|
Engage with YouTube | Search for Video | Upload a Video | Share your YouTube Video |
Embed into Pearson LearningStudio | Best Practices
Engage Student Attention With the Addition of YouTube Videos in Presentations
Students appreciate the use of multimedia materials in faculty presentations and one of the simplest media to incorporate are videos. YouTube offers a variety of content that can be utilized to illustrate any number of points within a presentation.
Return to Top
Search for YouTube Videos
There is a lot of content on YouTube that is available for you to watch and share. If you know what you are looking for, type keywords or a video title in the search bar at the top of each page at http://www.youtube.com.
Read more about getting started with searching for YouTube videos.
Return to Top
Upload a Video to Youtube
Follow these simple steps to add YouTube videos to your presentations.
First, you have to create a YouTube account, or sign in with your existing account.
Once your account is created, upload your video. Take note of the acceptable file formats that YouTube allows. Also, YouTube will not accept files that are longer than 15 minutes.
On the Upload Page (screenshot below),you will need to enter in a Title, Description, Tags, and Category.
Select the Privacy Settings you prefer: Public, Unlisted or Private.
Public: Anyone can search and view your video.
Unlisted: Only people who know the link to the video can view it. The video will not appear in any of YouTube's public spaces, such as search results, your channel, or the Browse page, but the link can be shared with anyone. Read more.
Private: only specific YouTube users can view your video. Read more.
Save your changes. When the video is finished uploading, at the top of the screen you will see a link to your new video. It will look something like the image below:
Click on the URL, to preview your video as others would see it.
Return to Top
Share your YouTube Video
You have two options for sharing your video. You can share the URL to send viewers to youtube directly, or you can embed the player into your webpage or Pearson LearningStudio course shell.
Sharing your Video via URL
Please follow the instuctions for Sharing your Video.
Embed the Video
Please follow the instructions for Embedding your Video. An example embed page is below. If you plan on embedding your video into your own website or Pearson LearningStudio shell, you will be copying the box that contains the <iframe.....> code.
Note: We suggest that you UNcheck the box for "Show suggested videos when the video finishes." This prevents content you didn't select from appearing, which may be inapprorpirate, or distract your students and take them on a tangent away from your course materials.
Return to Top
Embed your Video into Pearson LearningStudio
1. Select the embed code, as described above ( click on the code on youtube) then Copy the code (Ctrl+C on
a PC or Apple+C on a Mac)
2. Go to your Pearson LearningStudio shell and select a text/multimedia content item (If you do not have one, create a new one. Refresh your memory by watcing the How to Add a Content Item video). Once your content item is created/selected, then select AUTHOR. Note: Announcements and threaded discussions can also be a great place to embed a YouTube video.
3. Select the HTML tab in the bottom left corner of the visual editor. This will change to HTML code view. At this point, place your cursor in the box,
wherever you would like to place the video, and then paste (Ctrl+V or right click>Paste on a PC or Command+V on a MAc) the video embed code.
4. Save your changes, and then select the COURSE tab to view your video.
Return to Top
Best Practice
We recommend you place the video inside a 1X1 table (1 cell = 1 column & 1 row).
Create a 1X1 table, using the table wizard. Make sure your table has a border color. Feel free to put text all around this box or nothing at all. SAVE your changes!
Go to the YouTube video and find the "embed" code. (Hint: It's in a gray box to the right of the video.)
Copy that embed code.
Come back to your course page, click into the HTML and find the table tag. It should look like this:
<TD></TD>
Return to Top
|
