 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. So, our agenda for today, this is my thinking. We're going to work, we're going to try this and work through it. I'm going to show you about how to make a custom thumbnail. A thumbnail is that little card at the very beginning of your video. That's what people will see when they get to your channel. It's not part of your video per se, it's just the cover. It's like the cover of the book. We're going to talk about subtitles. I know I've talked about it for the last two sessions and I've never had a chance to do it, so I put it at the top this time so that we can actually go through and practice how to make subtitles and also discuss the difference between subtitles and closed captioning. We'll talk about your channels, how to incorporate other people's channels into your channel, and then toward the end, we might have time. I'm not sure to get to sections and playlists, and if we do, then this is definitely where I'm going to have Jennifer or Marjorie help me out to explain this because I was having a little bit of difficulty on my particular YouTube channel, and we think we kind of talked it out that there's a reason for that. And so, when we get to the end of the session, we'll talk about sections and playlists if there's time. Okay. All right, so, you know me, love my polls. It's the same poll we've done for the last three sessions. So, if Melinda can put the poll up, it really is very simple. It's, do you have a YouTube channel? So, I still want to, after three sessions, I want to get a feel for the room, see who still has, you know, who still does not have a channel, and that's okay if you don't. If you don't have a channel, you're going to be kind of just sitting and watching for the most part because it's going to be too difficult for you to try to create an account while we're doing all these other things. So, and that's okay, just go ahead and watch and absorb. And then for everybody else who has built a channel and maybe has kind of played with it over the past week, which I'm hoping that you have, then following along today may not be so painful. So, let's go ahead and give maybe a couple seconds or none. And let's take a look at the results. Let's see what we've got. Results, Melinda. Here we go. Oh, it's half and half. 51% yes and 49% no. So, at least we don't have any more what's that. So, that's pretty nice. So, again, it's pretty interesting. I like to take this poll because I like to see, I like to feel the room and see where we're at. So, half of you that are here today that took the poll, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you don't even have a channel. So, a lot of it is, you're just going to kind of be watching and taking notes about thinking about creating a channel and then going back and go to session one and two and look at the handouts to, you know, if you're interested in actually creating them. Some of you may just be here just to see maybe if you're interested or not. So, you know, if you have a channel, what kinds of videos have you been uploading to your channel? So, that means maybe your, you know, channel of videos that you've personally made or videos that you've gotten from other people. Let's see how you guys, what are you guys are writing for that? Personal videos, good. Videos that you've made. So, some of you guys, maybe you've been to my screencastify and maybe you've been using screencastify to create videos and then you can upload it that would be a very easy process. Some of you are doing it from other people. So, you've, you've go to other people's channels and you say, hey, that's a really good video. I like it. I'm going to put it on my channel. And it could be a combination of both. Educational videos from other people. Good. Tutorials that you've made. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah, privacy, privacy is a big thing. Privacy issues, you know, is a big thing. You know, you're getting videos from other people or you're creating your own about who has access to them. So there is a question out there. Jennifer is asking what software people are, what, what software are you using to create your videos? So I've told the story before when I first started and I was just trying to connect. I was using my phone. I literally just took my phone and instead of making a selfie picture, I was using selfie videos and then I, I created my channel very quickly and then I was just uploading them as quick as I could. Now I use screencastify primarily unless I'm out and about. If I'm out, you know, doing something. And I think, oh, this might be a good, you know, video for my students just as a teachable moment that I'll whip out my phone again. A lot of you guys are using a phone. Jacqueline uses screencastify. Yeah. So I think it really just depends on the purpose and, and what not, you know, as far as what kind of videos you're making. Screencast. Perfect. Same, same idea as screencastify. I think it's Melinda who's writing, there's, you know, all the different tools are screencastify, awesome screen recorder, tech Smith, Camtasia, Carol says Movavi, video suite and Photoshop. Yeah. See, those are just like way beyond me. I literally before we had COVID, I was not interested in making videos. I did tutorials on my computer with the smart, because we had smart boards. So I'd use smart tech. I had the smart software, but I was never using like videos that I was in. And so, um, uh, yeah, so making videos was not a priority for me at all. Now that we're remote, it's just such a useful tool that my students really appreciate and, and can use pretty student friendly. All right. And we have one more. So let's take a, I just want to find out what channels have you added to your channel? If you have, or what channels would you be interested in adding? Um, maybe what kinds or, you know, we can feed off of each other. Maybe some people have some ideas of some good channels for us to share, um, with the adult dead world. Jennifer's is Mark Kulak. I say Jennifer's, the US citizen pod, um, is pronunciations ventures. Yeah, these are great. I mean, this could be your resource right now. Um, everybody with, I almost called you students so much. So weird. Um, oh, Tan. Yay. Well, Kevin, good job. You win the prize. Ding, ding, ding. Um, yeah, there's so many, there are so many channels out there. I was going to give you