Which means when you go home and find those perfect YouTube videos (or other videos from sites that are blocked), you can convert them to Windows Media Files, Movie files, or whatever your computers at school support, and then send them via e-mail to school where they’ll be waiting for you to use. A HUGE range of files are supported, including image, document, music, video, and more. Meaning all of those wonderful YouTube videos that are blocked can be converted into any use-able file (up to 100MB) and then sent to your e-mail in order to be downloaded. boasts as a completely free (one of my favorite words!) online file and URL conversion tool.
We as teachers know valuable AND appropriate resources when we see them, but too often non-educators block us from using them at school. Of course, thanks to our filters, she couldn’t show those valuable resources to her students at school, and there’s the rub.
Having never taught such a course before, she started looking for examples of other student work on the internet and found dozens of perfect student projects on YouTube. For instance, our high school Tech Literacy teacher began teaching a new class this year about digital movie making. I understand why such websites are blocked for students, and for the most part I agree with blocking some of the more distracting elements (dude, check out the video of this car catching fire!), it’s unfortunate that our staff doesn’t have the ability to access some of the great teaching materials and examples that can be found on YouTube. On a more serious note, far too many school district’, including my own, take a hardline stance against allowing access to websites like YouTube and other video sharing sites (can’t get to Google Video at school either). I’ll give everyone a moment to find a way to get around their school’s filters now that my site has probably been blocked for posting such a headline….
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