'THE YOUTUBE UPLOAD DILEMMA'
So you need to upload a video to YouTube for a Digital Media unit, huh? You've swallowed enough of the lecturer's 'learning by doing' mantra to log onto the platform and are now confronted with a key decision...
You can choose to publish your video as 'Private', 'Unlisted', or 'Public'.
Which do you choose??
[[Select the 'Private' option.]]
[[Select the 'Unlisted' option.]]
[[Select the 'Public' option.]]You publish your video in 'Private' mode and embed it into your blog post ready for submission. Do you...?
[[Submit your assignment and eagerly-though-patiently await your marker's feedback.]]
[[Reconsider your decision and go back to your video's upload options.]] You publish your video as 'Unlisted' and embed it into your blog post. You submit your assignment and breathe a sigh of relief, feeling reassured that your marker will be able to view your work.
But since not even someone who has subscribed to your YouTube channel can see your Unlisted upload, a niggling question is lurking in the back of your mind...
[['Do I only want one person to see my video??']]You publish your video as 'Public' and embed it into your blog post. You submit your assignment and breathe a sigh of relief, feeling reassured that your marker will be able to view your work.
You can now relax, knowing that you have the full power and agency to block or delete comments on any of your videos in the event an unappealing remark is made.
But given you don't have a large number of subscribers to your YouTube channel, a niggling question is lurking in the back of your mind...
[['Do I only want one person to see my video??']]You get an email from your marker letting you know that your video cannot be viewed. It's a polite email, but you can imagine they're probably a little annoyed at having to hunt your video down. You suffer some mild embarassment, but you still have the chance to make it right.
Following your marker's advice, you return to your video upload's settings and...
[[Change your video to 'Unlisted'.]]
[[Change your video to 'Public'.]]
[[Leave your video set to 'Private']]On second thought, you decide it would be better to...
[[Select the 'Unlisted' option.|Select the 'Unlisted' option.]]
[[Select the 'Public' option.|Select the 'Public' option.]]'Do you only want one person to see your video??'
You feel like your lecturer has explicitly or implicitly asked this question on at least twenty-three different occasions, and you've done a superb job of ignoring him so far.
But now that he's made this geeky choose-your-own-adventure story you're playing, you're forced to consider your options once again...
[[Share your video in a tweet without the unit hashtag.]]
[[Share your video in a tweet with the unit hashtag.]]
[[Don't share your video in a tweet at all. Are you cray-cray Adam?!?]]You breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that your marker will now be able to view your work.
But since not even someone who has subscribed to your YouTube channel can see your Unlisted upload, a niggling question is lurking in the back of your mind...
[['Do I only want one person to see my video??']]You breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that your marker will now be able to view your work.
You can now relax, knowing that you have the full power and agency to block or delete comments on any of your videos in the event an unappealing remark is made.
But given you don't have a large number of subscribers to your YouTube channel, a niggling question is lurking in the back of your mind...
[['Do I only want one person to see my video??']]The year is 3049. You are still waiting for your marker to assess your video.
'One day,' you ponder, as you peer out the window at the last of the transport ships leaving the polluted wasteland once known as Earth.
'One day...'
Return to [[The Choice]]A few students you are connected to notice your tweet and interact with it by clicking the 'like' button, making you realise that this 'publishing and sharing your media online' thing isn't too bad after all...
Well done.You receive a number of interactions from your peers, including a few comments that really give your confidence a boost.
This motivates you to reciprocate by interacting with some of your fellow students' tweets, enhancing your network within the unit beyond simply 'following' people and 'lurking' in the shadows of the hashtag.
You realise that you are all set to continue to build your online presence and portfolio in future weeks, months, and years to come, setting yourself up to score an awesome job.
Outstanding.You receive no extra views or feedback than that of your marker, and by the time that arrives you've completed three-and-a-half other assignments and your YouTube video is now a distant memory.
You haven't enhanced your online presence as much as you could have, but then you don't really like Twitter anyway and posting it there seems like a waste of time given you've always thought the platform is just for political ranters and people obsessed with cat memes.
Lying in bed that night, you find yourself unable to sleep. Every time you begin to drift from conscious thought, you hear a distant-but-clear voice chanting a single phrase.
You bury your head in your pillow, but you can still hear the words floating through the night air... over and over again.
'It's not the platform, it's the purpose.'
'It's not the platform, it's the purpose.'
'It's not the platform, it's the purpose.'