[music playing]
Speaker: OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network,
Chris Vela Che: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Chris Vela Che. Well, thank you very much for joining my session today on teach, engage, and humanize your class with YouTube Shorts. My name is Chris Vela Che, and these are my emails. I work both at these places, MiraCosta College and San Diego College of Continuing Ed.
So Mariana handed out some worksheets, or not worksheets but just out handouts, yes. So you will have everything that I will show you here in the handout. So you don't need to take notes or anything. You have everything that I will show you here there. It's just a little more concise in the handout. But let's begin. Let's begin.
So before we begin, does anybody know YouTube Shorts, YouTube Shorts?
Audience: I know of but not how to create them. That's why I'm here.
Chris Vela Che: Yes, excellent.
Audience: I've seen some Shorts on YouTube.
Chris Vela Che: On YouTube, so you have an idea what--
Audience: It's a short.
Chris Vela Che: Yes, like the name says they are very short videos, like the equivalents of TikTok but minus the issues that we have.
Audience: TikTok
[laughter]
Audience: Security and all the things behind TikTok these days. So yes, that's going to be our presentation today talking about short videos and how you can create some for your class. They're very easy videos, and we'll dive into that in a minute. But before we get into our YouTube Shorts, again, we're going to do the same thing. And I think everybody knows each other here, or no. Do we know each other?
Audience: No everyone.
Chris Vela Che: Not everyone. Should we do this individually? So what I want you to do is just take a few minutes and introduce yourself, your name, the place you work and the class you teach. And then we'll go to the next questions here. Have you ever watched YouTube Shorts? And I think Susan has. Reels, has anybody heard of the word Reels?
Audience: I seen it on Facebook, but I've never--
Chris Vela Che: It's the competition-- well, we have TikTok. We have YouTube Shorts and Reels for Instagram. So different companies.
Audience: It's on Facebook too.
Chris Vela Che: Yes, Facebook so they own Instagram now. So same concept, short, catchy videos. So that's the question for you. Have you ever watched Shorts, Reels or TikTok videos? If so, can you describe? So what was striking from those videos? They were fast. They have music. So what else can you tell about these videos? And what was the video about, if you watch? What is usually the content that you check from these videos? Is it recipes? Is it educational content? Is it just a crazy person doing something?
So anyways, let's begin with introduce yourselves. So let's do it individually. We're going to start with Mariana here. Mariana, tell us--
Audience: Man, I'm on the spot now.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Yes, tell us Mariana.
Audience: Hello, everyone. My name is Mariana Silva. I teach with Chris at MiraCosta College. I almost said San Diego Continuing Ed because I was there for one year, and my colleague Cindy is here too from San Diego Continuing Ed, well, previous job, right? I have seen YouTube Shorts. I think it's the music, the fact that they're concise, and the fun stuff, right? It's usually something fun, engaging, and you learn something quick from them. I can think of what kind of-- I think just the funny, silly stuff that I've seen. One of my kids draw me into that, right? TikTok, I don't do TikTok, right?
Audience: Me either.
Audience: Maybe not [inaudible] anymore, right?
Chris Vela Che: There's a lot [tiktok], yeah.
Audience: That's it.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, thank you very much, Mariana. I don't know who else. Susan.
Audience: OK, Hi, I'm Susan, and I don't work. Well, I'm retired.
[laughter]
I do work work.
Audience: You do work.
Audience: So I think I have seen Reels on Facebook where they do recipes really quick.
Chris Vela Che: Yes, I like those.
Audience: And it's like super speedy recipes, and you watch it and they put that right there.
[laughter]
And then TikTok I don't do. And then Shorts, I think I was looking-- because I teach ESL, I want to look for Shorts because they're short. And I think I've searched them, and sometimes they tell a story.
Chris Vela Che: Yes, yes, there is a lot of content that you can create and that is also created out there that we can use for our students, like the short attention span, that's perfect if you have a very quick recap lesson or something. There is already, like I said, there's already a lot of content on Shorts but it would be even better if we create our own so we personalize and humanize our practices even more. Thank you very much, Susan. And Cindy.
Audience: Hi, I'm Cindy Wislofsky, and I'm a former ESL teacher with the San Diego Community College District in the adult ed division. Now I work part-part time for OTAN. And I would say, as far as watching those, no, no, and no, unless I have by accident.
[laughter]
I have seen on Facebook the ones where they're showing you how to make a hairstyle.
Chris Vela Che: Oh, those are good too.
Audience: Is that one of them? Anyway, it's kind of fascinating stuff, but I have to watch it 10 times to get it.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Very good. Awesome, Cindy. Thank you. And then, you ma'am, what's your name?
Audience: Hi, I'm Adriana . And I am also retired. This is like the row of retired, semi-retired adult educators.
Audience: I want to sit in that row.
[laughter]
We never go away, though. Beware, OK? So I'm working currently part time with CCAE, the California Council for Adult Education. And so I don't have students. I don't have a classroom anymore. Oh, and I worked in the Sweetwater District, so I was administrator here at Chula Vista Adult for a time.
[alarm sounding]
But with regard--
Chris Vela Che: Oh, sorry, sorry.
Audience: With regard to YouTube Shorts and Reels, I don't have an Instagram account. CCAE does, but I don't manage it. TikTok, we don't do TikTok. But I have seen the--
Audience: Facebook ones.
Audience: Yeah the Facebook ones, that recipe ones, the hairdo ones. My laptop is set up to repeat those. So it just goes on repeat. So I'm good. So I see it 10 times and then I'm good.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: And then Shorts, yeah.
Audience: Yeah, so that's why I'm here. I want to learn more.
Chris Vela Che: Thank you. Thank you, Adriana, nice meeting you. Yeah, and then you can. What's your name?
Audience: Thank you. My name is Maria. [clear throat] Excuse me. I'm a CTE teacher at Highlands Community Charter School. We're in Sacramento. And I have actually never YouTube Shorts. I rarely use YouTube. I don't use TikTok, but I have seen Reels definitely on Instagram. I watch mostly recipes, and I watch a lot of culture content like when they say-- they reenact moments when you're young.
[laughter]
Your parents do this, and then when your parents turn to grandparents, they're nice, all of those--
[laughter]
[inaudible] that's a lot that comes up on my feed. So yeah.
Chris Vela Che: Nice meeting you, Maria.
Audience: Yes. And then you, sir.
Audience: Yeah, my name is Jerry Yamashita. I work for World Education. Former teacher, so I don't have a classroom anymore, but I do a lot of professional development and stuff like that now. I'm not super familiar with YouTube Shorts. They show up when I'm on YouTube, and I don't watch them. But I do use Instagram a lot, so I always see those come up, the Reels come up all the time. I like some of the history ones, like social science. They'll have condensed things, or news and politics, I'll follow some of those. Yeah, I like to-- I guess we all have that short attention span now.
[laughter]
Just give me the meat of the coconut right here.
Chris Vela Che: That's exactly right.
Audience: Let's move on.
Chris Vela Che: Awesome, thank you. And--
Audience: I'm Angelica, and I am at Monterey Adult School, Monterey Bay not Monterey Park in Los Angeles. So I'm up North two hours South of San Francisco, an hour South of San Jose-- Santa Cruz. That Monterey, not the LA one.
[laughter]
I can't tell you how many people-- oh, Monterey Park-- no, no. I teach beginning ESL and computer classes. I do watch the Shorts, the Reels, everything you've mentioned. In addition, our district puts out regular Shorts and Reels. We have one with the superintendent doing a silly dance trying to encourage people to attend advisory meetings and things like that or the board meeting. And they did one with our principal. Unbeknownst to her, it was all over social media. She's like, oh, no. She had no idea. And they're encouraging me, because I do the social media for the school and the school website, they want me to do more of these. I have no idea what I'm doing.
My husband has two nieces that are YouTube influencers. They have a channel, Cese Castillo, and so they travel all over Mexico and the United States. And they do these little videos. And so there's one of them dancing on the Golden Gate Bridge. There's one where they visit us in Monterrey and went to the wharf. And they're eating clam chowder for the first time. But yeah, they do these Shorts and Reels. They have thousands of viewers and--
Chris Vela Che: Oh, so they're famous.
Audience: [inaudible] their kids, yeah.
Audience: They have a certain audience though.
Chris Vela Che: Do they make money?
Audience: I believe so because that's how they can afford to keep traveling.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, just a little disclaimer. This workshop is-- I'm not going to teach you how to make money with this. But I want to show you how you can create content for your class. That would be a good idea to show you how do we monetize all of these videos. But that's going to be another session in the future.
Anyways, well, thank you very much for introducing yourselves and tell us a little bit about your experience with YouTube Shorts, Reels, or TikTok. Basically, these three things are similar in a way that they are short, condensed videos with music and filters and all sorts of stuff that are really catchy for everybody.
So at the end of the session, at the end of this presentation, what I want is for everybody, ' for all of you to be able to answer, what are YouTube Shorts? How you create YouTube Shorts? And what videos can you make for your class? So three things at the end of the lesson. So let's begin with the definition.
YouTube Shorts are short videos. That's it. They are 60 seconds or less. You can upload more seconds. It's just 60 or less. They're typically catchy, right? They have background music, animated text and filter, and a lot of other things. They are also called the TikTok version of YouTube. So if you know what a TikTok is, if you've seen it, if you've heard about it, it's the equivalent of that.
