Tools to help find, create and store meaningful video resources

The speed at which technology is advancing is revolutionizing how, where, and even when students access and share information. There is no doubt that video is central to the ‘how’ of information access in the modern age. Viewing, creating and sharing videos for education is becoming easier to achieve, allowing teachers to use video to assist in creating learning experiences using media types that students are familiar and comfortable with.

To use video effectively in the classroom, teachers need to be able to capture, upload, download, edit, annotate, curate, share, and otherwise “own” video content so that it fully merges with everything else in the learning experience they are trying to build. With that in mind, below some resources for finding and creating video resources and how to then store those video resources in Schoolbag for your students to view in an add-free and secure environment.

1. The Education Playbook Guide, put together by YouTube for educators is a great tool for providing tailored strategies to help you create and use YouTube content in line with their site-wide best practices.
2. TeacherTube is a safe educational community where teachers, students and parents can search for content, and hold discussions.
3. TubeChop allows you to easily chop content from any video and share it.
4. YouTube Creator Academy provides free online tutorials to help you strengthen skills for creating YouTube videos for your YouTube channel.
5. YouTube EDU has a great range of channels and videos targeted at different levels and covering a wide range of subjects. It is a great place to start when you’re looking for meaningful educational video content to add to your lesson.
6. YouTube in the Classroom is a great source of information for explaining how to use YouTube in the classroom, how to overcome technical difficulties and how to respect copyright and the terms of service when using YouTube in an educational setting.
7. YouTube has its own video editor that allows you to add captions, annotations, effects, transitions, timelines, and crop parts you do not want to show, you can also select a song from YouTube’s library to add to your video legally.

Great, so once you’ve created you awesome video or found a cool resource to use in class and you’ve used it in your lesson, how do you make that resource available for students to view six months from now when they have to review their learning for their exam? You could remember the link, save it somewhere perhaps and then dig around in your computer for a while, find the link again and share it with students when they ask for it.

A better solution would be to upload the resource directly to Schoolbag, its a great place to store your YouTube videos, and any other educational resources that you create. It’s safe, it’s secure, it’s add-free, and it’s a great online organiser for your students. Schoolbag can house an unlimited amount of teacher resources that you can share with your students in topic folders assigned to each class. Once you’ve uploaded your resource to Schoolbag you can share it with a class, add it to different topic folders, and even attach it to a homework assignment. So no more rummaging for the link you once had for that great resource that students want to see again. Just upload it to Schoolbag and share it in your class resources folder.

Sign up for a free Schoolbag account now.

Originally published at learningdata.ie on February 3, 2015.