 Hi, this is Russell Stonewall from teachertrainingvideos.com. This short video is really about YouTube and about how we can use YouTube in education, but particularly focusing on your YouTube channel. Now if you have a Gmail account, then you have a YouTube channel and you can even use that YouTube channel for making money for yourself, which is one of the things that I'll look at. So what I'm really focusing on is how we can use our YouTube channels to deliver educational learning material and even make money from it. So if you have got a Gmail account, but you don't know anything about your YouTube channel and what you can do with it, this is a great set of videos for you to watch. So what I'm going to try and do is give you kind of overview of what your channel is and how you upload videos and how you can then use those videos and embed those videos. I'm going to talk a little bit about making money from your channel and how you can actually do that and then talk to you a little bit about how you can organize your channel so that if you do upload videos into it, it's all nicely organized and it looks neat. But more importantly than that as well, I'm going to shift over to thinking about how we could use our YouTube channel with our students. So yes, we can put content up onto our YouTube channel, but we could also allow our students to add up content as well. Now the other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to give you access below this video to a few playlists. So if you want to carry on learning in more detail about your YouTube channel, then I will give you some content that will allow you to carry on studying and learning about things like playlists and subscribing to channels, etc. So let's get straight into it. So where is your channel? What is your channel? If you log into your Gmail account and then you can see your little apps here, just click on the right hand side and you'll have an app that says YouTube. And that will be where your channel is. Now the first time that you go to log into your channel, you will have to simply give your channel a name and then simply link it together. So when I click here, in my case, and I click on my channel, it will bring me immediately to my YouTube channel and to all the content that's on my channel. But in your case, if it's the first time you do it, it will simply ask you, give your channel a name, then click on connect and then your channel will be connected to your Gmail account. Now, what I do in my channel is I upload lots of videos. You can see some of them here. They're laid out here on the screen, all the different videos that I upload. You can see that they all have this identical kind of thumbnail. So every time I upload a video, I upload a thumbnail at the same time so that it always looks nice when people see it before they actually play the video. I upload video content continually onto my channel and what I actually do as well is I monetize my videos. In other words, I set them to be monetized so that if people play those videos, I get a teeny amount of money from each play of the video because there's normally an advert at the beginning of the video and then normally as well, perhaps something that comes onto the screen during the video. So that's one of the great things about having your YouTube channel is that you could actually upload videos into your channel and then monetize those videos. You do, of course, have to register with YouTube, with Google, so that they can pay you. So it's a little bit more complicated than simply just clicking on the monetize button, but it doesn't take long to set up your channel and then to be receiving money. The one problem is that you do need to have a certain number of subscribers to your channel before you can begin to monetize it. So it is important and, of course, people are only going to watch content that they like. So if you are thinking of doing that, you're going to have to think about what interesting content that you can put up onto the channel and how you can get people to subscribe to your channel so that you reach that number of users that then allows you to actually monetize your YouTube channel. So I've just mentioned one obvious benefit of having a YouTube channel. Potentially it could make you money. I'm going to focus on four more. The first one is that, of course, you can share learning materials that you produce. And that's exactly what I do on teachertrainingvideos.com. I make videos showing students and teachers how to do different things, like perhaps work with Google Forms, or work with Google Docs, or work with Quizlet, or work with Edmodel, and I can upload those videos onto my YouTube channel so that they're easily accessed by my students. So that would be one obvious reason why you'd like to have your own channel because you can put your learning content up onto the channel and then your students can access it. Now, the other thing that you can do as well is that you can put your students' content. So if you, for example, got your students to record themselves doing a presentation, they can give you the video, you could upload that into the YouTube channel as well. Remember, when you upload something into a YouTube channel, it's not necessarily public. You can set something as private or even unlisted. If it's unlisted, only people with the link can find that video. They won't be able to find it on YouTube by searching. And if you set it as private, then it's only people who you have specifically stipulated can watch the video. So you have got different levels of security. So one benefit is you can upload content. Second benefit is that your students can upload content. Another very useful thing about having your YouTube channel is that it allows you to subscribe to other channels. So if I just click on my channel here and come over here to the left-hand side, you'll notice that it keeps a record of all the channels that I have subscribed to. And not only that, it even tells me how many new videos I've been uploading. You can see that I'm actually subscribed to 90 other channels. Lots of my time is spent on YouTube learning. And therefore, the way I learn is, of course, find an interest in channels, subscribe to them. And then I can always access the content by simply going to my subscriptions here on the left-hand side and finding what new videos have been uploaded. And another thing that I can do because I've got a YouTube channel is I can create playlists. Now, both of these things, both subscriptions and