techie help needed please

[woolymonkey]

For 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, 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.

Comments

[penknife.livejournal.com]

Are you using Firefox or IE? For Firefox, Easy Youtube Video Downloader is a pretty easy add-on that'll let you download Youtube videos -- once you've installed it, you'll see a link to the right of the video that'll let you download it in various formats.

I'm sure there's an equivalent for IE, I just don't know one off the top of my head -- if you Google "Youtube Downloader," you can probably find one.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

AT the school, I'll have to use IE :(

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...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Load the latest FREE copy of RealPlayer on your PC. (be careful, it will try to convince you to try the paid for versions!)

Then when the video is playing in YouTube, move your mouse over the video and you'll get a "download this video" option popup at the top right corner of the video.

It works great, and I've been using it to grab guitar tutorial videos off YouTube :-)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Looks as though I now won't need it for tutorials--see reply to penknife. But thanks all the same as I'm sure something like this will come in handy for home use. (I'd rather just use youtube for tutorials if I can because I never know if a particular centre will have realplayer or whatever there when I need it.)

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Well, I downloaded that video you pointed at, and it comes in as a 21Mb .flv (flash video) ... so you shouldn't need RealPlayer to play it, just anything that can play a flash video ... though I don't know what that might be :-)

There are several free FLV players out there, but I highly recommend VLC as
a) it's free!
b) it can play just about anything

It's what we've been putting on machines for SF conventions so that if someone shows up with something on a memory stick and it's a video, VLC will play it.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what I need for home. Maybe also as a back up for teaching at venues that may not allow internet access. Thanks!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I've just got around to doing that and it works--thank you!