the exact number. I looked it up and, and I forgot, but I mean, there are so many channels out there. Um, that you can use. So please, you know, go ahead and start making some notes and from the chat. You know, so getting some ideas of, of what kind of channels you would like. So as I've been processing with this whole, um, these webinars, I've been, you know, I created that one YouTube channel just for these sessions, but I was starting to work with a channel that was geared toward teachers, but I actually wanted to do a channel that's geared toward my students. And so I've been kind, kind of conflicted about, um, the kinds of channels and things that I want to add to my, to my channel. All right. So for those of you that maybe have missed the first two sessions, or, you know, just as a quick reminder, um, these are some of the things that you might want to think about while you're creating your channel. If you haven't done it yet, if you haven't created a channel yet, or you have created a channel, but you haven't done some of these things, take note, um, you know, because these are, these are the things that are going to make your YouTube channel pop. So the welcome video, these are, this is the very first thing that people will see when you, when they open up your channel. So a video will pop up automatically for anybody who's not subscribed. Um, and these are how you do it. Go to your channel, customize channel for new visitors, upload a short video about your channel. So these are kind of the step by steps for that. Um, and updated video, these are, this is what pops up when it doesn't pop up automatically, like the welcome, but this is for people who, who subscribe to your channel. Now, when they go back to your channel, they'll get a different video. They won't get that welcome anymore. It'll still, the welcome will still be there, but it won't automatically turn up anymore. And so this is something that you might want to think about, um, that you update regularly, maybe weekly or, you know, twice a month or something to, to kind of tease the, your audience, what's going to be available or what's coming up, or maybe what just, you know, what you just put on there. So what's new. So these are two different things, ones for new visitors and then ones for subscribers. So the custom thumbnail, we talked about this before when we were talking about how, uh, YouTube channel looks and you know, I was very honest with you. When I first started doing it, it was literally, I was throwing all the videos up there. I had no care in the world about what they looked like. When students looked at my channel, it was just get to the video, go. And, um, now that I've had time and you know, now that I've been working on these sessions, um, I'm thinking, I'm looking at other people's channels thinking, man, those ones look really good. So, um, you know, having that, that kind of cover card or, um, something that looks uniformed or I, you know, if you go to like, um, cooking channels, like especially people who do a lot of recipes and stuff, you'll always see these really beautiful pictures of the food. And it just, it really makes it look special and it, and it does, it makes it look professional. And so these are the things that you might want to think about when you're creating your channel and you're uploading your videos, you know, it depends on what your purpose is, but, but at the same time, if it doesn't really take a lot of effort at the same time, putting your videos up, add a little thumbnail to the beginning of your, so then it looks good. And then, you know, people will appreciate it and you'll, you know, you'll take more pride into it. So these are some of the things of why you would want to make a custom thumbnail. Uh, keep in mind, it must be under two megabytes. So it promotes your video. It promotes your channel. It directs people to a verified site. So sometimes like it'll say, you know, if you like this, then you might like these too. And then, you know, you can direct them to someplace else. And then some people use thumbnails also to donate to charities. So a lot of times, you know, they, you know, it depends on what the purpose of the channel is, but they can ask their viewers to donate it, but it's only based in the US. But for me, I mean, the last couple of them don't really apply for me because that's not the purpose of my channel. So let's go ahead and take a look at, I'm going to stop, I'm going to get out of my presentation. And let's go ahead and take a look at some thumbnails. Okay. So let me see if I wrote this down. Okay. So it's a little bit smaller because I went out of presentation mode, but to create your thumbnail, you can do a few things. You can take selfies of yourself. You can take screenshots of video clips. Maybe you'll have your video click at video, your video. And YouTube gives you like three selections and sometimes they're not very good ones. And so you're like, oh, I don't like any of those. And so you can create your own. So you can go through your video and take a screenshot of your video, of a, of a place, a frame of your video that you really like. And then you can use that. You can use graphics. And then you can also use a logo. So for example, like maybe your school, you know, your school logo or something. But again, I've talked about this last time to be very, very careful when you're using anything affiliated with your school that your, your district, your district needs to know about it, at least in my case. And I'm sure it's probably the true for most districts is that you need to be careful because, especially if you're affiliated with a K through 12, anything associated with your district needs to be approved. So, you know, I, I don't even know if I have the name of my school on there. I just have my room number sent, you know, so it doesn't really say anything about my school, but sometimes I mentioned my school. So I mean, yeah, I wouldn't put on my logo. And like I made the example last week too, even if because I'm doing this for OTAN, I would never use OTAN's logo or anything on my YouTube channel without their permission. So just be careful with that. You know, just have a conversation with your director or, you know, send an email out to the IT department, things like that. Like what is the, what are the, what's the policy on using the school logos on your YouTube channel