Craig's Classroom

This week on YouTube Thursdays, let's look at a very practical how-to type of post. How to Embed YouTube videos and YouTube shorts in your ActiveRain blog post. I have written posts on each of these before. But today is going to be more of a show rather than tell. You'll see the how-to video at t...

This has been an extremely hectic week and I didn't have time to put together any new lessons for video editing. However, I have a few random/rambling kinds of things to share so the week won't be a total silence 😄The first thing on the rambling list is AI and SEO - With all the prolific content ...

In this week's post of our YouTube Thursdays series, we are going to get back into video editing. The last few weeks we diverged a bit from editing so we could be inspired some from fellow members and their YouTube channels. We also took a look at YouTube channel banner artwork. You can see all p...

In this week's post, we'll talk about one aspect of setting up your YouTube channel. Be sure and read to the end of the post to learn about something that you may be doing that is hurting another person when you thought that you were helping them.Depending on your YouTube readiness level, this we...

Have you been following along in this rebooted YouTube Thursdays series? You can use that link if you want to catch up on the previous posts.We are going to take a break this week from teaching new editing skills. Have you started your homework assignments yet? You can use this week to catch up.M...

Have you been following along in this rebooted YouTube Thursdays series? You can use that link if you want to catch up on the five previous posts.I'll be demonstrating editing techniques using the CapCut video editing app. This is a free app that works on both PC and Mac. Even if you aren't using...

Have you been following along in our YouTube series? A quick recap, we have gained inspiration video creators like Charlie Dresen and Emily Berdon. We can learn from both in their quality of work and their successes. In last week's post, we looked at some essentials of video editing. First of all...

In our rebooted YouTube Thursdays series, we've had a few weeks of inspiration from other video creators. I hope you've been inspired for what potential there is for what is possible in creating video. Have you been thinking about your own YouTube channel? Creating video is NOT going to be for ev...

Have you been enjoying the reboot of our YouTube Thursdays series? If you missed the previous posts you can see post featuring Debb Janes and Charlie Dresen using those links.In this week's post we are going to head down to the Thousand Oaks, California which is just a little ways Northwest of Lo...

If you are interested in doing videos and doing them well, you need to invest a decent amount of time watching and learning from what others have done. Ask yourself what it takes to make an interesting video. If you watch a video for a few seconds and then click away, that is when you learn what ...