At home you have found some great YouTube videos produced by other classes that directly address your chosen standard. At school the next day, you go to open the YouTube video and you find that YouTube is blocked by your school’s filtering system. You were not planning on showing the videos for a few days but you are still upset. You complain to another teacher. James tells you how to overcome the block.
The steps are simple:
Find the YouTube video that you want.
Copy the YouTube url
Paste the url into a conversion site such as TechCrunch. This is will convert it to flv format. Remember where you save it.
You may want to rename the file with a name to describe the actual video instead of the random letters that YouTube assigns it. I would not know what the file name v=tP34F8XSXe4 means but I would understand USCivilWar
(You can add a YouTube downloader as an extension to Firefox.)
Download a flv player from a sites such as Applian.
Install the player, open it, and open your chosen YouTube video. Enjoy.
Once you have a way to convert the YouTube movies to flv and to play them with a Flv player, you can show your students standard-based YouTube videos.
If you know of any non-commerical other easy ways of converting YouTube to flv, let me know.
© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007
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I teach in a public school in Boston and YouTube is blocked. YouTube may have a lot of stuff on it we wouldn’t want our kids watching, but it also has A LOT of educational videos. I have downloaded videos from YouTube to bring to school, videos that teach my kids in 3 minutes what it would take me a few days to teach on the boring white board. And this says nothing of how it helped me get through graduate school Java Programming and Calculus!!
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