Raffa on YouTube…
Apr 27
Peter Rafferty of Green Park School fame sent me a YouTube link to Dave Kirby’s poem ‘A Tale of Two Kensingtons’ that he wanted to include on his class blog. Even as an Everton supporter, I recognise that this is a great resource for getting boys interested in poetry, particularly if you are teaching on Merseyside.
The problem is that if you click through to the video on YouTube, you are forced to read comments that are profane and unsuitable for his Year 1 audience.
At the top of KS2 (10/11 year-olds) I would happily grasp the nettle and discuss the appropriateness of the commenting but not at Year 1. It’s a shame that the software doesn’t allow the link back to YouTube to be disabled while still allowing the video’s level of google juice to increase. Then everyone would be a winner.
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Would it be possible to download an FLV player from http://www.keepvid.com, and then download the video as an .flv file through the same website? It means that when you come to use the video you don’t need to access YouTube at all, and thus avoid the complexities which that can provoke.
It’s something I’ve tried with some of my groups, and only takes a few seconds before the lesson, whilst also avoiding potential internet failures.
Chris
Thanks Chris. I’ll try it. It probably means I can put lots of clips of Liverpool F.C. on my blog. We have to teach children about the important things in life!
indeed…as it happens I was reading about the same thing recently on the soccer toolbar, found a free download link here for anyone interested – http://sportstoolbar.blog.co.uk/