Great job! Nice presentation! Learned some neat tricks! Thanks!

Can you teach us how to get the videos off of YouTube? My entire county has had YouTube blocked on school grounds so I can't do anything with it that requires me to access the site at school.

For a while I had found a freeware program that allowed me to copy videos to my computer so then I could convert it so that I could put it on a usb drive. I've lost that ability now.

Love the idea of using Youtube in the classroom but have a dilema: Hawaii is the only state that has a single, state run department of education, meaning one office controls all schools on all islands. All education rules and regulations come out of Honolulu and apply state-wide. Therefore, sites like youtube are inaccessible through our DOE server due to the inappropriate material on much of youtube's site....as a result the only way for teachers to use relevant material from the site is to download at home and bring it in on a flashdrive or embedd it on a self-made document or lesson plan, which takes more time. Teachers can't use prep time to browse the site to find useful material. Any suggestions on how to get around the ban of using school computers to access the site...funything is the kids can get around the firewalls in seconds, but then put school computers at risk. What's a safe and professional way to go about it?

If anyone is inerested in checking out how one science teacher is using youtube as an extension of classtime, check out thelarge selection of science related videos i've placed on my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/noonscience

You can also see how I use youtube to have students post video projects that I can display to the class using my favorites selections.

For more information on how I incoporate technology into my classroom, view my interactive online presentation at:

http://www.sciencewithmrnoon.com/tech03.htm

Enjoy,

Brendan Noon

I have my own webste, which teaches high school Math with short videos. I use Youtube to host my Math videos, and to attract new students to the site:

http://freemathtutoring.googlepages.com

The easiest way to download a video is to install a Firefox plug in called download helper.Just google it, install it and you'll get a little icon beside an address field at the top. There will be a drop down arrow there to click and choose one of the options.

If you don't have it, download RealPlayer. http://www.real.com/ When you are able to access YouTube, find a video you want, right click on the video, then select "download to Real Player". Once you have the file on your computer, you can transfer the file to another computer (eg with a flash drive), then open it with Real Player on that computer. I have a teacher laptop from my school, so when I take it home, I download the videos I want on YouTube (for example, a 1942 newsreel of a German U-boat off the coast of Curacao, exactly what we were reading about in the novel The Cay).

you can convert YouTube videos to WMV (windows media) or even audio format using a free program called Zamzar. I convert videos then incorporate them into Moviemaker to create a mini-lesson that directives (analyze the following video...) There's also a free program called VideoGet, although I had problems using videos converted with that program into Moviemaker

you can also type the word kick in front of the word youtube in the url and convert it

If you cannot access YouTube, try using Teacher Tube, www.teachertube.com, or School Tube, www.schooltube.com. If they are blocked, your DOE may be willing to unblock them.