About+Using+YouTube

=About Using YouTube=

YouTube is a wonderful resource for videos you can choose and use in your classroom. While our school system does block access to the site, you can download videos from an outside computer and put them on a disk or flash drive to play them back on a school computer. Here is how to accomplish this in 7 simple steps:

Internet Exploer Users:
1. Explore [|YouTube] and when you find a clip you would like to use, highlight the URL (as shown below). It will look something like this:



2. Right click the mouse and select "copy." This will copy the URL into your clipboard.

3. Go to the download page for the free service[| KeepVid.com]

4. Paste the URL into the empty bar and then click "DOWNLOAD." The screen will look like this:



5. The program will show you the possible file formats you can download, choose the format you would like and click on it.



6. A window will open asking if you want to Open or Save the file, click "Save."



7. Another window will open and you can now save the file on to your computer or directly on to a flash drive.



Another way to use YouTube is to embed a video in a document. To do this you simply need to go to YouTube and when you find a video you wish to use, go down the page and find the "Embed" button. After you click "Embed" a link will appear highlighted in blue in the large box and the screen will look something like this:



Now you simply have to copy and paste the highlighted link into your document and the video will become embedded in your document. It will appear on the screen with an arrow, click the arrow and your video will play.