Videosharing+Handout

Using Video Web Sites in the Classroom ** Sample Project **

Downloading a video from YouTube.
** Overview ** Outside of news sites, most sites that contain video are blogs or video-hosting sites like YouTube. In both cases, these kinds of sites tend to be blocked by our school filters. One video site that is not blocked at my school is Teacher Tube [|http://www.teachertube.com/. All in all, there are many reasons why most video sites tend to be blocked, but probably the two main reasons are potential access to objectionable content, and/or strain on the school network. But to ignore what is blocked means that you miss the great video content online! Really, there is a treasure trove of great videos that can be used in instruction and – best of all – the videos these sites contain are short! Downloading them to your computer can make these videos even more useful because the videos tend to run faster and more smoothly than streaming them directly from a web site. So, what do you do if you can’t stream the video directly to your class at school? You have to somehow save the video to your home computer and then transfer the video to a flash drive and then load it onto your school computer. However, because you are an LMS, you are also concerned about copyright, right? In March 2008, technology consultant, Jamie McKenzie, who is also editor of the tech web-zine FNO.org, wrote about YouTube and using its videos in the classroom in his article [|Breaking the YouTube Blockade] ([|http://fno.org/mar08/youtube.html)] In short, McKenzie concluded that if you want to download a video, you should trace the video back to its original site, then ask for permission to use the video before downloading it to your computer. Good advice! However, this handout is just going to cover the process of downloading the video to your computer. ** Sample information ** We’re all going to download the same video for our sample. So, just follow the directions below. = Directions = Method A Method B  There is another way to also save a video that is enumerated in Jamie McKenzie’s article. This method will work if you are trying to download a video from a site that is not YouTube. Find this video: **Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 Cognitive Surplus** Once you have found the video, you may go to [|http://zamzar.com] -- and skip steps 1 & 2. Start at step 3. 1. Identify the video at [|http://youtube.com] 2. Find the original source Web site for the video (as with Dove above). 3. Copy the URL for the video from its original source (not YouTube). 4. Go to [|http://zamzar.com] 5. Select the blue hyperlink for ** URL ** in Step One. 6. The page will change so that a new entry box will appear with "http://" in it where the URL from the video's source should be pasted. 7. Move through the next steps, selecting a file format that will work with the video software installed on your computer. 8. Enter your email address as instructed. Zamzar will email instructions to you for returning to the site for the actual file downloading. Sometimes this message may take several hours to arrive in your email Inbox. Once the email arrives, you have just 24 hours to download the file before they delete it. After downloading the file, you may bring it to school and decide upon the best way to share it with students ** Product Information **
 * 1) Do a search in YouTube for the video **“The machine is using us.”**
 * 2) When you find the video **“The machine is using us,”** look to the right of the video window that contains information about the specific video. Click in the box that says URL and highlight and COPY the URL (web address) for the video you want.
 * 3) Then go up to the top of the window, click on FILE and slide down to NEW WINDOW in Internet Explorer, or Firefox, or Safari (whichever Internet browser you choose to use) and type in the address of the website: [|http://www.keepvid.com]
 * 4) On the **keepvid** site, RIGHT CLICK in the lime green box and PASTE the web address that you copied from YouTube.
 * 5) Then click DOWNLOAD.
 * 6) Seconds later, a gray bar with the word “download” will appear on your screen. Below the gray bar, click on the words “DOWNLOAD LINK.”
 * 7) A dialogue box will pop up on your screen - click SAVE.
 * 8) Then //another// dialogue box will pop up on your screen asking you where to save. Make sure next to SAVE IN it says DESKTOP. Then check at the bottom of the window the name of the file. Next to the file name “get_video” TYPE the following: **.flv** (type it exactly like that. Don’t forget the dot). Then click SAVE.
 * 9) Then go to **Google** and search for **free FLV player riva cnet**. Click on the first link from download.com. Click on DOWNLOAD NOW. Then click SAVE. Then a dialogue box will pop up asking where you want to save. SAVE the player to your DESKTOP.
 * 10) CLOSE all of the Internet Explorer windows so you can see your Desktop.
 * 11) (Now, pay attention). Click on your Desktop for the Riva FLV Player Setup. Click RUN. Click OKAY (for English). Click NEXT. Click “I accept the agreement,” then click NEXT. Click NEXT. Click NEXT. Click NEXT, then click INSTALL, then click FINISH. (Thankfully, you only have to download the player one time).
 * 12) Then go back to your Desktop and click on the **get_video** file. Like magic, it should play right there on your desktop. Watch the video, it is only 4 and a half minutes long.
 * 13) Open up Internet Explorer again, and search for the video “**Eric Schmidt web 2.0 web 3.0**”. WATCH the video. It is less than 2 minutes long.

Benefits
You can download videos from YouTube or other video sites and bring them to school where you can show the videos to your classes from your computer. Once you have downloaded the videos, you can use them any time and you do not have to deal with streaming and buffering speeds or a blocked web site. FREE – but possibly need permission. ** Similar Products ** There are other “helper” applications out there that you can use to capture video. I just name **keepvid, riva flv player**, and **zamzar** here. As you know, you have to be careful with some of the free applications out there. Make sure that they do not contain the “bonus” of spyware! However, I have personally used, more than once, each of the tools listed above!
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