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» How To: By Jeffrey Branzburg You Can Take It With You How to integrate video segments in curriculum— without worry. ideo-sharing sites such as YouTube and Google Video contain a great deal of education-related content. For example, take YouTube’s CitizenTube, an area where presidential candidates can post videos, participate in interviews, and respond to users’ questions and comments. Let’s say you want your students to have access to those interviews. The problem is that YouTube and Google Video also contain inappropriate material for students, and therefore several schools and districts have blocked access to those sites. So, how can you get hold of the most useful videos and leave the rest? It’s easy if your school or district does not block YouTube. You can simply embed the video into a blog. For example, the page of the YouTube interview with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a Democrat presidential hopeful (http://youtube .com/watch?v=7q4jttkmubY), includes both the URL and the code that can be used to embed the video. Embedding this video into a blog usually involves just copying and pasting the Embed code to the blog entry. That way the video plays within the blog without the viewer actually going to YouTube, thus avoiding further exploration of the site. Another method is to copy and paste the URL to a blog or a Web site in order to create a link to it. Clicking the URL, however, will take you to YouTube to view the video, with the possibility of access40 | www.techlearning.com V ing other—perhaps inappropriate— content. For copyright information, see the Copyright and YouTube sidebar (page 42). If your school or district does block YouTube, then the link approach will not work. Instead you will need to download the video. However, you’ll notice that YouTube does not provide a direct download link. You can do an Internet search for “download YouTube,” but your search will return thousands of hits. What to do? Here’s what I did to download Governor Richardson’s YouTube video. The first download service I tried was Video Downloader 2.0 (http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_ en.php). By entering the video’s URL, I was able to download the YouTube file directly to my computer. This file, however, had the extension FLV (Flash Video), which was unrecognized by my computer. I tried opening it with Google Video Now it's easy to keep your students informed on 2008 presidential election issues with new download video tools. http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php http://youtube.com/watch?v=7q4jttkmubY http://youtube.com/watch?v=7q4jttkmubY http://www.techlearning.com

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