because our district has their own YouTube channel. So it's not like I'm trying to represent my district. So the first ones I'm going to tell you is that, okay, I know I'm getting very hot in my face right now because I'm a little bit embarrassed because I, I made some, I made some homemade cards just to practice. And literally this is at five o'clock in the morning last week and on a couple of different days. And I just wanted to see how the process was, but I would definitely, I'm going to show you what they look like. And believe me, I'm embarrassed as, as all, as all, but I just want to give you an idea of what you can do or what you should do if you want to make these kinds of cards. And I would definitely be mindful of a few things. Don't wear a shirt that has any kind of logo or anything on it because it just, it's a distraction. So maybe we're a, either like a floral print or, or just a solid color. Make sure your lighting is pretty nice. And then, you know, if you want to, if this is going to be the face of your videos, you know, maybe take a shower and do your hair. I don't know. These were not things that I had done. So that's why I kind of give you these little tips. So let me show you what I did. And, um, okay. So I'm going to present this. Okay. Can we see, can you see where's as Elise's video of the day? Yes. Okay. Okay. So I went on to slides to Google slides and I made a bunch of slides. And so this one I actually made just recently because I thought, oh my gosh, all the ones with my photo in it are just ridiculous. So I thought maybe I should have something that's kind of generic. That has nothing with no picture or anything on it. So I'm going to go ahead and show you some of my videos and each topic. It could be a different topic. So for example, we were in a venture's unit nine. I think. And, um, you know, we did, we did some videos on housework. So, you know, this could be the topic that I could just change this every time. So per, um, all about me or shopping or, you know, whatever the topic is for those videos, then I could make this as the generic cover. So I'm going to go ahead and show you some of my videos. Again, I'm telling you five o'clock in the morning, lighting's terrible. I've got a treadmill in the background. Of course I would never use this for my videos for the real life. Um, but just an idea of what you can do. So I took some video, I took some, yeah, I took a screencast. I use screencast if I made a video. And what I did was I literally sat in front of my camera and I posed. I did these little vogue poses for a few seconds. And then I finished them up like just whatever I can think of, like this, the hammy or the better. And then I went back and I took screenshots of little frames that I liked. Well, quote unquote liked. And then on Google slides, I made the, you know, the good mornings or whatever. So again, this is not, this is just an idea. This is not an example of what you should do. It's probably an example of what you should not do. So again, so then, so this is me, you know, you're just, and it's literally so cammy and so, so hammy and just, you feel ridiculous doing it. But if it was right, I mean, these could come out to be really, really good. So if you're in front of a plane, um, wall or something, you know, when you make these little shout outs, um, you know, make them colorful and bright and make them big. Um, you always want to use big font sizes because some of you today that know, if you're using your phone, which most of our students are, you know, everything is, is so small. So to make it bigger helps them. So it doesn't have to be very, you know, a lot very wordy or anything, but just, you know, colorful and big and bold, um, would be better. So again, these are like just some ideas. Just get your wheels spinning a little bit of some face cards that you can make. Oh, no. On, uh, you know, how to introduce your videos. Okay. And, you know, so crazy. Okay. So after that, I'm embarrassed. All right. So, um, that's, that's what you want to do when you're creating your thumbnails. Like those are the things that you want to be thinking of. And again, it doesn't even have to be that, uh, eccentric or anything. It could be just a screenshot of just the beginning of your, of your video. Um, all right. So when you, sorry, I'm going to go back to this. Okay. So when you are in your, um, channel and you're uploading a video, when you get to the part, let's see if I can do this. I'm hoping that it's going to work. I'm going to select a video. Okay. Okay. So when you're creating, so I uploaded a video. I just found one that was on my desktop. And I added it here and it's thinking it's processing. Okay. You can tell that it hasn't processed yet because you don't have, you won't see anything here and you won't see anything here. When it's processed, then you'll still see the video, at least part of it. And then you'll, at least part of it, you'll see the video. And then you'll see the manuals and then right here, it'll tell you, it's telling you how it's processing. So you can, you know, title your video, make a description of it. This is a video of my boyfriend making bread. He was making some baggots. And okay. So now it's starting to process. So unfortunately it's taking a long time. So they will give you three options. And they just kind of pick and choose like three frames from your video and say, Hey, you know, you didn't verify the account. I didn't verify it. I didn't verify it for a long time. So you're going to get a mail. Now, when you're creating your channel, if you don't have this option, it's because you haven't verified your account. So remember last week when we went back through and we verified our accounts. If you don't verify it, you can still upload videos and stuff I did for a long time. I, I, for months, I didn't verify. And I, I never had this. And I thought maybe it was because I didn't have enough subscribers or I didn't have my channel up long enough. Oh, I already have this video uploaded, so it's saying I can't do it again. But so again, you can see the three thumbnails that they choose for me, and I could choose any one of those. If not, you can upload your own thumbnail here, and that's where you would do it. You click on there, and then you would upload the picture that you would like on your, the face of your video. Okay. Sorry about that. All right. So