Youtube in Your Classroom

YouTube in Your Classroom By Philip Cosper

Even though YouTube is blocked by school servers, teachers can still use the vast amount of free current videos often found on YouTube. You will actually be surprised at the number of educational video segments are on YouTube. Make sure you watch the videos all the way through!

Steps:

1. Download YouTube Converter on your home computer. Just google YouTube converter and it should be the first search item. 2. Or simply go here: http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ 3. Save it to your computer and install it. 4. Go to YouTube.com 5. Search any educational topic and browse through the many results. 6. Once you found the video you wish to download, look to the right of the video. 7. You will copy the URL tag to the right of the video. (Right click and copy) 8. Minimize the window, do not close it entirely. 9. Open YouTube downloader. 10. Paste the URL into the section labeled “Enter video URL” 11. Make sure the green dot is on Download video from YouTube 12. Press Ok 13. Once you press Ok, it will ask you where to save it. On my desktop, I have created a file labeled YouTube videos. I would save it here. Note: You will have to relocate this downloaded file to convert to a usable format. 14. Once downloaded, go back to YouTube video downloader. 15. Select the button for “Convert Video (previously downloaded) from file. 16. Find the file you downloaded, right click and copy. 17. Copy this into the section labeled “Select Video File” 18. Look at Convert to, click the arrow and select Windows Media Video 19. Click ok and it will ask you where to save it, save it in the same place as you did before. 20. You may now delete the first file you downloaded from YouTube, the newly converted YouTube video that is now Windows Media Video is the video that you can put on a jumpdrive and bring to school. Note: 1 minute of video usually takes up 1 MB of space. So a 6 min YouTube video will most likely take between 6 and 7 MBs of space.