During this time of lockdown, how are you connecting with the grandparents every single day? Now I can imagine that it's too much to do a Zoom call every single day. So there's got to be an easier way to connect with the grandparents and that's what I'm gonna talk about today is a way of connecting asynchronously through unlisted YouTube videos and I'll show you some tips about protecting the privacy of your kids and ways of showing and showcasing their creativity. We are here to transform screen time from sedation to relation making sure that we show their interests and ultimately to creation creating something new and creation and relation doesn't really work unless you have an audience, right? So if you're just submitting this straight into the Google classroom Forget it because there's no audience really like you don't even know if somebody's going to respond, right? And your peers won't see it. So this is really really important if there isn't an audience It is good for the kids, but it is also really good for the grandparents as well because they really do want to connect They want to know what is the creative output of the grandkids and they don't have that opportunity They may be more high risk. How do we keep everyone safe? And that leads to my new Decal and my new message for today Is that this is the Uncle Ben Quote kind of reverted a little bit with great responsibility Comes great power. So we're gonna take extreme responsibility in order to solve this problem and that's what's going to give us power back as parents during this time Okay, so let's dive straight into it So the first step that I would like you to do is Look at your light Everybody thinks that oh, okay, well maybe You know, I just need a really fancy camera. I said no, you do not need a fancy camera Forget fancy cameras all of my video recordings start with this guy just a iPhone 6s You know, what is this like five six years old is it not a fancy phone at all? You do not need a fancy thing. You don't need anything fancy Okay, so the simpler the better so I want the light facing me and so that's gonna give me the brightest image So you can see now I'm gonna be able to see myself clearly that's gonna look a lot better You know, so make sure you use light to your advantage You have three different privacy modes in YouTube The first the the most extreme privacy level is called but private which is only the creator's account can see it You probably don't want that one because then nobody will be able to watch your video Then the next one about that is called unlisted unlisted is Everyone who has the link so this URL can see it But you can't search for it and find that video and and that is the one that I would recommend and then the the top one The one is that is most like encouraged. I guess say by YouTube is Public and so public means everyone can search for it everyone can look for it and certainly for kids videos I wouldn't I wouldn't advise that now are there other platforms are there other ways to make it safer Potentially but again, this is about simplicity and how do we keep people safe or how do we keep our kids safe? The question is well, what are you recording? Are you recording their faces? Maybe you don't need to right if the only thing we need to record is their creative output Then just record their creative output and so if somebody goes and sees the video They only see the creative output of your kids Right, like there's so many YouTube channels out there today That are just the person's creative output like locksmith lawyer. Do you know what his face looks like? No? You don't right because he only focuses on his creative output And I feel that there's too much emphasis on oh they have to be a brand and you know They like they have to become a celebrity This is not the purpose of this we're trying to connect with family with the grandparents But we are also trying to create a audience for their creative work And so let's dive into how this can be done, okay? So Let's go into the device So iPad is what my kid uses for school anyways, so I just open up the camera app and I flip the camera to the other side And so once I flip the camera to the other side This is literally the recording that I will do with him So I'll just sit here. I'll set it to video. Oops Let me do that switch to video And so it's the red one and then I will show maybe like zoomed up like that and then all he will do is just read Read through his assignment. I'll record that You know record that as a video Okay, and then once you've done that you'll have the video It'll be in your camera roll can launch YouTube and yes, I have screen time limits set up on my iPad and they've already exceeded it for today Welcome to my world Nor limit for today. Okay, I guess that's what I have to do So for this channel, I'm going to upload a video And in it, I might have something like this right so this is like just his recording And then in this video he's reading it out Right, so he's already written a bunch of stuff and and that's my name not my kids name And I wrote down like he is good at drawing pictures and so it like shows the grandparents a little bit about him And then when I go down I have different options So you can see here I can move from public like I said unlisted or private or scheduled And so what you want to do is you want to choose unlisted once you've got it unlisted You can add a title gifts and personality and what I will do Afterwards is then I just hit the upload button. I can add a description to I can say like he he did something about Gifts and personality, but you don't have to and so if I hit upload if you don't care about comments You could just say yes, it is made for kids and then comments will be disabled And so this is like the gifts in personality video you can see It's uploaded here and then it's already it's kind of ready to go and so if I want to share it I can just click on share and then here I can go down to copy link And so once I've got the link copied usually what I do is I just send that straight into the messages I press enter you see like oh okay, you know here's the here's the image of gifts and personality And then like usually there's some kind of comment about What they found worked and and so like there's some feedback that that feedback loop the most important part It's just having an audience these days A lot of they because a lot of the assignments are done in isolation It is very important to have some kind of audience for creative work creativity Thrives in a community, but it really ties If you are doing it on your own and you never have any feedback from anybody else So as much as possible share it with as many family members as possible Maybe there are several people in the family who really love to see this kind of stuff Send it to them. It doesn't take any extra time And the nice thing about doing it this way where it's uploaded and it's on YouTube as an unlisted video Is they can watch it any time whenever it's convenient like maybe they're too busy today They can watch it tomorrow the next day like a week later But you you end up with this constant feed of content that is available for the grandparents and it makes them feel even though They're not seeing it directly at exactly at the same time It makes them feel connected But it also as a like a child when you get that feedback it makes like the It really facilitates that feeling of connection without the commitment of you've got to meet Live during a zoom call every single day at a specific time That is too much for most parents today. It's too much for most kids. And so I'd encourage you we Live in a amazing World of technology these days. There's a lot that can be done. We can reverse And we can change and we can use technology for creation Go and make that video and then share it with them and if you did just like tell us what was the reaction? Where they were they happy to see it You know this is a way of saying that we really care Without going out and sharing this with the whole world on Facebook On Twitter or on Instagram like there are different ways of sharing And this is the way that has worked really well for our family a balance between privacy And the connectedness the relationship and so If this video was interesting to you just leave a comment below saying yep interesting Keep making stuff like this that gives me a lot of feedback and Connect with you and say hey, if we have some future live streams and you want to ask some questions like you're certainly welcome to Where we want this to be a conversation and not just me saying a bunch of stuff So I hope this was useful for you if it was let me know in the comments Thank you, and I'll see you in the next one. See you. Bye