Safe Ways to View You Tube

By Anonymous -
Last week I shared a blog post about using You Tube videos to enhance your lessons and to host your videos online.  As we all know, You Tube does have some distracting advertisements, additional videos and sometimes inappropriate comments.  So I would like to share two ways to view You Tube videos in a way that eliminates the ads, sidebar and comments.

The first way is called View Pure.  It is very easy to use.  All you need to do is copy and paste the url of the You Tube video you would like to see and then click on Create.

Here is how a video is displayed on View Pure:


The second way to view a You Tube video is called SafeShare TV.  This site works much the same as the previous one.  You will paste the url of the You Tube video into the site and click "Generate Safe Link". 


 Then SafeShare will give you a new url to copy and paste for safer viewing.


Another thing that SafeShare allows you to do is crop a video if you only want to share a portion of a You Tube video.  This is also very easy to do.  Just click below the new url and choose where to start and stop your video.  

I hope that these two sites make it easier for you to share You Tube videos with your students.



Comments

Carrie said…
Thanks Deb...I love using You Tube but often stayed away due to the "advertisement challenges". This will make using You Tube much easier for us in Kindergarten! :)
February 1, 2011 at 6:39 PM
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