In this blog post, I want to share how to live stream content using YouTube. Specifically, we discuss how to use a YouTube account along with OBS Studio software to capture live video of in-class presentations and share these videos on your YouTube account. I walk you through a four step process including downloading all necessary software, purchasing any auxiliary hardware, assembling your live streaming systems, and running your first tests to get this technology working in your classrooms. I also share resources with you to help troubleshoot when issues arise.

In this article, I introduce the ways in which I use YouTube’s Live Stream tools to support student learning in my classes. My goal is to introduce some of the ways I think about live streaming, and video content creation more generally, as tools to support student learning in my classes. I do not believe that simply by using videos, my classes get better. While video content is very powerful, I have found the process of integrating this content in the classroom to be quite challenging. In this post, I address some of my attitudes toward using videos to help students learn. I hope that by starting this discussion, my readers will begin to begin develop their own attitudes and ideas about how this technology might best serve your students.