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YouTube to Edublogs.tv

UPDATE: This approach no longer works. Sigh. Why not, Edublogs.tv ? In the meantime, I encourage you to use Keepvid.com or Zamzar.com to get your videos.

YouTube is blocked at my school facility (for good reason,) but I’ve excess at home. A colleague has discovered a jewel. It’s an inspirational short by Will Smith. Now, for my surely, simple question…How do we circumvent the filters allowing us to show/use this YouTube treasure for a beginning of the year motivation lesson with our students? By the by, the YouTube instructional clips on how to do this haven’t helped.

Several ways to accomplish this.

The first way is to find a conversion service that hasn’t been blocked at work. You can find my list of services to use here. One of my favorites is the Zamzar conversion by URL. You just paste the address in and it makes the conversion for you, then emails you the download link when ready.

The second way is to find a video hosting provider that isn’t blocked, such as Edublogs.tv. Since edublogs.tv handles video/audio for just education use, it’s easy to make the argument to school district providers that it should be left unblocked. Too bad they don’t handle photos/images at Edublogs.tv, and that would take care of Flickr/Picasa blocked sites!!

Ok, here’s a few quick illustrated steps to get a video from YouTube to Edublogs.tv. I hadn’t done it before, so I figured I’d take some screenshots along the way:

Step 1: Click the Grab YouTube button

Step 2: Paste in the URL for the YouTube video

Step 3: Confirm Information

Step 4: Confirmation Provided

Step 5: See Video

Step 6: What Success Looks Like

and you can use the embed code or just link to the video:

http://www.edublogs.tv/play.php?vid=367

Note that I’ve deleted the video already, so clicking the link won’t work .

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2 comments

  1. Why not just download the flv video and play it back directly on your computer. Real Media free basic video player allows download and playback of most youtube videos as well as numerous other free tools like the free ASK video toolbar. The free video codec package for Windows Vista Codecs (works fine on XP as well) allows direct playback without any conversion. Once installed Media player or most other windows media players will display flash video with no conversion required.

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  2. Why not just download the flv video and play it back directly on your computer. Real Media free basic video player allows download and playback of most youtube videos as well as numerous other free tools like the free ASK video toolbar. The free video codec package for Windows Vista Codecs (works fine on XP as well) allows direct playback without any conversion. Once installed Media player or most other windows media players will display flash video with no conversion required.

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