How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom




Our school network, like most in the UK, blocks the video-sharing site YouTube. Whilst this is understandable from an Internet safety point of view, there are many wonderful resources that educators could be missing out on.

There are many ways to download videos from YouTube, one of the easiest being to use a website such as Zamzar. The following screencast demonstrates how to do this. It is hosted at Edublogs.tv, so should remain unblocked by most school networks! :-)

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Direct link to screencast

If, for some reason, Zamzar fails to work, the following websites do the job in a similar way:

Most of these converters support more than just YouTube – so try them with other video-sharing websites! :-D

***UPDATE*** A colleague suggested that a handout might make things easier than trying to follow an online video. I’ve put one together that you can download below:

How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom (4.9MB)

 

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6 Responses to “How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom”

  1.   Doug Dickinson Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    Real Player does this job automatically

  2.   Doug Belshaw Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Thanks for the comment, Doug. There’s several reasons why I decided against recommending Realplayer:

    - It requires installation, unlike web-based solutions such as Zamzar
    - Zamzar has more options for target formats
    - Teachers can use the school network to download via Zamzar rather than their home connections (which may be metered)
    - In the past, Realplayer has known to be spyware, bloatware, and have an annoying tendency to take over your computer!

  3.   Elona Hartjes Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Doug,
    Thanks. this solves lots of problems.

  4.   Ira Pautova Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Thanks. I use VideoGet. It downloads from YouTube, GoogleVideo, MetaCafe, MySpase, Photobucket and other 600+ video websites.
    Full List of supported videos websites:
    http://nuclear-coffee.com/php/supported_services.php?id=VideoGet

    VideoGet also providing you with ability to convert each video in most popular formats for more comfortable video playback. VideoGet supports AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats, so you will be able not only to view it, but also put it into your iPod, mobile phone or any other portable device. One-click-download-convert. Plugins for Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox browser

    http://nuclear-coffee.com/VideoGet

  5.   Secondary School eSafety videos - Wolverhampton City Learning Centre (CLC) Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

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  6.   Beyond boring Powerpoint presentations. | elearnr Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 am

    [...] Add a short video clip to your presentation. Find it on YouTube, or another video-sharing site. Download and convert it (in this case to MOV or WMV format) via Zamzar.com. There’s an elearnr guide on how to do this here. [...]

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