YouTube+Tutorial

=The YouTube Aesthetic=

Have you experienced the YouTube aesthetic? As a consumer? How about as a creator? In this course, you'll do both.

YouTube provides the perfect vehicle for sharing our work with a wider audience of educators and teen readers. It's an online gallery for our creative efforts.

To hang your bookcasts in this gallery:

Step 1: Create a YouTube account. First 1:33 of this tutorial from a Web-wizened, over ten-year-old boy could be helpful and charming.

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Step 2: Upload your bookcast to your channel. Be sure to title your video with your book title and your first name. Select No Comments. Anonymity on the Web breeds unruliness. Here's a video tutorial to guide you through the process:

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And here's a quick how-to on how to turn off comments:

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Step 3: Congratulations! Your bookcast is published online now. To share with our class and the world, you can now add the link (look under "Share") and then copy and paste it in the Bookcast Gallery form. You'll see your video appear in the spreadsheet below.