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YouTube for Learning and Content Curation
1. YouTube for Learning and
Content Curation
Bob Bertsch and Sonja Fuchs
Web Technology Specialists
Agriculture Communication
2. 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
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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
3. YouTube for Learning, Really?
More Stats
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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
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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
9. 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
10. 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