YouTube and Students

By now, we are all aware that YouTube is blocked for our students. If you've ever spent any amount of time ON YouTube, you're well aware that there is too many videos that are not appropriate for our students--either at home OR school.

However, there are also a lot of educational videos that ARE appropriate for our students. Khan Academy, a well known online tutorial uses YouTube to store his wonderful creations. We as educators can also create our own movies with our smart phones and upload to our YouTube channel (yes, all employees of our GAFE district has their own channel). Students cannot access videos on their student accounts

Is there a way to get around that?

Why yes, there is!

At the point of this blog, KeepVid is down. I suspect an update, or overloaded server. Above is a YouTube video demonstrating the ease of use for KeepVid. After you download the YouTube video, save it to your Google Drive (GAFE has unlimited storage). choose to "share with anyone who has the link", then post the link in your Google Classroom when you create an assignment.

There are a plethora of websites that offer to download movies from YouTube, Vimeo, and a slew of others. The one I used mainly was KeepVid.com. It's simple enough to use. There are others I have not tried. If you're inclined to check them out, please let us know your thoughts on them! Here's a partial list. 

Enjoy!