Recent Video Channel Videos
Channel information such as: User Information Channel comments Subscribers
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Objective 2: Searching YouTube You can begin a search from any page within YouTube (i.e. any channel or video page in addition to the homepage).
Search and Refining Searches To perform a simple search, type a query into the search window and click search. For example, suppose that you were interested in finding inspirational speeches, you could simply type „Inspirational Speeches‟ in the search window and click Search. Your search results might look something like this:
To view one of the videos that are returned for your query, simply click either the thumbnail of the video or the blue title. Search terms won‟t necessarily guide you right to the video you are looking for. You may have to refine and sort your search so that you can find precisely what you need.
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Refining Search Results Once you have a list of videos that is in the ballpark of what you would like, you can then sort videos by relevance, upload date, view count, and rating. This might be useful if you are wanting something current (sort by date) or more moving or popular (sort by view count or rating).
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1. Modify Search Terms: You can add or remove words and click the Search button again. 2. Filter: By default the Filter options are hidden, but if you click on the link to Filter, a new menu will open up like the one above. There will be options to refine your search by upload date, format, channel, playlist, video features, and more. For example, if you wanted an inspirational video that was closed captioned, you could select the CC (closed caption) option so that YouTube is only looking for videos that have that feature. 3. Sort By: The four most common ways to search YouTube videos is by Relevance, Upload Date, View count, and Rating. These options are available for quick reference from this dropdown menu. To utilize one of YouTube‟s suggestions, click on the related search that is the best match. Some videos will have additional sorting features in addition the three listed above:
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4. Explore related searches – If there are a number of videos that meet the search criteria, YouTube will suggest additional searches that are related. To change your search criteria to one of the suggested options, simply click on the search criteria you prefer. 5. Explore additional search terms – Under Explore are a number of additional search terms that can be added to your search. If you find one you would like to add, hover over the term and click on the blue plus that appears. This will add that term to your search. Integrating YouTube Video
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Objective 3: Linking to Videos in iCollege The easiest way to use videos within a iCollege is to link to the video. There are two ways to do this. Simple Web Link A simple Web Link puts a link to a video in your home page or organizer page in iCollege 1. Find the video you would like to link to in YouTube. In this example, the video is the Rare Isotope Rap. 2. Click the Share button below the video and a new set of options will open. 3. Copy the link to the video. 4. Open iCollege and navigate to the home page or organizer page where you would like to place the video. 5. From the Add Content Link menu select Web Link. 6. Then click Create Web Link
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7. In the Create Web Link page you can a. Enter a Title for the web link (Required). This lets students know what they will see when the click on the link. b. Provide a Description for the link (Optional). The description provides additional information about what they will see or directions from you about what they should be looking for as they view the video. c. Paste the URL in the Web Address (URL) field (Required). The „http://‟ portion of the URL. If you have copied the full link, you will need to delete the http text from the web address field before you paste in the link. Otherwise the „http://‟ portion of the URL will be duplicated. d. Direct the link to Open in a new browser window (Optional). If you do not check this box, the YouTube window will open within the iCollege frame. If you check this box, the page will open in a new window or tab in the browser. e. Associate the link with a Category or Goal in your course. (Optional)
8. Once you have configured the link, click Save. 9. The link will be visible in iCollege. How it is displayed will be determined by your iCollege page display settings.
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Textual Links to YouTube Videos A simple Web Link puts a link to a video in your home page or organizer, but a Textual Link will place a clickable link on text just about anywhere in iCollege. This option is available for any text where the HTML editor options are available such as discussion boards, exam questions, etc. For this example, we will place several links in a discussion board. 1. Find the video you would like to link to in YouTube. In this example, the video is the Rare Isotope Rap. 2. Click the Share button below the video and a new set of options will 2 open. 3. Copy the link to the video. 4. Open iCollege and navigate to the home page or organizer page where you would like to create a discussion. If the discussion is already created, open it up for editing and skip to step 6. 5. From the Add Content Link menu select Discussions. 6. Then click Create Discussion Topic 7. Select the type of topic and begin to configure it as you would like.
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8. In the description, type the discussion topic and the text that you would like to have before and/or after the text you will want to be linked to a video. In the example below, the links to the speeches will be placed on the text describing each one.
9. Then place your cursor where you want the link to be placed and click the Insert Link button. 10. In the Insert Link window, paste the URL for the video in the URL field. Then type the words that will displayed as a link. (In this example I am writing ‘I have a dream speech’ since that is the text I want students to click on to view the video. 11. The text for the link will appear blue, but won‟t be clickable, in the description. 12. Then click OK. 13. Complete the setup of the discussion. Once it is complete, the discussion will display any links you have created.
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Objective 4: Embedding Videos in iCollege In some situations, you may want to embed a video within iCollege so that students can view it within a particular context of iCollege. For example, you may want to embed a video for students to watch in an exam question or discussion board. This can make the experience of commenting on a video in a discussion simpler, for example, easier to navigate for students since they don‟t have to go to another browser window to view the video. 1. Find the video on YouTube that you would like to embed in iCollege. 2. Click the Embed button below the video. 3. Then copy the html text that is then displayed in the box below. (Optional, you can adjust the settings for the embedded video by checking or unchecking boxes below the HTML code or selecting a custom size for the displayed video. The code will change based on your selections.) 4. Open iCollege and navigate to the location where you would like to embed the video. In this example, we will embed the video in a discussion board description. 5. (Optional) Enter all of the text that you would like to have displayed and then type the word ‘HERE’ in all caps where you would like to embed the video. This allows you to find the location when you change to HTML mode. 6. Click the Disable HTML Creator button to toggle to HTML view instead of the „Creator‟ view. 7. Highlight the word „HERE,‟ or place your cursor where you would like to embed the video, and paste the embed code you copied from YouTube. 8. Save the discussion. 9. The video will be visible in the discussion board.
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Objective 6: Clipping Videos Sometimes you find a very long video and you would like to show just a piece of it. For that, you can use a website called Tube Chop. The videos you chop using TubeChop can be linked to or embedded in iCollege so that just a particular segment is displayed. 1. Find the video you would like to link to in YouTube. 2. Copy the link from the address bar. 3. Then enter the URL http://www.tubechop.com/ in the address bar. 4. Paste the YouTube video‟s URL in the space provided and click Search. 5. A new page will open with a thumbnail view of the video. Click Chop It if it is the correct video.
6. The next page will give you the opportunity to chop the video using one of two methods. Option 1: Enter the Start and End time and click Update Option 2: Drag the begin indicator and end indicator in the timeline to the proper location. 7. Click Chop It once you have selected the segment. 8. The next page will give you both the URL and embed code for the chopped version of the video. You can use these to integrate them with iCollege.
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