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| YouTube is a rich source of video clips that can be used to introduce or exemplify a topic. The materials below have been chosen because they are interesting and not necessarily for their relevance in a teaching context other than perhaps to provide that sense of awe that is so often missing in the classroom however hard we try. |
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All the video clips can be played online at home but Suffolk has blocked access to www.youtube.com so to play them at school you will need to download them.
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YouTube clips is to install the free browser
Mozilla Firefox
which can be accessed by
Clicking here.
Select Tools and then
Add-ons from the |
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Select Get
Extensions in the |
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| Whenever you play a YouTube clip or a flash file and decide you want to download it you just click on the download icon in the bottom right corner of the screen and add the extension .flv to the file name. |
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bottom right corner and then enter Fast Video Download
and press Enter.An Alternative is to use YouTube Catcher
Find the video clip you want to download on YouTube and then play it.
Copy the url address at the top which will begin with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Paste
it into the red section as shown below and then click on
download in the orange box.
This will show you the image and title of your selected video.
Then select CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD written in red see
below
You will be asked for a filename and where you want to save it.
When you give it a filename it must end with .flv. So for example MathsVideo1.flv
You have two main options:
The first option is to pay about £15 for a convertor such as the one from zizisoft. You can download a free trial by going to http://www.zizisoft.com/flv-to-avi-converter/ which you can then buy a licence for and register at a later date. Conversion takes a few seconds and the file can then be played using many player. This has the advantage that media player can be found on most machines and the video clips can be forwarded or rewound as necessary which is not possible with the VLC player below.
If in the unlikely case that it doesn't play on media player it probably means that the correct codecs are not installed, the simplest option is to download another player such as DIVX.
DIVX can be downloaded free by Clicking here (Start by going with the default options but you can stop when it asks you to install the DIVX Web Player.
Windows Media Player can be downloaded free by Clicking Here
The second option is to use VLC Media Player Portable which is packaged as a portable application, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer.
Go to
http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable
Click on the large Download button
If it appears Click on the yellow warning box at the top of
the screen to allow the file to be downloaded
Select Run when asked
Select where you want the application to be placed this can
be on your desktop or your pen drive ...
Note it can be copied and placed in other places afterwards.
When it has been downloaded, click on the icon and select
file open and then browse for your files ...