Activity 2: Influencers [4 points]
YouTube is a video sharing website, where people can watch, create, share and comment on videos (a bit like when you Learn, Create and Share at school). YouTube was created in 2005 by three men - Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim who later sold it to Google for $1.65 billion dollars!
Did you know that anyone can have their own YouTube channel? People who create videos and post them on YouTube are called ‘YouTubers’. Youtubers post videos on a huge range of topics from music to make-up, fitness to cooking, etc.
Most YouTubers create their own Youtube channel. People can subscribe to their channels and follow their videos. Do you watch or subscribe to any YouTube channels? If so, who are your favourite YouTubers? In New Zealand, there are many Youtubers, including Kiwi beauty YouTuber Miria Flavell and guitar guru, Nat Pua.
For this activity please imagine that you had the chance to create your own YouTube channel. What would it be about? What kinds of videos would you create and post?
On your blog, write a description of the YouTube channel you would like to create.
I would like to create a channel of lots of mixed things. like Gaming drawing and challenges that would be a tipe of YouTube channel I would make.
Great post Lukas but did you know YouTube is supposed to be for users over the age of 13, due to the fact that the parent company, Google, collects and markets user data.... Keep blogging, and commenting on others, to increase your chance of winning one of the awesome prizes and to keep up your learning over the school break!
ReplyDeleteOh I never knew it was.
DeleteThank you Mrs Collins for commenting on my blog.
Kind Regards
Lukas
Kia Ora Lukas,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you will have a very interesting YouTube account. I think if you have lots of different videos you could have people with lots of different interests checking out your account. What kind of things do you like to draw? I used to spend ages doodling in the margins of my books when I was at university. There are lots of flowers, weird shapes and little characters in my books now!
Blog ya later,
Dani