So what else? So viewers can dislike, comment, and subscribe. So if you create a YouTube Short, your students will be able to like, dislike, comment, and subscribe to your channel. So if you want to create in the future a small YouTube channel where you can store all your YouTube Shorts and you can recycle them for your classes, that's a great way to go.
So this QR code has a better explanation. Well, it's got more information about YouTube Shorts. It's 6 minutes and 8 seconds. So you have that in your handout. You can check that at home. But it's a very concise explanation what YouTube Shorts are. Again, just remember YouTube Shorts are just short videos, 60 second max, in vertical orientation. So you'll see them like this, like when you're scrolling up or down. So the layout is always going to be vertical.
You can also upload a content in horizontal. It will allow you to also use videos in horizontal orientation. But typically, this is the best format for this type of videos, vertical. So any questions about YouTube Shorts? I think that's pretty clear. Here's an example. I created this for my class at the beginning of the year. This was one of my welcome videos for onboarding my students, just a little introduction.
We often talk about the humanizing component that is so essential for our students to get that connection with students before the classes begin. So I created this Short. So you can watch it, and I don't know if I can play it from here maybe. I don't know if that's going to send me-- maybe not, maybe not. One second. No, let me go back over here. Yes, so I will show you this in a little bit. But as you can see, vertical, right? And as I said, if you create YouTube Shorts, your students will be able to like, dislike, comment, or share. You can also remix other videos with your videos. And it's pretty user friendly. So let me see. Let me go to the next slide.
So we are going to attempt and creating a YouTube short today, and I don't know how you feel about that, if you're ready. But I would like you to create something today, if possible. If you do want to try that, what you need is a cell phone. And I think all of you have a cell phone. We have internet, I think. Yes, we do have internet. And then you will need a YouTube app.
Audience: Is it just the regular YouTube app?
Chris Vela Che: Just the regular YouTube app. There is no YouTube Shorts app. It's just everything stored in one place. So if you have the YouTube app, you're good. If you don't, if you have an iPhone, you can scan this QR code. And it will take you to the App Store so you can download it for free. If you have an Android phone, of course, you will go to that QR code. And you will be able to download YouTube for free.
Of course, we're going to have to need a little patience. If you get a little lost, remember this is technology. And we all have to kind of breathe a little deeper when it comes to technology sometimes. And of course, imagination. So if you have all of these, and if you're ready, we're going to begin, everybody. So how do you make YouTube Shorts?
So the first thing you need to do is, once you download the YouTube app, right, this one over here-- this is my phone-- you're going to open it, right? You're going to open that app. And you will see this widget. What do we call these things widgets or symbols, icons? So you're going to click on that Plus button right here. And you are going to create a Short from scratch, from scratch.
And what else? What we're going to do next is select Keep current selection.
Audience: Mine doesn't say that.
Chris Vela Che: It doesn't say that?
Audience: Mine says create a Short, allow access--
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, you have to allow-- yeah.
Audience: And then--
Chris Vela Che: Then Keep current selection, Keep current selection.
Audience: Mine doesn't say that.
Chris Vela Che: It doesn't say that?
Audience: I click Create short--
Chris Vela Che: And you are there. Some of yours will--
[interposing voices]
Chris Vela Che: Excellent. Some of you-- OK, so then some of you will see this popping up from your phones. But some-- so I think if you are there--
Audience: We're ready to record.
Chris Vela Che: So now we can make a video. See how simple it is? Let's say you are at the beach and you want to connect with your students. And you're, hey, how was your weekend? Whatever. You can, hey--
Audience: Sorry students, I have been away. I've been busy.
[laughter]
Audience: I message them on Pronto. I said, if I'm late with grading, it's because wait for me. [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: How about if we make a welcome just for the test, just for this session? We can make a welcome video. Hi, my name is--
Audience: Can we see yours first?
Chris Vela Che: Yes, let me show you--
Audience: We need a model.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, let me show you mine. And I'm sorry. One second, everyone. Let me show you my example. I think--
Audience: Don't you want to go to your YouTube channel, or no?
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, I think I have it on my YouTube channel. But I thought I had it.
Audience: Don't you have it on there Chris?
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, I'm going to go to the YouTube channel, everybody.
Audience: You have it up there, right?
Audience: We won't look at your channel.
Chris Vela Che: Don't look at my history.
[laughter]
OK, let's see. Close your eyes, everybody. Oh, he's recording. Are you recording?
[laughter]
OK.
Audience: He's recording.
Chris Vela Che: One second, everybody. Where is my channel now? Do you see mine?
Audience: Do you go to your 'C'?
Chris Vela Che: No, I think I-- one second. I don't think that's--
Audience: Yeah, if you go to your blue C.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, I think it was from-- because I was signed out as my personal account. So let me show you then my example. Again, this was the first short that I created for my class, and that was a welcome video. Let's do some coding right now. Just so you learn coding. No coding today. So let me show you then my Short. This is my YouTube Short. And it's a welcome video.
[video playback]
[music playing]
Wow, look at this.
- Hello, students. Happy New year. My name is Chris Vela Che, and I will be your English Level 1 teacher. Our classes will be playing on Monday, January 23rd at the Community Learning Center in Oceanside. Our classroom number is 216. I am very happy to work with you and help you with your English. See you very soon. Bye.
[end playback]
Chris Vela Che: You can also add a little bit of something there. But anyway, so I forgot to mention. Most of my experience is for beginner ESL. So this video is, of course, very basic. It's just a little short introduction. But it took me less than five minutes to create. Of course, you have to prepare what you're going to say. And I think that's when it takes more time to think what you're going to say in that video and then add the rest. So very, very short. So what do you think? Any questions about the video?
Audience: Should we go there and like it?
[laughter]
Please, subscribe to my channel too. So let me go back again over here. So let's go back to-- let's see. What do I to go...?
Audience: Back, back.
Audience: So did you use the camera on your phone to do that?
Chris Vela Che: Yes.
Audience: You did.
Chris Vela Che: The beauty of this app, you just need your phone. You don't need a computer. You don't need an app to put music. It's everything within YouTube. So you film yourself, and then after you film yourself-- remember, 6 seconds max-- then you can do the fun part, which is adding text or adding the music. So yes, everything using my phone. I didn't use a computer to create the video I showed you. So very, very simple.
So that's what I want you guys to try to do today. And it doesn't have to be perfect. Again, you open the YouTube app. You click Plus, Create Short. Maybe you have that box. Maybe you don't. And let's go to the next one. Now what?
Audience: You have to hit the Record button.
Chris Vela Che: You have to record your video by hitting the red button. And again, this is a test. You can just, hi, hello, I am Mariana. I am at the DDLS 2023. Stop, right? So what we want to practice is adding the details to your video. So how about if you want to take a few seconds and do just like a 6-second video, whatever you want. Just introduce yourself. Yeah, of course.
Audience: Looking for a nice background.
[laughter]
Audience: We can put backgrounds, right?
Chris Vela Che: So everybody, just do a little--
Audience: I think it's recording. You see? But it is not towards me.
[side conversation]
Chris Vela Che: Once you finish, you're going to--
[side conversation]
Now, you're going to do decoration there. You have this one part over here. You're going to add music.
Now, I want you to add music, but I think-- it won't stop.
[laughter]
No, I think we need to go back and-- how about--
Yes, because you need to first add-- if you are going to add music or text--
Audience: So you can't go back and edit now. I think I clicked too far.
Chris Vela Che: That's OK. Yeah, that's you are ready to-- did you add music, or no?
Audience: No, no, no.
Chris Vela Che: You can go back and edit things. That's the problem with this. It's like once-- only if you want to save it as a draft and then--
Audience: OK, so now I have no video. I'm not hitting that button.
Chris Vela Che: And then--
Audience: Is there sound?
Chris Vela Che: Yes, that's sound.
Audience: Good.
Chris Vela Che: Now, if you guys already finish your video, the fun part begins. You have to add music.
[various music playing]
Very nice. What music is that!? I think we're having a lot of fun today, everybody. That's unholy. You're going to add music, add music by clicking on that musical symbol. Text.
[music playing] [inaudible]
Audience: Ooh, I like that.
Audience: [inaudible] to see why you have your green screen.
Chris Vela Che: The filters are right here, right here, background.
[music playing]
Audience: Oh, maybe you're there, huh?
Audience: Yeah.
Audience: Can you adjust the volume on--
Chris Vela Che: So everybody, I think we're listening to music.
[laughter]
You can add filters if you click on this little thing over here, the little sparkling--
Audience: Oh, OK.
Audience: How do I stop this? Oh, you [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: You can't hit the Check button. One second. Now, this is too loud. [inaudible]. Now, I think I forgot to mention the volume of your music.
[laughter]
Audience: Can you reduce the sound of the music?
Chris Vela Che: Yes, you can reduce it. When you go to volume, the little speaker over here.
Audience: Oh, look how cute she is.
Chris Vela Che: And then you click--
Audience: You must have you influencer friends there. OK, so just original sound. OK, I'm not there yet. I think I'm on the filter, so I'm afraid to hit the check button.
Chris Vela Che: Let's see.
Audience: I don't like this [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Create text. So if you like the voice-- I think the reason it's not stopping is because to make sure that your music is not too loud.
