Dear all, I’m new to this forum category so apologies if this is not the right place. I was just wondering if people have experience using YouTube as an educational resource based on their iNat work. In my day job I am a university professor (art history), so I’m used to the institution restricting…

Several iNatters have YouTube videos! We also share links to relevant videos on the forum I think it would be awesome to have a channel or two that we could all post, making it easier to share short vids and find others I am confident many teachers use YouTube!

It would be great if these videos could all be linked somewhere – I’m not trying to promote my own work, just find others’ – and thanks!

[image] ryanwhyte: It would be great if these videos could all be linked somewhere if you’re looking for something specific, you can describe exactly what you’re looking for, and folks might be able to help point you to that sort of thing. otherwise, what you’re describing is so broad that i…

We have published papers in a Wiki (in 4 parts) https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/published-papers-that-use-inaturalist-data-wiki-4-2024-2025/47837 You could make one for YouTube and iNat

that’s a brilliant idea, thank you!!

This is really helpful, thanks greatly. It’s not so much subject matter as how people are using the different platforms that interests me – exactly your thoughts in the last two paragraphs. Much appreciated.

I used YouTube to post class material when we suddenly had to teach online during the pandemic. I also used it to post semi-regular phenology walks checking what plants were blooming for our local native plant society chapter. I enjoyed creating those videos but it took a lot of time. Over the last …

Yes this is a problem. I’m looking at Internet Archive for hosting my educational materials (all CC/open source) for exactly this reason. You have to get it out of the hand of the tech bros and the finance people. I was just reading what happened to Udemy, so depressing

Yes, I’m the lead on a National Geographic funded project called MacroBlitz which inspires and empowers people to add aquatic macroinvertebrates photos to iNat. We have a whole YouTube channel with all of our training videos, including about how to upload to iNat though these will need a refresh wit…

that’s fantastic, thank you!!

Youtube as educational resource

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asteroidowl December 21, 2025, 4:48pm 15

Is Flickr also an option? Not open source, but just a thought.

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