Isn't Youtube great? Where else can one watch endless music videos and bloopers? Of course, YouTube can be a lot of fun, but it's educational value is tremendous as well. When used properly, YouTube is a treasure trove of educational content featuring everything from Presidential speeches, to newscasts, to step-by-step economics instruction. Over the past 2 years, YouTube has become this teacher's best friend. However, even when used effectively for educational purposes, teachers have to deal with reality of advertisements and suggested videos. At best, such issues are distracting, at worst they are inappropriate. Today I wanted to share with you two tricks to help you safely use and declutter YouTube. Both of these tools could be used when sharing videos with students for homework or when showing a video during class time. I hope you find them helpful. ViewPure is a great resource for removing ads and other distractions. Simply find the video you'd like to show on YouTube and the copy the URL. Paste the URL in the space provided on ViewPure and the new "purified" video will play ad-free and provide you with a new URL to share with students. The website also allows you to drag and drop a "purify" button to your bookmark bar to use when showing future videos. For more information watch this helpful video. Safeshare.tv is another wonderful tool for purifying videos. It works in a manor very similar to ViewPure, but it offers more options including the ability to customize a video by changing the name, theme, and length. In addition, Safeshare tv has an app available in the Apple App Store which would be helpful for teachers working primarily with iPads. Here is a helpful tutorial.
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Trent AshcraftI'm a Social Studies teacher in Louisville, KY. I teach AP US History, AP Government, and AP Microeconomics and I drink too much coffee. ArchivesCategories |