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Based on Blog written by Jennifer Hillner, written on 8/31/09
I liked this article as it gives you options to use besides YouTube videos for use in your classroom and it tells you how you can save and download your YouTube videos when your school’s website is blocking access to YouTube. I think this article provide you with very valuable information on how you can download these online videos. The biggest benefit to downloading these videos is that if they are removed from YouTube, then you will always have a downloaded video to reference. If you are a K-12 teacher, YouTube does have its own group and you can always use Teacher Tube to reference for you educational videos. Copyright and fair use rules do apply, which is mentioned at the end of this blog. I think videos are a valuable asset to teaching in a traditional and online classroom. I plan to use online videos to supplement my lesson plans for future classes and I will save this website onto to my social bookmarking website. Respectable websites may be safest avenue to broadcast your videos right from the internet, but I think downloadable videos would be a great alternative, if it allows you to do so.
Hillner, J. (2009) Use Online Video in Your Classroom (Web Blog Message) Retrieved on http://www.edutopia.org/youtube-educational-videos-classroom
Chad,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that using online videos in the classroom is a great tool for teachers. Thanks for providing the link so that I can learn the steps to downloading the videos so that I can put them on my district's website. It is always a pain when you find a video from your home computer that you want to show your class, but the district has the website blocked when you try to access the video at school the next day. Another great thing about videos is that students seem to respond to them much better than some lectures. There is a time and a place to lecture, but my elementary students seem to hang in there a little better with a video and a discussion after.
Thanks for the helpful information! I was unaware of kickyoutube.com and will look forward to downloading many videos for classroom use. There is a video available on youtube on how to use kickyoutube.com that provides step by step instructions. In the past I've located just the right video for one of my classes only to have it disappear from YouTube. Downloading is a good solution, and now I know how!
ReplyDeleteKick YouTube Video: http://youtu.be/eNMwI2exBN0
Thank you for sharing that information. I also like to play videos in my classroom, but of course youtube is blocked. I have never heard of placing "kick" in front of youtube. I will have to try that next year. I have downloaded videos and saved them in the past to my usb drive. This also seems to work well.
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