Our district has filtered access for middle and high school students to view approved YouTube videos while at school, but K-5 students are blocked from viewing them on their own. While there are many concerns and reasons why elementary kids should have a very limited access to all the material widely available on YouTube, there are also many educational topics that can be found on YouTube.
On the tech side, there are many ways in which YouTube videos can be embedded (in Schoology, on a Google Site, etc.) but those are still pulling the original video from YouTube, and therefore blocked with our filtering system. Teachers have been showing content rich YouTube videos to students as a whole class using a teacher account to access the material, but when offering specific videos to students to watch at their own convenience hasn't been possible.
Until now.
Safeshare.tv is a site that allows a teacher to find a specific YouTube video, enter the URL into the Safeshare.tv window, and safeshare tv will create an entirely new video solely using the video content from YouTube. This removes any ads, additional video bars, and teachers can even crop the video to focus on a specific part of the video that they wish their kids to view.
The video that is created no longer pulls from YouTube, and therefore is not blocked by our filters. Only teachers who have access to YouTube can pull videos to put into safeshare.tv, and then those links can be shared with students for them to view when appropriate.
Check out this tutorial video on how to use Safeshare.tv, by watching a YouTube video that has been imported into Safeshare.tv!
As always, contact your Ed Tech Coach if you have any questions or want to talk about how to implement new ideas in your classroom with your students!
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WOOOOO HOOOOOO! Thank you, tech team!!
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