Teaching With the Tubes How to use YouTube and TeacherTube videos to supplement instruction Presented by Farmington Technology Department

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DigitalLearners Digital Learners Students are digital learners They have access to an unlimited amount of data They are accustomed to being “entertained” Digital Media is an everyday part of their lives They use digital media to express themselves and communicate to each other. We can use that same media to teach them

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Getting Video in 2 or 3 easy steps 1.Download 2.Convert (Optional) 2.Convert (Optional) 3.Use

Download For TeacherTube when you create an account and log in there will be a download button available to download the movie.

Download YouTube doesn't have a download option so we have to go to a website that will download the video we want.  Find the YouTube video you want to download and copy its URL from the address bar of your browser.

Download Youtube Continued Go to keepvid.com and paste the URL in the text box and select “Youtube” from the drop- down menu and hit download  It will then display a download link below. Click the.flv or.mp4(if available) and a download prompt should appear.

Download Youtube Continued.mp4 files are preferred because they are higher quality, but they are not always available..flv are flash video and are lower quality but are always available.  For.flv files you might have to type out the.flv at the end of the file when you are saving it. If it just says get_video and there is no.flv at the end, then give it a proper name and add the.flv at the end (see below)

Convert??? Now that you have the video you need to decide what you want to do with it.  If you just want to play the video there is a free media player called VLC that will play both.flv or.mp4 videos. Just go to and download install the windows version.  If you want to embed the video into a Power Point presentation or you need to be able to use windows media player then you'll need to convert the video.

Converting to.mpg If you decided that you want to convert the files to a more useful format then open a browser and go to  In the File box browse to the file you saved earlier  For the input format box make sure “Flash Video (.flv)” or MPEG-4(.mp4) is selected, depending on which type you are converting.  In the output box select “MPEG 1(.mpg) in the second box.

Converting to.mpg Continued Hit OK, and wait...wait...wait. When the file successfully converts hit the blue download button and a download prompt will appear.