Did You Know This About YouTube?

YouTube Help offers three helpful playlists for learning tips and tricks about YouTube and the YouTube mobile apps. The Did You Know? playl...

Common Core, Book Trailers, and Three Good Tools for Creating Them

In last month's issue of The Digital Shift I featured the site Book Trailers for Readers . Book Trailers for Readers was developed by t...

A Crash Course in Psychology

Hank Green has launched a new Crash Course series on YouTube. His new series is all about psychology. The first video was released yesterda...

5 Ways for Students to Create Audio Slideshows

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

How to Make Your Own Version of "YouTube Rewind 2013"

Earlier today Google released YouTube Rewind 2013. YouTube Rewind 2013 is a playlist of the top trending, searched, and viewed videos of t...

Three Good and Free Options for Mobile Video Editing

One of the elements that is common to almost every video recorded on a mobile device is "throw away" footage at the beginning and ...

Now You Can Domain-restrict Access to Your YouTube Videos

Google Apps for Education users who have Google+ enabled have a new privacy option available to them. The new option allows you to restrict ...

How to Create Audio Slideshows in YouTube

Twice in the last two days at the WLMA 2013 conference I demonstrated how to create audio slideshows on YouTube. Creating audio slideshows i...

On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use

For the last couple of years Vimeo has offered free music to download and re-use in your video projects. Now YouTube is offering the same t...

WikiTube Adds Videos to Wikipedia Entries

WikiTube is a nice Chrome extension that adds relevant videos to Wikipedia pages. With the extension installed and enabled just visit a Wik...

43+ Alternatives to YouTube

Excellent educational content can be found on YouTube . However, not every teacher can access YouTube in his or her classroom. That's w...

Three Things to Consider When Planning Video Projects

This afternoon at the TICL conference I gave a short presentation about classroom video projects. Part of that presentation is a short list...

8 Overlooked Useful YouTube Tools

When most people think about YouTube they think sharing videos and or about all of the videos they can discover. Most people don't think...

Watch2Gether - Watch and Discuss Videos Online

Watch2gether is a neat site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. I've written ab...

90 Videos That Will Help You Make Better Videos

Last week I featured the Vimeo Video School's series about stillmotion video creation. YouTube also has an extensive collection of vide...

How to Create YouTube Photo Slideshows - A Good Alternative to Animoto

Animoto is an excellent tool for creating audio slideshows. But there are some limitations to it that some teachers don't like. Most no...

Choose What Happens Next - A Series of Video Lessons on Responsible Cyber Citizenship

This afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina I sat in on a good presentation about YouTube's video editing tools. The presentation was deli...

5 Ways to Add Interactive Elements to Your Videos

Over the last few days I've featured a couple of free tools for adding interactive elements to your videos. In the last year I've re...

A Simple Tool for Cleaning Up Your YouTube Viewing Experience

Today, I spent the day running workshops in Springfield, Massachusetts. In a few of my workshops the question of how to go about safely show...

Check Out These YouTube EDU Gurus

Last month YouTube launched a Star Search of sorts to find the next ten YouTube EDU Gurus. This week those new gurus were revealed and I...