If you've worked in a school where IT and teachers come from different universes, you might be frustrated to find that the filtering of your web access makes your internet connection about as useful as a bucket of hammers. I came across a solution a couple of years back that allows you to burn any video you find on youtube, or most other flash video sites into a hardcopy (saved to disk or flashdrive) that you can then launch from your classroom computer rather than the internet. This will also save you big problems if the wireless or internet connection goes down altogether, as you only need a smartboard and computer to play the video now.
Here is the link. The program is called atube catcher.
Download the program to your computer
install it
open it
find a youtube video
copy the webaddress and drop it into the source box (on top).
hit download
The video will download from youtube, then the program will convert it to a .avi file and drop it on your desktop.
drag and drop the file into your flashdisk and you will be able to play it on Windows Media player at school.
If you have trouble with playback try dropping it from your flashdisk to you desktop before you play it back. Sometimes the files are too large to play through a USB connection smoothly.
Cheers
Dave
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