YouTube - a Great Curation Tool

As an educator, you spend a lot of time finding 'just right' resources for your students. Cultivating your curation skills means finding the right content for your students and being able to access it easily! If you are like me, you sometimes can't find a resource when you need it, and have spent precious time trying (and sometimes failing) to find it again!

YouTube has been with us for a long time now. As teachers, we are used to searching YouTube for great content to educate and engage our students.

I have been familiar with the Playlist feature YouTube provides, and have used it a time or two to create playlists for students to watch. For some reason, I never thought about using this feature to help organize my curated videos for various courses! While preparing for my Google Educator exam this summer, the benefits were a blinding glimpse of the obvious!

Navigate to YouTube using your @concordcarlise.org Google account. (You can use the 'Grid'!)

Once you have located a video you would like, find the + icon located below the video.

When you click on the +, you should see a list of any playlists that you have already made.

Place a check mark next to the desired playlist, or click the + Create new playlist on the bottom of the window to create a new playlist.

Of course, you should name the playlist something useful for you. You can create playlists for courses, units/chapters, or topics!

If you return to your YouTube account homepage, you will find your Playlists listed on the left-hand side menu. (If you have as many as I do, click Show more to expand your view and see them all!)

When you select a Playlist, you will see all the videos you have added:

YouTube will automatically add new videos to the bottom of the list. If order matters to you, hover on a video. You can move the video by clicking and dragging on the three vertical dots that appear. Drag your video to the position in the list you desire!

Do you own videos in digital format (either purchased or created?). You can easily upload them to your YouTube account as well to keep everything organized in one place!

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