Activity 5: YouTube Channel

I already had a YouTube channel connected with my Mounds View Schools account and have used it primarily to upload science videos for my science class to access. As a Flipped teacher, I was uploading all of my flipped videos for my math students onto Moodle. However, I like the idea of anyone being able to access my videos from anywhere, as YouTube is multi-device friendly. I am still kind of playing around with the "Playlists" feature - as of now, I have playlists set up within my channel based on class/content area. I don't find the Channel Home interface visually appealing to my students, but it doesn't seem like I have a lot of control over that. Perhaps though don't really need to see the Channel Home page since mostly they will just be accessing videos from my embed codes within Moodle/my website.

I use Knowmia on the iPad to create and record videos for my math class. In order to post them onto YouTube, I have to login to my Knowmia account, download my video as an MP4 to my laptop, and then upload onto Moodle. This is definitely an extra step compared to just linking/embedding directly from Knowmia.com but the advantage of having all of my own videos in one location for everyone to access (parents and students alike) outweighs this. Here is a video I created last year introducing angles to my math students.