Vodcasting
Using video clips online
If you wish to use a method for your students to see video clips online to support or enhance your teaching, you can easily set up a domain on YouTube that can be used specifically for your course. The instructions for doing this are below. The benefits of using YouTube are:
- It’s free!
- You can enable or disable students from uploading their own videos
- You can pre-moderate videos before they are made viewable on the site
- You can enable or disable comments for individual videos
- There are no media streaming issues at this end – your video is simply uploaded to YouTube.
- You can enable or disable users being able to subscribe to RSS feeds that alert them of new content on your site.
- You can block users you do not wish to interact with the site.
- You can embed individual videos directly into web pages or you can link to your YouTube site from inside or outside Blackboard.
To see examples of existing sites at UWE that are using YouTube, go to
- http://www.youtube.com/uwemyfuture , a video casting site to support the MyFUTURE careers advice site at UWE.
- http://www.youtube.com/bristoluwe , a video casting site run by UWE's marketing service for general videos and information on UWE.
Both of these sites have started recently and do not have a lot of content, so to see a large, organisation specific, site go to http://www.youtube.com/bbc.
At the moment you cannot authenticate access to your YouTube site (i.e. cannot require users to log in) and users cannot download videos from the sites.
If you would like any further advice on the use of video in your teaching, please do not hesitate to contact Liz Falconer (Liz.Falconer@uwe.ac.uk) or Manuel Frutos-Perez (Manuel.Frutos-Perez@uwe.ac.uk).
How to set up your Vodcasting site on YouTube
- Create your free YouTube account.
Note that the username you choose will be the name of your vodcasting site. - Validate your account via the e-mail link that YouTube will send you after registration.
- Log in to YouTube.
- Go to your YouTube channel. The address for this will be YouTube's address followed by the username you chose during registration. E.g. http://www.youtube.com/fredblogs
- You will now see your channel that is empty and ready to be customised. Click on the button "Edit channel" to alter the look and feel of your site, your channel preferences and how its contents are displayed.
- Upload your videos via the link "My account" (top right-hand corner of the screen).
Everytime you upload a video you can set specific preferences for that video (whether you want to allow video responses to it and pre-moderate them, whether you want to allow comment responses to it and pre-moderate them, etc.).
