YouTube
What is YouTube?
Basically, YouTube is just a 'place' where people can share videos. AikoShrek does a great job of answering this question in her video found here: 
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Wikipedia has a great history of YouTube found here: 
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Sign Up for YouTube
You will watch a video demonstration of the installation in a moment. Here are step-by-step written instructions:
- Go to www.YouTube.com and click the Sign Up button, found at the very top of the screen.
- There are several different types of accounts: Standard is fine. Videos uploaded from Standard accounts are limited to 10 minutes or 100 MB. If you shoot longer videos, choose the Director account.
- You'll get an email asking you to confirm your registration, click the "confirm your email address" link.
- A new window with YouTube will open and it will let you know your email has been confirmed.
What kind of Video does YouTube want?
YouTube will accept most popular video formats: AVI, MOV, MPG and WMV.
 written instructions to upload your video to YouTube
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Review the following video:
Sharing and Watching Your Video
When your video is on the YouTube server, you will see the URL address. You can send this address to your users or embed it in a hyperlink within your LO. You will also find the HTML code necessary to embed your video directly on a web page or blog.
Clicking on My Videos will show you all of the videos in your collection.
Your videos won't show up in search results for a little while. It takes time for YouTube to register your videos in its search engine, so be patient. If you want to edit the description or keywords to tag your videos and make them easier to find, you can do that at any time and as often as you like.
Watch the following video to learn more about revising tags and descriptions to improve search results.