Audience: Yeah, I think I messed up. But you guys [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: So if I like that-- sure, we can. It's because we have sound here and in the music. But if you do this at home, it'll sound better because of the sound here. And again, it doesn't have to be perfect, everybody. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just--
Audience: [inaudible]
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Did you guys move your-- are you guys exploring the features of your YouTube Shorts?
Audience: You didn't tell us to do the retouch to look younger.
Chris Vela Che: The retouch, the music. Make sure you click on the speaker to adjust the volume of the music. You want your students to hear your voice, not so much the music.
[side conversation]
Audience: Oh, sorry.
Audience: No, no, no, that's OK. You're fine. This is practice anyway.
Chris Vela Che: Again, remember, it's going to be-- once you explore and create something that is not perfect, again, you're going to have the last part when you're ready to upload. You can make that video private. You can make it private. You're not going to put it out there.
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Yes, correct. So again, don't worry-- again, the music, make sure you adjust the volume. Otherwise, your students are going to just listen to Miley Cyrus instead of your voice.
[laughter]
I think--
Audience: How do you adjust your volume?
Chris Vela Che: The volume should be on-- there is a little bar, and there is a speaker. You see the speaker? You're going to click on the speaker, and then--
Audience: I don't see it. So here's the music. I haven't put it in yet because if I put it in [inaudible]?
Chris Vela Che: Yeah.
Audience: And then--
Chris Vela Che: Then click.
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: And then--
Audience: Don't do that because [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: But I think you already--
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Now, I'm going to go to voiceover. [inaudible]. Oh, my goodness, this is not--
Audience: Oh, here we go. [inaudible]. Drag it [inaudible]. Drag where?
Chris Vela Che: No, they're not going to drag this. This is just the-- oh, I think I-- where is your volume because this is the volume from your cell phone?
Audience: Right here.
Audience: Oh, this is my volume here. That would be a good thing to know. [inaudible] right there [inaudible]. I think [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: That's OK.
Audience: Now, [inaudible]. That's the camera.
Chris Vela Che: Where is the YouTube again?
Audience: It'd be nice if you could drag it down, right?
Audience: Yeah, come right up now.
Chris Vela Che: There.
Audience: OK.
[music playing]
Chris Vela Che: I can always go--
[music playing]
Audience: But you can't fix it once it's done.
Chris Vela Che: No, it's--
[music playing]
Audience: Oh, you drag that down there.
Chris Vela Che: Hmm, this phone, it won't allow you to voiceover. The best thing to do is, when you have a video, music that doesn't have voiceover. Otherwise--
Audience: Right, but it already had what it had. But see? It's says here. Just drag to adjust sound.
Chris Vela Che: But the sound of the music that will be on your video, but not the vol--
Audience: Shouldn't it go down? Says drag to adjust sound.
Chris Vela Che: Mm-hmm.
Audience: Oh, it's just to drag-- so I could drag it like this?
Chris Vela Che: Mm-hmm.
Audience: And just have a little bit of music [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Yeah. Let's see. But it doesn't--
Audience: We don't have too much time [inaudible]. Hers had a volume adjuster.
Chris Vela Che: There we go. It's OK.
Audience: Oh, here it is.
Chris Vela Che: You know what? Just for the fun, let's upload that one uh, Susan. There is some problems with putting the-- well, adjusting the volume. Does anybody have the problem with adjusting the volume? I heard a lot music.
Audience: Yeah.
Chris Vela Che: But yes, but her option was that she had a speaker there.
Audience: What kind of phone do you have?
Chris Vela Che:
Audience: It's said drag to adjust.
Chris Vela Che: Yes.
Audience: I think it's an Android problem.
Audience: Maybe here?
Audience: You have an iPhone.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, I have a iPhone.
Audience: I bet it's an Android problem. Who has an Android?
Audience: Me.
Audience: I do.
Audience: OK.
Audience: Turn that down, so I started putting what I wrote on here.
[laughter]
Or what I said.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah.
Audience: So it's an Android problem.
Chris Vela Che: Now, Adriana, right?
Audience: Yes.
Chris Vela Che: Adriana, what about the music? Did you get the music?
Audience: The thing is [inaudible]. I recorded it.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, [inaudible] show it. What does it mean?
Audience: It's funny. It says [inaudible].
Audience: You don't' know where to drag.
Audience: That's OK.
[side conversation]
Chris Vela Che: Yes, awesome.
Audience: Chris?
Chris Vela Che: Yeah.
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Is this an Android?
[interposing voices]
Chris Vela Che: [inaudible]. We're having problems with Androids not coming with the symbol with the speaker.
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: So what do you mean?
Audience: You can't [inaudible]?
Chris Vela Che: No, no, this is [inaudible] one before [inaudible], right?
Audience: Then the background sound, right?