let's talk about subtitles. So the difference between subtitles and closed captioning, do you guys know the difference or do you want to put it in the chat, maybe some of you? No idea. I love it. Good. Me too. I didn't really have an idea either when I first started doing this. So closed captioning, what that is is for people who have auditory challenges, okay? And so what it does is it not only takes all the words that are said, but also sounds. So car honking or music playing or, you know, things like that, it does all of it. So that someone who is deaf can read what's happening as the video is going on. Subtitles are mainly used for people who can hear but need to read the language. So for ESL students, it's perfect. They can hear, they're fine auditorily, but they still read the subtitles because their English language level or whatever language level is may not be up to par. And so that's kind of the difference. So when you upload a video into YouTube, it automatically does closed captioning. It's by law. They must do closed captioning. What happens, though, is that there are no capitals, there's no periods, there's no grammar. It's not separated. It just literally, it just goes on and on and on and on. Subtitles are something that you can provide so that it plays when your video plays, but it has the comma, I mean, it has the capitals, it has the periods, it has, you know, spelling and it's exactly, the words are exactly as said in closed captioning. They try to do as best they can, but even for like our videos, they didn't quite get it right. So it's a good idea just to have the subtitles in there anyways. So when you do subtitles, okay, I have been struggling with this since the very beginning because I didn't even know that that subtitles were available when I first started throwing videos up on. I was probably, I probably had 10 videos that before I even realized that I could do subtitles. And then I thought, oh my gosh, this is amazing and it's so much better for my students. Now here's the catch 22 though, is that sometimes I didn't want my students to read. I just wanted them to practice the listening part of it. And so I couldn't control them not getting the subtitles or not. So that was kind of, I was, I was a little bit, it was unfortunate at that time. So so let's go ahead and take a look at how to go ahead and do Alisa Jennifer had a comment. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Can you hear me first of all? Yes, now I can. Okay. Yeah. So one of the ways that I, I have done that is that with, I especially try to control the closed captioning because a lot of times I'm when I interview people, the letter or that the translation or the closed captioning of what I say is, is fairly accurate that the closed captioning of the other speaker is not, not okay. So what I did is that I base Jennifer, we're losing your audio. I think you're talking about that I delete us. Hello. We're kind of like, yeah, we're losing your audio. It's like in and out every third word. Okay. So talk slower. Seriously. Okay. Seriously. So what, so what I do is I correct the closed captioning. I save it as American English. And then I delete the original, the original automatic closed caption. So the, you can do this also for speaking exercise. If you want to do it that way. The only thing is, is that sometimes the students, when they log in, they don't, they're not used to flipping back between the subtitles and the closed captions. So that's something that you, that people have to take into consideration. So Jennifer, not to put you on the spot or anything, but do you can, can you share your screen and show your, an example of one of your videos? Sure. Do you want to do it now or do you want to do it later? Well, I think let me give you a few, a couple minutes to get set up and then we can, we can talk about, I can still keep talking about subtitles or, or is that to rush for you? No, I can, I, let's see if, can you give me the, give me control of the screen? Yeah, just a second. Do you have the, do you have the share? You see this, wait a minute. Okay. So, do you see me now or now? No. Okay, let's see. It says that I cannot do the, let's see, share screen now. Let me try it again. How about now? Yes. Okay, great. So let me go to my YouTube, YouTube studio and I'm going to go to one that I had not closed, I had not done the translation yet yet. This one is my most recent video, what's happening with USCIS openings week four. I want to basically go in and take a look at the closed captions. So here's all the different videos that I have. I'm interested in this, sorry, no, I'm not interested in analytics. I'm interested in this one specifically. I want to edit it. So now I'm going to go to subtitles. And when I go to subtitles, this is the one that has automatically been published. Okay, so that's automatic. Now what I want to do is I basically want to edit that are corrected. Okay, so I'm going to add a language. I'm going to add, I think American English, I hope. Let's see. Yeah, English, the United States, add a language. And here I can basically go in and add the subtitles. And when I add the subtitles, I'm going to, I can create new subtitles or closed captions, okay? So here I'm going to try to go in and do that, create new subtitles. And here I could basically start typing along with the video itself. Oh, this was United Kingdom, so I'm going to delete that draft. I'm going to go back, delete the draft. I want to delete the draft. So here we are with the automatic ones. So here it is with the automatic, the closed captions. If I start making, if I start making additions to this, I'm going to record. So what I'm going to say is I'm going to take this out. I'm going to say, welcome back, Dr. Hernandez. Dr. Hernandez. And then I would put a period, and then we're going to say we're going to. And what I can do is basically I start adjusting the timing of these different things. So I can move them around. I can make them shorter. I can make it longer, adjust them that way. So welcome back, Dr. Hernandez. Let's see if that works. Okay, so I need to make that actually a little bit longer. Now, if I want to basically say, okay, so as you can see, I made that grammatically correct. What I would basically do is go up to publish edits. And when it publishes edits, now the students have an example to choose how to watch