Youtube applications

When I returned home from my mission in Brazil all of my friends told me I had to check out this great website called youtube where I could watch just about anything from comedy bits to TV shows. One of the great things about youtube is that anyone can make a posting. This does lead to some concerns however in the academic world. Although youtube supposedly monitors new videos that are posted for inappropriate materials they cannot catch everything and what may be appropriate in their mind may be unacceptable in the mind of another viewer. Partly due to these reasons many school districts have placed a blocker on youtube in the classroom. It is a shame because there are several good short clips that could help in the classroom. Luckily there are ways to pull youtube clips off the website and post them in different formats that would be acceptable in the schools. A history teacher and more is a website where a teacher has posted several different ways to download and store these video clips online for school viewing purposes. To download the video off the site he suggests using KeepVid or Oyoom. After looking at these different sources I would suggest Oyoom since it allows you to do more with the video and is more informative. After the video has been downloaded you can return to A history teacher and more to check out how to convert this file into a variety of different files for storing purposes or embed it on a powerpoint. I think this is a useful tool. There are a lot of good sources to be found on youtube and if they can be taken out and placed on a powerpoint I think it makes it a safer tool. A teacher can also have students use this process when teaching mini lessons as well. They can download clips and place them in powerpoint presentations or place them on blogs etc.