After you have connected with your students via a Personal Message from your new YouTube Channel, and you have created and shared one or more video lessons, you may want to organize your channel with YouTube Playlists and Sections on your Channel's Homepage. Not only can you organize your own videos into curated playlists, but you can also add sections of playlists from other channels, too. Check out this new tutorial for curating the content on your Channel:

Many teachers connected with their students this week with personal messages, live zoom sessions, email, classroom and brand-new google sites. Now, it will be fun to create and share weekly lessons, provocations, pitches and projects to students from the channels we have created. And making new video lessons from content we already have is actually pretty easy. This new tutorial video shows you how to take your presentation slides from any software, whether PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, a folder of images, or even a website, and turn them into a narrated video that can be shared on your RVS YouTube Channel. Check it out:

If you haven't started your RVS YouTube Channel with a personal welcome message for your students, fear not! You can check out last week's tutorial video How To Launch Your Channel with a Personal Message to get started.
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Shifting to online learning with your students means video chats on Zoom or Google Meet. It's easy to make yourself presentable on camera with a couple of simple tips for setting up your video.

First, you've gotta face it, the window is a lamp, not a backdrop. Turn your chair or desk around so the natural light pours in on you, rather than casting you into a silhouette.

Next, level with your camera.

Steady your device (camera, tablet, laptop, phone) on your table or desk, so that it is pointing at your eye level, even if you have to stack some books under it. ​So, you should be able to look your camera in the eye, and whoever is video chatting with you will feel like they are, too.

You can step up your game even more by composing your frame like a photographer would. So, whether you're meeting with colleague, students, family or friends, you can Zoom in with confidence. These brief lessons review how to create inspiring images and pro videos: