techie help needed please
Oct. 23rd, 2009 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woolymonkeyFor entirely respectable educational purposes, I'd likd to show this video, or a version of it to my OU students. (As an example of different ways of presenting science.)
But one of the schools I teach at has decided to filter the whole of youtube. ("You understand, we're a school, we have to keep these things out.") While I think this is mind-blowingly stupid of them, it's not something I can change. Is there a way I can get the video onto a memory stick, or, better still, into my OU 'my stuff' space, or anywhere else where Norwich educators would feel it was safe to allow access?
If your advice involves getting down and techy, I won't understand, butmusique_monkey probably will, so that's OK.
Edited to add:
I won't have access to the computers at the school until about 10 minutes before the students start arriving.
But one of the schools I teach at has decided to filter the whole of youtube. ("You understand, we're a school, we have to keep these things out.") While I think this is mind-blowingly stupid of them, it's not something I can change. Is there a way I can get the video onto a memory stick, or, better still, into my OU 'my stuff' space, or anywhere else where Norwich educators would feel it was safe to allow access?
If your advice involves getting down and techy, I won't understand, but
musique_monkey probably will, so that's OK.Edited to add:
I won't have access to the computers at the school until about 10 minutes before the students start arriving.
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Date: 2009-10-23 10:41 am (UTC)That looks like a great link--thanks! I'll keep that for reference, but it looks as though I may not need it just yet.
The school phoned back to say the IT man had a 'sharp intake of breath' at the very notion of granting youtube access, but the secretary, who's a real sweetie, went over his head to someone who's told him to unblock youtube for Open University log-ons. She'll ring me next week to say if it's worked...