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Your Personal YouTube Account. By: Brandon Halstead. Overview. In order to overcome your inability to share videos online, you will learn the following today in YouTube: The importance & relevance of an account How to create & log onto your account
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Your Personal YouTube Account By: Brandon Halstead
Overview In order to overcome your inability to share videos online, you will learn the following today in YouTube: • The importance & relevance of an account • How to create & log onto your account • How to post videos & make comments in your account • Finally, demonstrate your knowledge by creating your own account
Goal • Learners will be able to successfully create and then use their own personal YouTube account, in order to help them be more efficient with their video sharing needs.
Objectives • Be able to access the YouTube website online through an Internet browser. • Be able to create your own YouTube account and log onto it. • Be able to use the features of your YouTube account, which includes posting videos & making comments
What you already know You might be familiar with: • Watching videos on TV • Watching online videos • Or even viewing YouTube clips But lets take it one step further by using your YouTube account
How to Begin • Lets start by opening up your internet browser and logging onto YouTube Type “www.youtube.com” in the URL bar at the top of your browser
Creating Your Account • Lets start our creation by clicking on the “Create Account” link at the top right of your YouTube page
Creating Your Account You will now type in your personal information into the appropriate boxes and then press “I accept” at the bottom Be sure to have correctly keyed in each of the following: Email address (ex. halstebg@yahoo.com) Username (ex.halstebg2) Location (ex. United States) Postal Code (ex. 23005) Date of Birth (ex. May 28 1990) Gender (click in bubble)
Creating Your Account Continue by: Choosing a password (ex. Runner33) Retyping that same password (ex. Runner33) Type the letters in the box as they appear above (ex. Bilitize) Finally click on the Create my new account link
Creating Your Account Once you have reached this page, you have successfully completed your account
Logging in Your Account It is now time to log back into YouTube and press the Sign In link After Clicking Sign in you will come to the screen on the left, where you will need to type in the following information: Username (ex. halstebg@yahoo.com) Password (ex. Runner33) Click on Sign in
Logging in Your Account Now that you are logged into YouTube, it is time to visit the Channel you created Click on your username at the top right of your screen A drop down window will appear, where you will select “My Channel”
Using Your Account It is now time to attach a video Next you need to paste a URL to a YouTube video in the window (ex.www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5cm_rqivo) Finally press post bulletin Under your Recent Activity Tab in your channel click on “Attach a video”
You Did It • You now have a video of your choice on your account • Take a minute to marvel at what you have accomplished
Using Your Account It is now time to post a comment on your channel Simply type in the “add comment” section of your Channel Comments (ex. NFL video is some crazy stuff) Then press Post Comment
Just the Beginning You have now learned a great deal about a YouTube account. You are able to create your own account, add videos, and make comments. Even with everything you have learned, you are still only scratching the surface of what YouTube has to offer. Be encouraged though, you have come a long way and are capable of learning a lot more.
Now It’s Your Turn It is now time to put all that you have learned into practice. Your assignment going out from here is to create your own YouTube account, post a video on your account, and leave a comment about that video. You have the knowledge, prove what you know
So where do I go from here? The great thing about your YouTube account is that your never finished. There is always more to learn about, so seek out new knowledge about what your account still has to offer Explore and have fun learning about the benefits that await Good luck and enjoy!