this. They could launch things with the automatic closed captions, or they can watch a grammatically correct English version. Okay, so and they would basically be making this choice in their closed captions. And unfortunately, I have to get out of this screen to basically show you the choice. But let's see what happens now. So I'm able to watch it now in English. A lot of our students however have things set up automatically. So if the automatic translation or closed captioning is too bad, I simply go in and delete that. But again, then sometimes students use lose the ability to automatically have that popped up and they say, Hey, what happened to my closed captions? So you have to be really careful on that when you make that choice. I can do a much further demonstration about that later if you wish. Sounds great. Yeah, thank you so much. I think that was a, it gave everybody kind of a better idea of how it works on the back end because I know that we've watched videos and, you know, or TV or something and if you hit the CC button or the closed captioning button, then, you know, we understand how it works from a viewer's perspective. But then now for us as creators, you know, how does that actually get put in? So that was great. Thank you so much, Jennifer. Okay. How do I give the screen back? Oh, I'm going to stop share. Okay, great. Before you both pass the baton back and forth, there's a, there's a couple of questions in the Q&A. Okay. Would you like me to read these or yeah, go ahead. Okay. I've noticed that there have been times when I'm presenting and I want to play a video that there's no sound just like the video we couldn't hear here. So we'll get to that, Olivia. Hang on. Hang on. It's the next question. What level of ESL is this lesson geared toward? Do you have to review the closed caption for every video? When they do close caption, they simply basically try to show in English what they think the speaker is saying. Now, the video that I just showed you is for my citizenship students, which are multi-language, multiple English levels, and the reason why I basically retain the original closed captions is because both of us spoke very clearly, okay? You don't have all the periods and everything like that, but it was clear enough for the basic viewer to figure out what's going on. When I do things on a single topic by myself, because I have a tendency to stutter, excuse me, stammer, I actually go in and really clean up some of that, clean up some of that grammar. So I'm basically still gearing it towards an accurate representation of what is said, but instead of basically getting distracted by all of my ums and ohs and does and multiple repetitions that I make, I'm basically trying to get a straightforward version of what's said. Do you have to consider the language level of the students? Absolutely. And some of the videos that I've also done is I've done in the subtitles, I've done the English version of what I'm saying, and I've also done the Spanish version of what is saying being said, so people can see that at the same time. So there's a lot of possibilities with subtitles, and maybe that's something that I can take up a little bit later. Yeah, that would be fantastic. Or even, you know, in the next session, that could be like a main part of it. Yeah. That would be great. Can I say, yeah, can I say one more thing? Sure. A really great way to do your first, the thumbnails for YouTube is if you use Canva, they have a special format for YouTube thumbnails. Oh, great. That's one of the super easy ways that I've been able to really upgrade my game with thumbnails, except I really like your ideas. I was just saying, what about mine, my five o'clock in the morning pictures? I mean, come on. That's awesome. I've never seen you from a clock. What's it like? So now I know. Meg, can you put that in the chat, what you were, the tool that you were talking about and then? Yeah. Yes. And that's another quick demo that I can do next time or even this time I could show you that. That would be awesome. Yeah. We'll definitely try to make time for that then. Melinda, were there any other questions? Take it away. Okay. Let me go ahead and share my screen again. Let me make sure I'm on the right screen. Are we all good? We can see my presentation. Yes. Melinda. Yes. Sorry. Okay. So this is basically, you know, my version of what Jennifer had just shown. And I'm so glad that she did because I was kind of looking over my steps. There was a couple of things that I do a little bit differently, but again, I'm coming from a place where I was literally just thrown into this. Doing trial and error and kind of survival YouTube. And so this is the way I know how to do it, but I am absolutely certain that there are plenty of other ways to do it. And it's probably more efficient or whatnot, but this is just how I know how to do it. So I will show you what I do when I do subtitles for my students. So this is that one that has all the steps in it at one time. And then now we'll go through a step, step by step. All right. So you're going to upload your video. Okay. And again, if you don't remember how to do that, always look for the little camera with the plus. If you're on your channel, if you're on YouTube.com, you know, you can do it either way from that. Once you upload your video, now your video is uploaded, then you're going to go through and, you know, insert the title, do your description, things like that. Scroll down and then you'll see more options. Okay. So after your video is uploaded, it's now, okay, so it's processing. Remember that gray box and there's no thumbnails. So it's processing. So you can put in your title, you can put in your description, you can go down, scroll down, and you'll see more options. Once you hit more options, then this is where you can choose that language that Jennifer was talking about. And this isn't like, I have found that it's in different places. So even if you're like, not sure where I'm at right now, sometimes when you're just playing around, you're like, oh, here's that, you know, language part and it shows up. So you're going to go ahead and make sure that this says what the language of the video is. So for us, if we were creating videos, unless you're doing them in Spanish, then you would change them. You know, it depends on what the language of the video is. But for me, mine's going to be English, United