YouTube is a popular video-sharing website and is one of the most-viewed websites on the Internet today. Join us as we look at many of the social features that YouTube offers and explore how to make the most of watching videos. We’ll also discuss how to better find and share videos, and we’ll look at how libraries are using YouTube in their promotion and instruction. About the Instructor: Rachel Eichen is a certified presenter who has had over three years of teaching experience. She has taught computer classes to passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship, which included such topics as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office. She also taught classes while working within the software industry. She enjoys learning about new technology trends and loves sharing this information with others. Rachel holds a Master’s degree in Library & Information Science and a bachelor’s degree in Technical Writing.

1. Presenter: Rachel Eichen
Novare Library Services

2. Quick Poll (1-10)

3. Agenda
 History
 Basics
 Tips & Tricks
 Libraries
 Resources

4. History of Youtube
 Created by 3 ex-Paypal employees
 Wanted to share videos easily
 Google purchased in 2006

5. Youtube Today
 Continues to grow
 More than 35 hrs of new content daily
 The “new” MTV
 Mobile integration
 Everyone can upload!

6. Let’s YouTube

7. Tips and Tricks: Searching
 ,channel to search only channels
 ,long to search videos > 20 min.
 ,partner to only search official videos
 ,hd to find only high quality videos
Ex: “ted talks, hd, partner, long”

8. Links
 Add &start=30 to start 30s in
 Add #t=03m22s to start 3 mins, 22 sec
 Add &autoplay=1 to make video play
automatically
 Add &loop=1 to loop video
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=HRxoeyHeLjo&start=30&loop=1

9. Google Hangouts
http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hango
uts/

10. YouTube Live
http://www.youtube.com/live/

11. Tubereplay
http://www.tubereplay.com/

12. YouTube Testtube
http://www.youtube.com/testtube

13. Youtube Disco
www.youtube.com/disco

14. FlashBlock

15. Library of Congress
Youtube
www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress

16. Tutorials
Gulf Coast Library
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThS7tN
Oqp2o

17. Resources
 YouTube Creator
 YouTube Charts
 Youtube & Libraries
 Using Youtube in Libraries

18. What do you you use?
 Camtasia – for webcasts
 iMovie
 Vimeo (instead of Youtube)
 Use for research, instruction (peer
review, plagiarism), speeches, slideshows
 Book review contest and upload vidoes
 eVance tutorials
 Libguides
 Booktrailers – Simon &
Schuster, Penguin, Random House, Storey
Publishers, MacMillan, Little Brown

19. Any questions?

20. Rachel Eichen
rachel@novarelibrary.com
slideshare.net/adverb
www.novarelibrary.com
www.learnsurge.com