50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom - ON AMAZON!

It's finally here! 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom is now available on Amazon! Increase productivity, inspire creativity, improve communication skills, capture student interest, and personalize learning.  From basic navigation to simple integration ideas to content creation and channel optimization, this book will help you harness the power of today’s most popular video platform and convert it to a dynamic tool for learning. 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom is a must-have guide for every teacher looking to inspire and connect learning to the digital world their students inhabit.

Read more about the book at YouTubeClassroom.com and check out the 20 video tutorials accompanying the book at youtube.com/pgreensoup

Facebook Takeover Time

This next week I'm sharing a bit about my upcoming book on the Project Learn Inspired by EdTechTeam Press Facebook Page. If you are interested in infusing your classroom with a bit of YouTube creativity and fun, then please do join me over at the above mentioned page and join in the conversation!

Why Subscribe on YouTube?

YouTubers are always asking for you to subscribe to their channels.  And you should, if you like the videos being produced.  By subscribing to a particular YouTube channel, and depending on your notification settings, you'll be alerted when the channel uploads new content.  Additionally, the new content will be highlighted on the "home" page whenever you head over to YouTube.  Speaking of subscribing, if you are wanting more tips and tricks for using YouTube in an educational setting, you should subscribe to my channel, where I'm publishing 20 tutorials to go with my new book 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom.  

Filter a YouTube Search to Find the Good Stuff

There are tons of educational videos on YouTube. In fact, there are over 1 billion views each day on learning-related YouTube videos.  One strategy for zeroing in on the best stuff is to filter your search by channel or playlist.  If you filter down to channel, you're search results will surface producers (channels) that are related to your search topic- organizations that will continue to create material related to your topic.  And if you filter by playlist, you'll search will surface collections of videos that other users have bundled together - which might help you to find a number of quality videos on the same topic. In this video, I'll show you how to filter your YouTube search. If you're interested in viewing the other 19 videos being produced as part of 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube Channel.


 If you are looking to expand your use of YouTube, check out my book 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom over at YouTubeClassroom.com

The YouTube Classroom Book Website is LIVE!

The website is up!  Check out YouTubeClassroom.com where you can:
1.  Read some early reviews of 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom.
2.  Sign-up for the mailing list so you'll be notified when the book is available on Amazon.
3. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get free supplemental tutorials for each chapter.

Coming Soon: 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom

I'm excited to announce my latest project: 50 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom launches this November with EdTechTeam Press.  The best way to make sure you don't miss anything is to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Reflections on a Year of YouTube and Flipping the Classroom

This past summer, I was fortunate to be selected to participate in a full day of training in screencasting and flipped teaching at the YouTube Teacher Studio at the Google offices in Kirkland.  It was a fantastic day of learning and connecting with other educators doing great things to improve learning.  Many thanks go to Will Houghtelling, Jim Sill, James Sanders and Ramsey Musallam for the fantastic professional development they offered.  And also to excellent new colleagues like Karen Mensing who contributed heavily to my personal learning network.

Often times when we go back to the realities of our regular jobs, the excitement of our new learnings fade, and we don't follow through with those big plans we had.  I was determined to really make an effort to incorporate YouTube and Flipped teaching into my work with teachers this year.   Each month I contributed playlists to YouTube/teachers - and about half the time I teamed up with a content specialist to on this partly because I don't have any specific classes of my own, and partly to promote the use of YouTube.  Additionally I teamed up with a fantastic Physics teacher and co-led two 45 minute Flipped Teaching Salons (designed to spark interest amongst other teachers) during a Professional Development day.  The sessions were well received by the 25 attendees.  These salons were the spark for many 1 on 1 follow up sessions where I worked with teachers to be able to use the tools on their Mac to record instruction then post to YouTube.  Two teachers I work with have really gotten into the method.  The Physics teacher I mentioned with YouTube channel "druceisp" (although it is still private) has uploaded 294 videos to date, and is completely restructuring how he organizes his courses.  Our guitar teacher is getting started on recording EVERY lesson for his beginning guitar classes (tonyackermanguitar). He only has about 10 public at this time, but will be "releasing" them as appropriate, timed with his classes next year. I've really enjoyed the thoughtful conversations that have come about while supporting teachers in this methodology.


Wanting to use YouTube to host some excellent, creative, student content, I helped the European Student Film Festival design a channel and get all of their student submissions and "24 Hour Challenge Films" online for viewing by a larger audience.

I also made a commitment to do more screencasting myself.  When ever I was asked a question that was best answered by showing, I tried to take the time to do it with a video so that I would have it to use again the next time I was asked.  Similarly, when working with teachers on longer projects, such as an interview project in Psychology where the final product was a podcast, I used video to record instruction that could be accessed at anytime, making the instruction so much more meaningful to the various groups of students.  My screencasting skills have improved over the year, and I'm much quicker now (although it is still difficult to listen/watch my own videos).

Looking back, I'm so grateful for the training I received at the YouTube Teacher Studio, and thankful for the connections and friendships made.  YouTube is an extremely flexible and relevant tool that is easily adapted for use in the educational realm.  Screencasting and YouTube are now just part of my daily work flow.

YouTube.com/Teachers

This past July I spent an action-packed day learning about YouTube in the classroom at The YouTube Teachers Studio with fantastic lead learners, Jim Sill, Ramsey Musallam and James Sanders. We heard from Will Houghteling about what the YouTube Education team is cooking up. One of their goals is to find a way to give access of the great educational content that exists on YouTube to the teachers and students in schools where YouTube is currently blocked. They have a number of good ideas in the works. Today they launched YouTube.com/Teachers to support teachers with ideas for using YouTube in the classroom complete with examples and screencasting tips. Additionally teachers can sign up for the YouTube newsletter for teachers and submit their favorite YouTube playlists to be highlighted on YouTube EDU. You can read more about the launch on YouTube's blog and view my interview below.