Audience: It's interesting because it says drag, but when we try and drag.
Chris Vela Che: Like the segment of the music you want.
Audience: Oh.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, do you think the [inaudible] underneath [inaudible]?
Chris Vela Che: It should come up. But it looks like iPhones have the speaker. But for some reason Samsungs do not have that. I'm just-- OK, let's see.
Audience: Let's you select--
Chris Vela Che: Let's see. Adjust--
Audience: I didn't press-- because I didn't press at the same time [inaudible] recording or [inaudible] saved here or not. So she recorded that piece. Here's the song. What if we remove it and then pick a different [inaudible]? [inaudible] everything [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Now, you guys, your voice was very--
Audience: Loud?
Chris Vela Che: No, you're--
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Well, the point here is with music, but a little bit, not a lot.
Audience: Let's see.
[music playing]
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: So you select that.
Audience: Now, we're going to make a new one.
Audience: So you have to record-- well, actually--
Audience: This section, you know what I mean?
Chris Vela Che: No. Select that, and the click that.
Audience: Oh.
Chris Vela Che: [inaudible]
[interposing voices]
Audience: Ah, OK. So here at the bottom [inaudible].
Audience: It's almost [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Now, you see the voiceover?
Audience: Oh, there.
Chris Vela Che: So I found the volume, and [inaudible]
[interposing voices]
Chris Vela Che: See? I think we figured it out, everybody. I think Samsungs [inaudible].
[interposing voices]
Audience: Doesn't show up on mine.
[interposing voices]
Chris Vela Che: How did you adjust the volume?
[interposing voices]
Audience: Everybody here has an iPhone except us two.
[interposing voices]
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Well, I've noticed that now that you guys, well, you have Androids, it doesn't give you the option to adjust your voice [inaudible]. I'm going to have-- I'm sorry. I didn't think that was going to be an issue.
Audience: Exploration of the learning.
Chris Vela Che: I know. So all right, so Androids do not have the-- yes, well, the volume icon where you can adjust your voice and the background music.
Audience: Yeah.
Chris Vela Che: I don't know if you guys are experiencing the same thing, but I did not anticipate that.
Audience: Maybe--
Audience: Well, three of us have Androids.
Audience: Maybe that could be still uploaded, and maybe then on the computer you can adjust, right, once you upload it?
Chris Vela Che: Unless you speak very loud and you pick background music, like the music that I picked, it was just like (SINGING) la. Nobody was singing. So maybe a best practice when you're making YouTube Shorts is to pick music that is just, what is that?
Audience: Instrumental.
Chris Vela Che: Instrumental music, something that is not going to have more voices there, especially if you have an Android, which yeah, if you have an iPhone, you should be able to see an icon in the speaker volume. And you will be able to adjust your voice and the background music.
So try to do this. And again, it doesn't have to be perfect. Dang it. I'm sorry. [inaudible], were you able to adjust the volume? Or you have an Android.
Audience: No, [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Yes.
Audience: Yeah, it brings up both.
Chris Vela Che: Yeah.
Audience: It's the Android version. That's not fair.
Chris Vela Che: Sorry, Android users. So if you guys are able to-- can you guys share whatever you have on Padlet? Whatever you have, if you have your video? I want you to share your video with me by scanning the QR code.
Audience: I'm not sharing mine.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: That's OK. I'm sorry, Susan. [inaudible], no, I'm kidding [inaudible]. And again, Susan, you can make it at home. There is no noise. You can speak nice there. And then pick, like I said, an instrumental type music.
Audience: I forgot to go back and change it from private. So if I [inaudible]--
Chris Vela Che: You can close. I don't think it's going to delete anything.
Audience: [inaudible]. So I can go back into--
Chris Vela Che: Yes, so you can change the settings. So over here, so you are ready. So did you upload this already?
Audience: Yes, I did.
Chris Vela Che: So do you remember if you click-- so [inaudible]. The only thing about this is that when you want to change the settings, in a computer, you can go and then change the settings to on [inaudible].
Audience: Oh, OK.
Chris Vela Che: [inaudible]. That's the only thing. So when you're doing this test and making a video, before you upload it, make sure that it says unlisted.
Audience: Unlisted.
Chris Vela Che: Unlisted, so that way it's only for your students. But again, share over here. You copy the link, and then you go [inaudible]. That's the-- yeah. I'm sorry, everybody. We're getting a little bit of error, what is that? Trial and error? Yes, so yes. So if you're able to share your YouTube Shorts, that will be nice to see some of your. It doesn't have to be perfect. [inaudible]. It's not sharing, but that's OK.
Audience: I'll watch other people share.