States. And then you can also do the recording date and whatnot. So these are, this is just some of the information that you need, but this is kind of important because I found this out through trial and error that if you don't have that, then things, bad things happen. I don't know. Some things can't happen. Not bad things happen. So if you have a transcript already done, so maybe this is already a scripted video, but maybe, you know, you were creating something with your colleagues and you both had scripts already. If you already have the scripts ready, you can upload them. You don't have to retype them again. And so you can upload your subtitles from your computer. And you can do it with timing or without timing. So probably with timing because then it kind of goes with the, they have a pretty good, they have a pretty good system where that they time it pretty well. I'm pretty impressed with it. There's only a few times where I have to make some adjustments and you'll see, I have a video that I did about that. So that this is if you already have your, if you already have yours, your transcript ready. If you don't, don't worry. No problem. You're going to continue. And you're going to go into studio. So make sure that you're in studio, whether that, if you're in your channel and then it says custom channel or studio, pick the studio one, make sure that you have studio up at the top. Look for the word videos on the left hand side and then choose the video that you want to make your subtitles for. So this is exactly what Jennifer had just showed us. So she was in studio. She, she chose that very first one because she knew that she hadn't done subtitles for it yet. When you hover over, I had to take a picture with my phone because I couldn't get a screenshot when I hovered. So when you hover over the title, you'll see this little floating toolbar and the first one is called details. Okay. If you're just, if you're off of it, you won't see that that it'll look like this. As soon as I hovered over the title, this toolbar comes up and I want to go to the one that says details. Okay. So again, here's that language. It's been selected for me. This is the language of my video. And I want to add subtitles. So click on add subtitles. And then my video shows up that I chose. And you have your choices again. So again, if you, if you make a opportunity to upload, you can still, you know, you can still have your chance to upload. If you already have the transcript already on your computer, you can transcribe an auto sync, which is what I always do. I don't even do this one, but this is the one. So this was great to hear Jennifer say that she just, this is the one she does, but I usually pick transcribe and auto sync because I used to do transcriptions when I worked in Korea, I used to have to do transcriptions for movies. And I, and this was VHS days. So I literally had to stop rewind, listen, type, stop rewind, listen, stop. And it was terrible. YouTube makes it so nice because they can play the video. You can play the video. And as soon as you start typing, the video stops, it pauses. And then when you stop typing, it continues. And so it's really kind of convenient that you don't have to keep doing it manually yourself, like play, rewind, play, rewind. And so that's what I like about it. That's what I, that's what kind of sold me about doing subtitles for all my videos. So being mindful, make sure that you have this right here. And then you can just double check. Pause video while typing because that's the magic. So while you're typing, that video will pause. It won't keep continuing. So you don't have to rewind unless you kind of miss, you know, miss some words or something. But, but yeah, it's been really, really nice. So you're going to type here and then just make sure that's checked. And I think it's default. So just double check, but I think, you know, you won't have to check it yourself. So here's an example of, you know, I've been typing this, um, with, I would scree-cassified me making the trans, uh, the transcript. So I think this will work. Hold on. This door is so wet. Can you hear the sound? Yes. Okay. Great. I just want to make sure. It makes it difficult to handle. That's why there's so much. This was my example of after it's done. Sorry. I think I mixed up the two, I had two videos. So this is after I've been typing. So after it's typed, then this is what Jennifer was showing where you can go back and you can make editorial changes to it with timing and things like that. So I'm going to do a shake it a couple of times and stretch it. It needs to difficult to handle. That's why there's so much flour. And so I'm listening to the video and watching what part he's, you know, he's in in the video and then I'm making my adjustments with the subtitles. Now for whatever reason, of course, this is going to happen. This door is so wet. I'm going to show you a quick video. Of course, the video that I want to show you as an example was probably the hardest one that I've had to post. Like so far, every video that I've ever had to do, I didn't have to do a lot of this right here. It was literally like, it was kind of magic. As soon as I typed it in, they timed it really well. And if there were any mistakes, it was probably just my mistake of, you know, typo or things like that. But for this particular one, maybe because Larry's talking and I don't know what or whatever, I had to kind of make a little adjustments here. It's not too bad. It is a little tedious or whatnot, but it is worth it at the end. But for real, when I was doing my own videos and transcribing my own videos, I rarely had to do any kind of timing issues. I don't know why. So let me exit out of this. And so let me see if I have another example here. And I don't know if that's the one. We talked about the timings, the timings of the videos. So again, this is, I'm typing as the video is playing. And as I'm typing, it stops the video and then I continue. And so then that it keeps going until the end of the video. Okay. So again, I had a typo on there and so I, I can fix it here or I can also fix it here. So you have multiple places that you can fix things. Okay. So this, I think I mixed up the two slides. Sorry. So this is where I am actually doing the transcribing. It's so wet. Is it blurry? Cause it's kind of blurry on my end. It's okay. Elisa, can I say something