Using Technology2Teach

Have you ever seen a great video on YouTube that you’d love to share with your class?  Notice that YouTube is blocked in school?  This is for a very good reason.  YouTube has more video uploaded each day than there is time in the average human life to watch it!  How could it possibly be screened for inappropriate content and blocked?  You as the teacher, however, have the ability to not only find appropriate high quality content to share with your students, but now it’s also possible to download that video content using the website www.keepvid.com.

Watch the screencast below to see the 5 simple steps to downloading a video from YouTube using www.keepvid.com.

1.  Find the video you’d like to download on www.youtube.com
2.  Copy the URL for that specifc video from your browser’s address bar
3.  Open www.keepvid.com in another tab
4.  Paste the URL into the blue window, then click the gray “Download” button
5.  Allow the app to run and choose the file format you’d like to use
(.MP4 will work for the QuickTime video player)