Chris Vela Che: That's all right. And remember, this would be a great idea if you have a bunch of YouTube Shorts and share those in a Padlet. I don't know if you guys are familiar with Padlet. Padlet is-- how do you define Padlet? As just a classroom board?
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Yes, so you can easily paste your link. When you paste the link, it'll look like this on a cell phone.
Audience: They need to verify their apps.
Chris Vela Che: On a cell phone, yeah. This can also be a great activity for students. Assuming your students are tech savvy and they have a YouTube channel, they can easily upload videos. But we need to first get a lot more practice on our end--
[laughter]
--before we attempt to teach that to students. Otherwise, it's going to happen-- like it's happening to be like, oh, my goodness. I didn't even realize Androids didn't have that option to adjust your music and voice. Anyway, so what time-- oh, my goodness. I think we have just a few more--
Audience: We still have 15 minutes.
Chris Vela Che: 15 minutes? No, I think--
Audience: No, the session [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Excellent, so again, please play with it. We were trying to create YouTube Shorts right now. Of course, it's noisy. But at home, tomorrow, whenever, just make a video. Hi, my name is blah, blah, blah. And try to follow the steps. Again, remember, the steps you have it in the handout. What I'm going to show you now is, once you create your YouTube Short, you can easily share them in your Canvas, your elements, whether it's Canvas or Google Classrooms.
Just share the link, and you'll see from your YouTube Shorts there is a symbol, like an arrow like that, that link can be in your Canvas. You can just easily paste that. This is a video of my Canvas course from a phone. So I have here my home-- well, this is the important information here. So I have here my YouTube Shorts. So it looks just nice in a vertical way so students can just click there and learn a little bit about me.
But anyway, so that's how you would be able to share that in Canvas as a nice little welcome to your class. Now, Pronto, how many of what know what Pronto is? Pronto is-- yeah, what is Pr--
[laughter]
It is a building, texting tool within Canvas.
Audience: Oh, really?
Chris Vela Che: Yes.
Audience: I don't think we have that on my Canvas.
Chris Vela Che: Yes, it is the equivalence of what? What is the other company? WhatsApp? Are you familiar with WhatsApp?
Audience: We should be in the [inaudible].
Chris Vela Che: Think about WhatsApp. Think about Pronto.
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Yeah.
Audience: But it's from Afghanistan. So I don't know.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: They don't know if they have it. So anyway, Pronto is just a building a tool within Canvas, and you can text students. You can have video calls or video phone calls and share a lot of things, including your YouTube Shorts. So I did share mine using Pronto, a little bit of text, and my link. That was it. So Canvas and Pronto, excellent ways to share your YouTube Shorts.
Now, another way that I-- another space where I share my YouTube Shorts are emails. You can use a hyperlink and just use your-- well, type whatever [inaudible], well, the video, right? So for example, here I have click to read my-- or watch my video. Click to watch my video, and I link that to my YouTube Short. So then when students open their emails, they can click here. And they'll be able to watch my YouTube Short.
Now, the only problem is that, once the students open their emails, this link will take them to a different site. So that's the only thing about emails. But there is no way we can embed a YouTube Short yet into an email. It's just a hyperlink just like that. So also a good way to get students connected to you through video.
This is a good activity that I did with my class. I use my YouTube Short. I add the QR code here. Students use their-- I print out this, and then students with their cell phone scan it, and they can answer some of these questions in regards to the video. So it's just, again, an activity that you can do either on Zoom or in person. Print out the handouts. Have students scan the QR code and answer some comprehension questions about either myself or any content that you want them to learn.
So any questions before we continue? I'm going to show you some examples. But any questions? Anything over here? Again, very simple to share on documents, Microsoft Word, or Google Docs. Now, how do you get a QR code for your YouTube Short? Do you guys know that?
So for example, I show you here. This is a Google Doc. So if I want to make a language activity, and when I use my YouTube Short, I will have to either put a link. But if the student is in person and you have a piece of paper, I think the smart way would be having a QR code of your YouTube Short. And then have some questions here. It's less than a minute video. They can watch it with their phones, and they can answer some questions.
Now, how do you create a QR code from your Shorts? Does anybody know? Very simple instructions. You will go to-- now, this is for laptops. You will not be able to get the QR code using your cell phones. So you will have to open your laptop. Go to YouTube.com. Log into your account, right, because you have an account now because you were making videos now.
And look for the video you want to share. And click on this symbol up at the top right. You will see an arrow. It's almost like a little arrow getting out of the box, which is to share, right? You share through a QR code and then download the QR code and paste it to your document. So that's how I got this.
So again, let me go back again. QR codes for your document, YouTube.com. Log into your account. Look for your video. And once you are on your YouTube Shorts, you will click on this arrow and get the QR code. Any questions about this one, or not? Again, you have it on your handout, so you can digest that later, tomorrow, or next week.
