OK, we all have had the frustration of finding a cool video on YouTube, or Google video, and realized, "Well, heck, what's the point, I can't show it at school anyway." :-( There *is* a workaround that has worked fairly successfully for me, and it's fairly quick and painless.
It's called YouTube Downloader.
It's fairly easy to use, too.
Step 1: Download the software to your computer (the site I linked to should be safe)
Step 2: Run the setup program.
Step 3: Run the program.
OK.. those should have been fairly obvious.
When you run the program, you get a box with 2 windows in it. Once you have found the video you want, copy and paste the URL into the top window and choose SAVE. This will download the YouTube video to your computer (make sure you remember where you saved it). Unfortunately, it's in a format we can't use at school (.flv for the geeks), so there is a second step. Click on the ...folder icon to find the video you just downloaded (picture upcoming, when I'm at home). Then choose CONVERT. It will ask you what format you want to save as, and I've found that .wmv works the best. Zap that file onto a flash drive, and you are good to show your video clips on a school computer.
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Thanks for the directions Scott. Here is a bit more about this for those interested. Last fall several people requested instructions on how to view videos (like those on YouTube) at school. So I emailed several people details on the use of a website called KeepVid. There are several others, like PWNYouTube for example, but I've had the most success with KeepVid. I gave the directions to the building techs but if you don't have a copy and want them, I added the document to ORCA, Technology/ORCA how-to tab, look in the folder called Discovery Education Streaming. The file is called "Saving videos for classroom use."
ReplyDeleteI share your frustration of finding things at home only to find they are blocked at school. There seems to be a lot of trial and error. When I use the KeepVid site mentioned by Kathy, it only allows to options for files, .flv and .mp4. I never seem to know which file type will open at school. You mention .wmv so it appears I will have to try another method. Thank you for sharing this information.
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