playlists, I will deal with at the end and give you some videos that will help you to learn how to do this. But playlists allow you to collect lots of different videos from different channels all together in one list. And these are really useful. So if I click on an example here, this is, for example, four different videos I found about Facebook marketing, I can put them in a list. So I've always got them together. So what we do with lists often is we create or put together videos around one particular genre. Now, I'm a big fan of using playlists. For example, I've got playlists here about how to learn Polish. I've got playlists here about things like yoga. I've got playlists here about music theory. So whenever I find interesting videos around a particular topic, I save them all together in a playlist. So that's another great benefit. And you can only do that if you have a YouTube channel. So how can we upload a video into our channel? Well, once we've got our channel, the only thing that we need to do is click on this button over here. And that will allow us to upload our videos. Now, I said to you that when you upload a video, you can choose your level of privacy. So I'm going to click on Upload Video. And I've got three levels of major kind of levels of privacy that I can set. That is public, unlisted, and private. Scheduled is if you want to upload the video to be available later. Now, I'm going to set a video now as unlisted. That means that only people that I share the link with can actually ever find this video. I'm then going to click here. And then all I need to do is actually find my video. So I'm just going to click back and quickly find the video that I want to upload. Here it is. Just going to click on that. Click on Open. And immediately, that video is uploaded. Now, while the video is being uploaded, I can give the vote video a title. So I'd write a title in here. I'd give the video a description. So I'd write the description here. And it's a good idea to give the video some tags so that it's easy to find that video. Now, that video is already uploaded onto my channel. And now, if I was to click on the button done, that is it. That video is now ready. You can see how quick it is for me to actually create the video. I'm not creating it, but find the video on my computer and then upload it into my channel. Now, let's have a quick look at that video. And the easiest way to do that is to click over here on the right-hand side. And just to click on Studio Creator, because that brings you into a place where you can see all the videos that you've uploaded, and you can edit, and et cetera. And there is that video that we just uploaded. And in fact, if I clicked on that and just opened it up a second, there it is. The video is already OK. I'm going to stop the videos up and running on the channel already, so it's that easy. Now, I can edit that. If I come back to my YouTube channel, I can just click here on Edits, and I can do all sorts of things like change the title or change the description. This is where I can also add that nice thumbnail by uploading an image that will sit on top of the video, or I can choose one of the thumbnails that YouTube automatically produces for me. And the other very useful thing is, of course, that sometimes you've uploaded a video that you don't want to keep. I can just click back here, and I can delete a video, very, very simply, again, from this area, which is basically where you can manage your videos. So it's the Video Manager, and I can just click here. And if I don't want to keep that video, I can click on Delete, OK? So these are some videos that I've very recently uploaded, and you can see the number of plays. So far, I haven't really promoted these videos, so there aren't that many plays on them. But some of my videos will get 1,000 plays, or 200, 300 plays, et cetera. So you can see the whole idea of how easy it is to upload a video, give your video some information. And of course, any video that you upload, and just a final thing to show you, any video that you upload, if you want to share it with your students, then all you need to do is to simply go to that particular video. So let's, for example, go to this video here. And if we want to share a video that we've uploaded with our students, then all we need to do is stop on that, click on the Share button there. And obviously, you're going to click on Copy, and just copy that link and share that with your students. They can access your video. Remember, if you upload a video as unlisted, the only way that students can access it is if they actually have the address of that particular video. Now one really important thing about your channel is not just the content that you upload, but how you organize it. If someone comes to your channel, what are they going to see? Well, if you move over to the left here, click over here and click on my channel, you're actually going to see what the public are going to see. And you can see that you can upload here a nice image at the top. You can also, if you come down here, see that I've organized some of the content. So I've got different topics, recent videos, and Learn Camtasia, Google Docs in Education. And I can basically create these sections so that when people come to my channel, they can immediately see what content is available. Now to add a section, it's very easy. Just click here, I'll just give you an example. I'm going to add a section. What section am I going to upload? I'm going to have a section of my most popular videos, so I click on Popular Uploads. I'm going to have that horizontal, and there it is, and I can even see that, for example, this video has been watched 78,000 times. This one, 44,000, I'm going to click on Done. And I've now created a new section on my channel where I've got my most popular videos. So learning to organize your channel and make it as attractive as possible is really important, especially if you are trying to monetize your channel. Now, as I said, there is a limit. You do need to have a certain number of subscribers. Currently, I'm not sure how many that is. For a while, it was certainly 5,000. It may have changed recently, but you do normally need a certain number of subscribers before you can monetize your channel. I really hope that that video was useful, and it gave you a bit of an idea about your YouTube channel. Please subscribe to my channel. If you come to any of my videos, you can just click on the Subscribe button underneath. 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