Anyways, another great way to use your YouTube Shorts is if you paste them in your PowerPoint presentations or your Google Slides. I have some examples of what I have been doing with my class and my YouTube Shorts. So one moment. I'm going to go to the YouTube channel here. And I'm going to show you-- [inaudible].
Audience: [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: Yeah, I think right here maybe. Yeah, so let me see. I think have again, please don't judge.
[interposing voices]
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Ah!
Audience: Yeah, that's true, right?
[side conversation]
Chris Vela Che: One second here, everybody.
Audience: Maybe with the iPad it would work.
Chris Vela Che: Maybe.
Audience: Maybe with your iPad.
Chris Vela Che: Use an iPad, yeah. So these are some of my YouTube Shorts here. This one is like the rain, you know? Again, I teach a beginning ESL class, and it's a Short, so it has to be something real engaging.
[video playback]
- [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: And so you can hear the music in the background.
Audience: How did you make the little you?
Chris Vela Che: Huh? Snapchat.
[laughter]
So it's raining. It's all language-based short videos that could engage students.
[end playback]
And you can post this on Pronto, Canvas discussions. And you can get your students talking about you and the video, right? What else? One second. Where do I go now? Let me go back again to-- I'm just going to go back like this. So that was one. That was one video. You saw my welcome video here. I also have this one. This one is not good. I was just trying. But I was modeling like reading out loud, and it was a paragraph. So let's see. I'll show you this.
[video playback]
- Like last night.
Chris Vela Che: There's no music.
- [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: That was just a little example.
- [inaudible]. Ecuador is--
Chris Vela Che: Anyways.
[end playback]
So this was just a Short. So I was having-- I wanted students to practice reading out loud, have to finish a paragraph about their classmates. So having them to read aloud. What does reading out loud mean? So then I showed them, oh, remember this paragraph that we worked on for this amount of weeks? So we're going to read them. Now, what is reading out loud? And then I showed them this video, Again, modeling what you want students to do in your class.
Let me go back again. Let's see. Over here, that was one. Reading out loud, The Weather. One second here. This one was in a weekend, and I think my husband cooked some--
[laughter]
What's--
[video playback]
- I am having tofu.
Chris Vela Che: Tofu.
- Broccoli and sesame seed on top for dinner.
Chris Vela Che: So imagine all the things that you can talk about your students. The colors, the vegetables.
[end playback]
And then having them engage in conversations like, hey, what are you having for dinner? So yes, this was again another way for me to engage with my students in Pronto, which is like the WhatsApp version of Canva. Let me show you one more. And again, you will have the QR code of all my examples on the handout. So you don't need to, hey, where can I find-- you will have everything. Everything is in the handout. So you will see all my examples there.
Let me show you one more over here, and then we'll go into-- one second here. This one is the one that I did using my-- I was--
[video playback]
- (YAWNING) [inaudible]
Chris Vela Che: So this is the language that is the native language in my town. So [inaudible] Weenel is Mayan for I am sleepy. And then of course, I have the Spanish, Mayan, and English. That was for a different class. You can learn many languages when you show this little GIF. [inaudible] Weenel is--
[laughter]
[end playback]
Anyway, so that is-- and as you notice, there is no music. It's just--
Audience: You're contagious.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: What was that?
Audience: You're contagious. I'm yawning now too.
[laughter]
Chris Vela Che: Yes, OK, so this is again just some examples there. Let me go back again to my main thing here. And I think we almost have a few things before-- oh, wait a second. One moment, everyone. Let's see. So yes, you will have access to all my examples. And let's move on to the next thing before we have to go. So this is again the video samples that I was showing you before.
I have a few more. You'll have access for later. And more ideas for you when you're creating YouTube Shorts, again, welcomes are excellent. Maybe five facts about me, five facts about the lesson, or something. Recap a grammar lesson, perhaps. You can make a little drawing or something and even film something from your notebook.
What else? Short dialogues, you can also make that. Likes and dislikes. Maybe when you're making your video, if you are in the kitchen, what are five things that you like or five things that you don't like? A short story, a short story, or even pronunciation. There is a way that you can focus on the mouth when you are on YouTube Shorts. So the camera is only looking-- it's only focused on the mouth. So you can perhaps create a list of a little challenging sounds, like the th sounds in a lot of English words.
So I don't have more than that. But I put other ideas in the handout. The thing about these YouTube Shorts is they're friendly, user friendly. Again, you have to be in a quiet room and plan what you're going to make. And just time, 60 seconds or less. And share it. Share anywhere, Pronto, Canvas, emails, PowerPoint, many, many platforms. So ladies and gentlemen, I think I am done with all of this. You have all the instructions, everybody.
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Thank you very much.