1. Using the FlipCam and Uploading
to YouTube
Lori Ward
Assistant Professor, ESL
Northern Virginia Community College-
Alexandria

2. Checklist
• Before Recording
– Reserve the FlipCam & the tripod
– Understanding how to operate the FlipCam
– Acquire an additional memory card (perhaps)
• During Recording
– Understand how to operate the FlipCam
• Toggle to Video
• Record/Stop
• After Recording
– Return the FlipCam/Use memory card to download at home
– NOVA Gmail
– Access YouTube account & making your *** private
– Downloading the videos to YouTube
– Let students know how to view the videos

3. Orientation – Front of FlipCam
Record button
On/Off button
Play buttonButton to toggle between
camera and video functions

4. Orientation – Back of FlipCam
Lens

5. Orientation – Side of FlipCam

6. Inserting and Ejecting Memory Card

7. What to Know Before Recording

8. Location of Controls

9. Selecting a Memory Card

10. Toggling Between Video and Photo
Modes

11. Reserving a FlipCam
– Contact Aimen or Art Lin to reserve a FlipCam in
advance (a week?) of when you’ll need it.
• Alexandria campus, Bisdorf, room 337
• Email: al_is&d@nvcc.edu
• Phone: 703.933.8372

12. Step 1 after Recording: Downloading
to YouTube
• Log in to MyNOVA and then click on your
Gmail acct

13. Step 2 after Recording: Downloading
to YouTube
a) After you log in to your
NOVA Gmail, then click
on MORE
b) Then click on YouTube

14. Step 3 after Recording: Downloading
to YouTube
b) Sign in with your MyNOVA username and password
– the same that you use to log in to Blackboard
c) Note – If you have a personal Gmail account, you
will need to click on SWITCH ACCOUNTS after
signing in.
a) After you select
YouTube, then you may be
prompted to sign in.

15. Before Recording: Zooming and
Recording

16. After Recording: Playing Back Videos

17. After Recording: Downloading to Your
Computer

18. Preparing to Use the FlipCam

19. Preparing to Download Videos to
YouTube