Sharing Specific YouTube Video Content With Your Students
@joe_edtech / @LisaBerghoff
Warning, the beginning of this blog is a red herring - included because I simply couldn't believe a certain reality. Lisa and I both had an opportunity to attend a pretty remarkable professional development opportunity in the Houston school district. Instructional Technology professionals from across the country got together and visited some pretty innovative magnet schools in a very economically challenged part of the city. After the site visit, we all gathered and talked about some of the things we saw happening in the classes and somebody said something like, "I think it is great you can embed YouTube videos into your website, but what can we do? YouTube is blocked in our district." (I will return to the discussion of the innovative classrooms later, at the moment I am going to wallow in the righteous indignation of someone who can't believe there are school districts who still block YouTube!)
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| "Start at:" in YouTube |
So, I get it. There is a lot of garbage on YouTube. But there is a lot of good stuff on YouTube, too. Blocking YouTube is something akin to slicing off not just your nose to spite your face, but your head to spite your face. Silly.
However, not only are there a lot of videos on YouTube I'd like to share with my students, there are a lot of PARTS of YouTube videos I'd like to share with my students. Here are two ways to better focus your lessons on the specific video content.
From YouTube itself, you can share a video with your students and have it start at a specific point. When you are on YouTube, queue the video to your preferred starting point. Then, rather than simply copying the URL and posting the link on your website or in an email, you can click the "Share" link found underneath the video, click the button to "Start at:" a certain moment in the video. Then copy the custom link that appears in the "Share" window with your students.
Alternatively, if you would like to share parts of a longer video with your students, you can use a tool called Vibby. After you create a free account, you can select any YouTube video and "Highlight" specific sections. You can choose 1 section, or several. After you title each section, or add a brief note, you can share a custom link with your students. They will only see the sections of the video you've highlighted. One of the things that makes Vibby a great tool for school is that your students don't need an account to watch you custom video. When they click the link you sent them, they see something like this:
While Vibby is a great tool for sharing videos with your students, if you want to use YouTube videos to "Flip" your lessons or embed questions in YouTube videos, check out these posts:
- Supporting Flipped, Blended, and Differentiated Learning with EDpuzzle.com
- Embed Interactive Video Into Your Classroom With eduCanon
- Making Sense Out of Flipped Lessons
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