Thing 12 - YouTube, Slideshare, Flickr
July 17th, 2009 | by Ian Lee1. Thing 12: YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare: Webcam Conversations
2. What are media sharing sites ?
Thing 12 covers three free sites -YouTube, Flickr and Slideshare.net . You Tube is a media-sharing site for video, Flickr is for images and Slideshare is for slidesets like PowerPoint.
They are like online libraries - except that you don’t get fined if you don’t return your stuff on time. In fact you can use the content to watch the video, view the photographs and images and see the slide shows all for free. Like a library you will need to register if you want to make full use of things.
While these sites let you use their content you can also contribute your own images, movies and slide sets very easily.
There is a plethora of material available on these sites, some of it useful for research.
These three sites are also examples of how you can find information by using social elements like rating, tagging, subscribing, commenting and adding fans.
Material from them can be embedded into other sites, like your own blog.
The way a sharing site works is examined in the Online Photo Sharing in Plain English video from Commoncraft.
3. Why are we learning about media sharing sites?
For Thing 12 we are going to show you a number of things. All these things have one thing in common. That is they are all different. Different from each other but most importantly different from text.
A word about text
Sure we all know what text is. You still see it all the time, in books, newspapers and magazines. Sometimes even cartoons have text in them. Sometimes we even fill up whole books with text and call them textbooks. The trouble with text is that you have to learn to read to really appreciate it. And to create text you might need to learn to spell (but that’s optional really).
Now how these media sharing sites are different from text is that they are primarily not text (now that should be a word).
So these tools provide a window to the world that is media that is not text.
These three tools can be both fun and - if used the right way- can teach you things and help others to learn things.
Suppose you were teaching counselling and psychotherapy to postgraduate psychology students and wanted to show or demonstrate some different types of counselling and also give it a historical flavour. This is where video really demonstrates that it is different from text.
You could go to YouTube and do a search for “counselling”. If this doesn’t get you there try counselling rogers gloria.
You would get a result list that contained the following in the first few hits. Note that the Related Videos panel on the right pulls together other relevant videos in this series. I always imagined that Carl Rogers would have a lot of long hair!!!!
CARL ROGERS & GLORIA COUNSELLING - Part 1
4. What you need to do to complete this Thing
To complete Thing 12 please do one or more of the following;
- Find an educationally relevant You Tube video and embed it in your blog. Comment about how easy it was.
- Get yourself a Flickr account and upload a photo and then link to this photo from your blog. Comment about how incredibly easy this was.
- Find a SlideShare presentation that teaches you something you want or need to learn and embed a link to that in your blog. Comment in your blog that Thing 12 is a misnomer and it is actually at least three things.
5. How to do the exercise
5.1 YouTube
Go to YouTube and search for murdoch and desalination. You are likely to find a video of our Vice Chancellor .
You can copy the URL or embed code for this video.
Addng a link to the video URL will take you off to YouTube and show you the video.
Copying and pasting the embed code into your blog post will make the video play in your blog post. When you do this, make sure that you are using the HTML editor, not the visual editor.
Search for a video that either interests you or is on a topic of educational interest that you might find relevant to yourself or others. Use the instructions above, plus the demonstration in the “webcam conversation” to embed the video into a blog post.
5.2 Flickr
Flickr is a photo sharing site. It also allows uploads of videos under 90 seconds long.
You can poke around in Flickr without registering but its more fun to join up and join in.
1. Create an account
Go to Flickr
Select “Create Your Account”
If you are not already a member of Yahoo!, then select “Sign up” near the top of the screen. Enter the required data and select “Create my Account”
When you have successfully signed up, you will see a screen that asks “Ready to experience Flickr?”. You will be asked to verify your account by entering your password. Choose a Flickr Screen name and click Create New Account.
2. Upload photos
Select “Upload your first photos”
Click “Choose photos and videos”
You can then browse to the photos you would like to upload from your PC
Select the image (or images) you want and click open.
You can Add more if you want.
Choose whether you want the item to be private or public and then click Upload Photos and Videos.
Wait while the photos load.
Once it has finished uploading click on “add a description”
You can add a tag to all photos with “Batch Operations” and describe and tag individual photos. Separate tags with a space. You can join two words together (rabbithutch), add in an underscore (rabbit_hutch) or use quotes (”rabbit hutch”).
Click “Save” when you are done.
5.3 SlideShare
Go to Slidehare
Slideshare lets you do the following
“Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar”
Use the search facility to try to find a slide show that teaches you something you need to know about.
With Slideshare you can do the follwing;
- After you have registered it is an easy process to upload your own Powerpoint presentations to Slideshare.
- You can make these public or private. If you choose private you can even get a secret URL.
- You can allow downloading of your slide sets or not.
- Formats that are supported also include Microsoft Word, Excel, other formats can be converted to pdf prior to upload.
- Word documents load and end up looking like … word documents.
- Excel spreadsheets have no functionality whilst viewing them on slideshare but can be downloaded and work just like the original.
- You can also see statistics about how frequently your documents have been viewed or downloaded.
- You can add audio to your presentation.
- Being remotely hosted allows for access from any where with a PC. Instead of making many copies one copy used by many.
- Can use advanced search to find Creative Commons material.
6. If you want to try more….
PLAY AROUND AND EXPLORE FLICKR
Try adding a note to your photo. This will appear when you move your mosue over the image. “Add Note” icon on top left of photo.
If you want more from Flickr there are a plethora of open free tools to use.Try Flickr Tool box for over 100 interesting tools to use with Flickr. Have a look at Flickr Search for Creative Commons
Want to see what happens when Creative Commons meets Photoshop? have a look a the Re-Picture Australia Flickr group.
Educause Seven Things you should know about …YouTube
Educause Seven Things you should know about…Flickr
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