We use YouTube videos for Brain Breaks:
This is our current favorite, so simple and yet the kids love how it speeds up each time!
We use them to reinforce certain skills:
I'm hoping to find a video that goes to 200, but so far no luck!
We use them to expand our knowledge:
The point I'm trying to make is, I NEED YouTube! So imagine how happy I was today to learn a simple, quick FREE way to download youtube videos to my computer so I can use them without internet access!I thought I would share this, via a quick tutorial, because I know other teachers must be looking for this too :)
Step 1: Paste in the url of the video you want to save (just find it on youtube first, copy the address and then go back to savefrom.net)
Step 2: Press "Download"
Step 3: Select your format. An MP4 will play in Windows Media Player while you can drop an FLV into a Smartboard file.
Step 5: Either save to your computer or open in Windows Media Player.
This is how it looks in a Mozilla Firefox browser.
This is how it looks in Internet Explorer.
Step 6: You can add it to a playlist in Windows Media Player (maybe a Brain Break playlist? A Calendar playlist?) or just save it to your videos file or to your desktop!
I am going to be downloading videos all weekend and putting them into powerpoint presentations for each part of my day! Now I don't have to worry about whether the internet will be up, whether we will have YouTube access or whether videos will suddenly be yanked off the site!
I was so happy when they opened up you tube for our district. We had to go to a workshop before they would open it for our school and it seems like we had to sign some sort of agreement to the type of content we would show. I was using a site like the of you have demonstrated before and it was a life saver!
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Thank you for sharing this. I used to be able to download them in another application that closed. I agree, I used them all the time and HATE the commercials and when I can't get on....
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this. I used to be able to download them in another application that closed. I agree, I used them all the time and HATE the commercials and when I can't get on....
ReplyDeleteLove this! Sometimes our internet connection is so slow because of all the technology running. I'm hoping I can imbed these in a promethean flipchart. Thanks for sharing. Hope all is well. Haven't talked to you in ages.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info! Both of the sources that I used to download from have quit working. I love to use the audio from these to put on my iPods for Daily 5 listen to reading. Video books are great, but I still love for my students to have the experience of a real book in their hands.
ReplyDeleteI was so excited when i saw this post on pinterest! I tried to pull up some of my videos on youtube but no url shows up? I know it used to show this. Any ideas? Im desperately trying to get things ready before the new school year.
ReplyDelete@Christine Hi Christine! When you go to youtube and go to a video's page to start playing it, just copy the url that's in the address bar at the top of your screen. For example, when I go to youtube and type in "Learning Stations 5 Little Ducks" it shows me a bunch of choices. I double click on the first one and it brings me to the video page. In the address bar at the very top of the page it says:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECtg0w_YKk
ReplyDeleteThat's what you'll copy and use over on the savefrom.net page. Hope that helps!