really quick? Sure. It depends on, I would think also it depends on the language level of our students that some people, um, you know, trans, uh, basically transcribe or provide closed captions for every single thing that the person says in the video. And some people only put the keywords. I noticed Jennifer ESL does that. Oh, interesting. You can make a, you have a choice. I think legally we're obligated to provide closed captions. For everything. Right. So Jennifer, I think it's also really helpful here to put keywords and you may want to do that with further editing. Interesting. Yeah. I never would have thought that. I mean, I, I, the only things that I omit are my ums, like if I'm doing my own videos, I, I take out, I don't, I leave out ums or O or, or, you know, those little pauses in between sentences and like just the things that we do, what I do naturally, I take those out because my students don't really need to know that, but, or read it. They hear it, but they don't need to read it. So that's what I will do. So I do kind of take executive, you know, privilege in, in some of the things that I, I um, type up. So that was an example of how, so as I was typing, you notice that the video stopped and then I stopped typing and then the video continued again. Okay. So we know, you know me, I love my stretch times. Lisa, did you bring any bread samples? It's all in my belly. I know it's unfortunate. I, I, it really is unfortunate to live with someone who loves to bake and cook. And guess this COVID-19 thing is really killing me. All right. So let's keep moving. So we talked about this last, I had to, I had to get it in my head what YouTube was about, because it really can be a little bit confusing. And, and before when I was just a viewer, I, you know, none of this even made sense. I didn't even, like, it wasn't even a consideration. I didn't even know that there were different sections of, of a channel and stuff. I was just clicking on all the videos that I wanted to watch. And now as a creator, I look at all these different channels and I think, Oh my gosh, look at how amazing these are. And, and how do they organize it? And we, last week when I was showing Jennifer's, I mean, it's a perfect example, OTAN, perfect example. You know, you really have to kind of break it down. And, and as far as the lingo goes, you know, for me, I keep thinking about a library, you know, these are my sections of the library. These are the, you know, the chapter books are the playlists and then the videos are the pages, you know, things like that. Like I'm trying to think how is it organized in different ways. And so for you as the creator of your channel, you need to kind of think about how do you want to organize your channel? And I've watched plenty of, of YouTube videos on this particular topic. And a lot of people said that, that they did it kind of how I did it, or, you know, they didn't, they didn't do the research first. They really just, just opened up a channel and just started putting videos on there and then had to go back later on, realizing that it was just not as organized or as, you know, as it could be. And so if that's your position right now where you're just trying to, you're just trying to get videos up to your students and stuff, great. Just get the channel up, put your videos on there, you know, share them with your students and that's okay. If you're looking to, you know, profit from this or, you know, really get your channel going so that it's more global than, you know, you're probably going to want to rethink how you organize it. So channels, adding channels and featuring channels. When you go to your YouTube, your YouTube channel, so this is my YouTube channel, you have two sections, one's channels and then one's featured channels. And I was thinking about it this morning to me, it kind of seemed like the bookstore now where you have books in the bookstore, but then you have, you know, when you first walk into a bookstore, they have that section that's featured and maybe it's like staff selections or, you know, brand new or, you know, best seller, things like that. That's kind of what featured channels is are to me. Like these are the channels that you want to showcase on your channel for others. So whether that be for your students. So for OTAN, OTAN's website, they're, you know, so for OTAN, OTAN's website, their featured channels are CASAS, CalPro, NROC, Lynx. You know, it's all the channels that they feel that are super important for adult educators to have right there up front. So for your students, you know, maybe that's going to be a little bit different for, you know, for citizenship, you know, maybe you're going to have Jennifer's featured channel or, you know, I probably wouldn't put OTAN for my students, you know, because it's more of a teacher resource than a student resource. So again, kind of think about what, what do you want your students to see and have easy access to right up front. And that's what you're going to put on your featured channels. So adding channels, when you are on somebody else's YouTube channel, so I'm on OTAN's YouTube channel, you can subscribe to their channel by hitting the subscribe. Once you hit subscribe, it'll show you that you are subscribed and then it'll show you a little bell next to it. If you click on the bell, that will give you note. This is the notification bell. Now anytime OTAN puts up any kind of new video, you will get notified from that. If you don't click on the bell, then you're just subscribed to the channel and then you would check back every once in a while for new content. So it really depends. I think that was one of the questions or one of the concerns, maybe in the first session was that they didn't want to keep getting notified every time there was something new. So just keep mindful about the bell. There's a bell there. If you don't click on that or select it, then you won't get notified. But if you do want to know what's the, you know, the newest, the latest and greatest, then go ahead and hit the notification bell and then you'll, you'll be notified whenever something new comes up on that channel. Subscribing. So I subscribed to the OTAN channel and it came up into my subscriptions. Now as you can see, it's still not on my featured channels. So only Jennifer's is on my featured channels because that was the example that I had used from last session