Internet Videos and the Classroom

Internet Videos in the Classroom Download it, convert it, then upload it to teachertube or copy it to a flash drive to take it to school the next day.

Why use Internet videos? . Connect with digital students . Help students at home . They are free . The world is a great resource . To train students to be discerning . Give students additional resources

Why are some of the portals not available to us? . Too many inappropriate videos . Security risk for our network . Temptation for abuse . Not all information is valuable or verifiable  Using Video Search Engines  Downloading videos  Using Video Converters  Other Applications related to videos  Saving them to Teachertube.com . Setting up an account . Uploading a video

Updated February 22, 2010 2 Updated February 22, 2010 3 Using YouTube Videos at School Our school districts policy prevents you from accessing YouTube at school, but you can download educational videos from the website at home and show them the next day. Here’s the short version how:  At home, go to www.youtube.com and locate the video that you want.  Copy the URL of that particular video.  Go to www.keepvid.com. In the blank, paste the URL of the YouTube video that you want.  Click the Download button at the end of the URL bar.  A choice of formats will appear. Right-click on the one you want and select Save As. Give the video a name that you’ll recognize and save it to your Desktop. Highlight and copy the URL for the video you want.

Paste the URL here and

click Download

SelectPaste thethe URLfile typehere youand want to download. Your click Download computer should be able to play a wmv, flv, or m4v file. Any other files will need to be converted.

Updated February 22, 2010 4 Once the video is downloaded, copy it to a flash drive to take to school the next day.

Download a video converter from http://www.keepvid.com

If you do not have a Video converter, click Free download

Click Download.

Click Run.

Updated February 22, 2010 5 Select language and click OK.

Click Next

Click I accept

Click Next

Updated February 22, 2010 6 Click Next

Click Next

Click Install.

Updated February 22, 2010 7 Click Finish.

You have now completed downloading a file converter. So let’s go back to YouTube:

http://Youtube.com

Highlight and copy the URL for the video you want.

Paste the URL here and

click Download

Updated February 22, 2010 8 Paste the URL here and

click Download

Select the file type you want to download.

If you need to convert to another file type so that you can play it at school click on the Icon for the Converted you downloaded. Click on Browse and find the video file you want to convert.

Click on Browse and find the location where you want to save the converted file.

Change the file name if desired and Click on Convert Now.

Updated February 22, 2010 9 Online Video Converters: http://onlinevideo

Processing can take a few minutes.

Click Download.

Updated February 22, 2010 10 Converting Using Zamzar

Convert Files

Download Files

Updated February 22, 2010 11 Sign up Within one hour you will receive the downloaded file as an email attachment. Uploading Content to TeacherTube

Upload

Updated February 22, 2010 12