Download YouTube Videos for Use at School
February 16th, 2007
As most students and teachers know, school servers block YouTube. Don’t despair. There is a way to bring good educational videos from YouTube into your classroom. You can download a video at home, carry it on a flash drive (or store it on a virtual disk) and then bring it to school.
Anne Bubnic, CTAP Region IV County Specialist, shared this link on how to download YouTube videos. She recommends following the directions exactly. Be sure to use the Firefox browser. One of her colleagues tried it in Safari and couldn’t get it to work. You will also need to download the VLC application for it to work.
If you haven’t heard of Metacafe, you’ll want to read this post about an alternative to YouTube. One fabulous benefit of Metacafe is it isn’t blocked at school. You may want to check if the video you are interested in is uploaded there too.
Entry Filed under: Education, Technology, Information and Media Literacy, YouTube
3 Comments Add your own
1. Rob De Lorenzo | February 26th, 2007 at 9:21 am
When using Firefox, another way to download You Tube, or any embedded video for that matter, is to use an add-on called Download Helper. Easy to use, works right in the browser, and a little icon beside the address bar will inform the user if there is video on the web page.
2. zombie | June 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Great post! and thanks for the info Rob, this sounds very useful.
3. youtube | July 20th, 2008 at 6:47 am
hello
I personally take http://www.flashvideodownloader.org/ for download youtube video
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