Youtube Video

Using video as a classroom resource can be a powerful tool, but can sometimes be risky if you are looking at a YouTube video. YouTube videos can be dangerous because you never know what offensive comments might be featured below the video or what related videos might be suggested to the right of the video. While you may have looked at the video a million times without ever seeing an inappropriate video, luck would have it as soon as you went to show the video to your students an inappropriate video would show up.

There is hope though! Tools like Quietube and SafeShare strip YouTube videos of all of the background noise that surrounds the video so you simply have the video. Quietube is a button that you add to your toolbar. When you go to YouTube and navigate to the video you want to watch, you simply click on the Quietube button and it removes everything but the video. In SafeShare, you paste in the URL of the YouTube video you wish to watch (you would go to YouTube before class and get the video URL) and SafeShare will give you a new link to just your video. SafeShare also gives you the option to crop the video, so you only show the portions that you want your students to see.

Quietube Video snapshot

SafeShare Video snapshot