or the first session. Oops. I don't know why those are. So now when you go to, now you want to add a feature channel, go to customized channel on your, on your channel, customized channel. And you're going to add channels. Okay. So you're going to go to customized channel and then you're going to add a channel. You'll copy and paste the link of that particular channel. You'll add it. And then there it is. Okay. So when you subscribe, it goes to here. So I've subscribed to Casas, but it's still not my featured, but I subscribed to OTAN and then I made them a featured channel. And then you hit done. So you have two different sections on, on where you decide. So I think Casas is really important, but, uh, you know, I, I'm not going to put it in my featured channels, you know, for whatever reason, just a weird example, but for my students, I wouldn't have put it in there anyways. Just in case for whatever reason, if you're like, I'm playing it around with these and I'm thinking, Oh, I don't want these for my students. You can unsubscribe to channels. So when you click on the subscribed button, click on that. It will ask you to, it says, do you really want to unsubscribe? And then you could either say, yes, I do want to unsubscribe, or you can just cancel and say, no, I changed my mind. All right. So let's go through and let's see if I can, let's see if we can do this. Now I was playing with my channel earlier today. And so some of the things that I think that I'm having problems with, like why I'm having difficulty sharing certain things with you is because if you can see all the videos that I've done so far have either been private or unlisted or drafts. And I think that blocks me from like showing you potentially what it's supposed to look like at the end. And that's my fault. So sometimes when I'm trying to show you something and it's not working well, I believe it's because my videos are, and which is an easy fix. You can always just go here and change this. If I put it to public. That means anybody, you know, that's on the internet. You can potentially see this video if they want. Lisa, how did you get there? This is the studio. This is the studio. So if you're in your channel, let me get back to my channel. So if you're on your channel, you still have your two choices channel and YouTube studio. And you click on YouTube studio. Oh, was that, was that where I was? Yeah. And videos. Okay. So again, remember we talked about the avatars and how they do different things in different places. I mean, literally every single time I go through here, I have to kind of like catch myself because I was like, is this the avatar that I want? Is this the avatar that I want? Just to get to different places. And then I did find out on this side, I was always going here and then going to my channel. You know, because that just seemed easiest to me. But, and then also, you know, it just, I, I have to process it differently. And again, I know that there are probably way easier ways to get to certain places, but I just do what I do. I do what I do to survive. And so I look here. Is it, you know, does this take me where I want to go? Or I look over here. I look over. So this one actually will take me to the studio as well. So if you're a little bit lost, you go to here, you can click on the studio. And you're back here at the studio. And then I clicked on video, this little sidebar over here on the left. You know, pretty helpful stuff. Studio remember is like, this is where you make the magic happen. So a lot of the things that you want to make magic happen is on the left hand side. This is where the subtitles are, your analytics, you know, your data. This is where your playlists are, things like that. So if I click on videos. These, so this is where I tried to upload that video twice. So it's giving me a warning like, don't do it when you see it. You know, you already have it on there. So here's my video. I'm going to change it to public. And then I'm going to publish. And now it's public. Anybody can see it. Everyone can see this video. It's like, okay. So I, what I've heard from other people is that when you're still editing and doing the things that you want to do with it, keep it private. And then once it's all good, you have your subtitles in, you know, you've got your title, you, you know, you have your settings all done, then change it to public. But for the purposes of me showing you things, it was, I didn't want to make it public because I didn't want people to see it, but then I couldn't show you. So it was a cat 22 on my part. Lisa, now come back to your channel and show where it appears on your channel. Before we couldn't see it on your channel, but now it's there under uploads. Yeah. So it just, you know, magically like all of a sudden, Oh, it's ready for the world. Here you are. And so I think. So if you did customize channel now, that's where you would start creating your sections. Exactly. And this was all like, this sounds so natural for Jennifer. Like it comes so easily for your, this was hours of pain, stakingly hours of me trying to figure out where it is that I need to go. So yes, she is correct. You got to customize your channel. And then down here at the bottom is where you add your sections. Okay. So again, sections are so upload is one of them. And then you could add different separate sections, excuse me, sections. And, um, okay. So I did find out, I did find out that if you, if you're here, you go to customize channel and then you look and you're like, Oh, Lisa, I don't have this. You're, you know, and you're stuck. I found out that if you go to the little gear right here, gear. You need to make sure that this right here is toggled on. Okay. So I believe it's defaulted on, but I'm not too sure because I kind of was playing around with a lot of the stuff. And so I might have done it myself. But if you notice and then save, make sure you save at the bottom. Okay. So if you scrolled, you're at, you're here. You custom, uh, customize your channel come down here at the very bottom. It should say add a section. If it does not, if it does not say add a section, you're going to go to your gear and make sure that this one right here, customize the layout is toggled on. All right, folks. Thank you everybody. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you. Thank Jennifer so much. Yes, our OTAN subject matter experts. Woo.