YouTube for Schools

Now released YouTube for Schools  might make a difference to how teachers use educational video in schools. If you teach in an area where access is difficult it could help make a really valid educational point.

100 Best YouTube Videos for teachers

Again Twitter comes up (thanks @JamiePortman) with a list of videos well worth checking through … the link to the list is here.

New Book by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Tricia Neal points out to me a trailer on YouTube to a new Book by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. It is called ‘Instructions’ . The trailer is exciting enough … makes me want to get the book …

YouTube Safety Mode

Have you noticed the new safety mode button at the bottom left of the YouTube home page. This could be useful and mmake a difference to access.

SafeShare

SafeShare – allows you to share YouTube videos using a direct URL that frames the video without the advertising and other distracting features.  Simple, easy to use, straightforward … try it !!

Working with YouTube and other videos

Tom Barrett seems to have found a gem called Tooble. It quickly and easily allows you to download YouTube videos and the like and then view them on your PC or on a mobile device. If this is what you do then this may be the tool for you.

How to Download YouTube Videos

In common with my friend Simon Mills, I seem to have spent a good deal of my time over the last year or so explaining to teachers how they can download and use videos from YouTube that are blocked by their institutions. Simon points to a blog post by Tony Karrer from Los Angeles who indicates a way of collecting the videos as MP4 files. You can read his post here.