We had another assignment to complete this week and from the look of it (and keeping my fingers crossed) we are shifting into the video portion of the class. The second assignment this week was to appropriate a You Tube video and another one was sign up for a You Tube account for sole purpose of time saving I am combining the two assignments into 1 blog post.
I already had a You Tube account you can find my channel through my account name which is Andria636. That part was easy from what I remember it's free to set up just type in your e-mail address set up a password, enter your birth date and then accept terms and conditions. BAM! All set up and ready to go this was important because of the other part of this assignment which calls for you to upload a video into your channel. The other part of the assignment Dr. Pierce wanted us to consider this scenario: "You found a video you really like or is perfect for some situation (learn a guitar song, barbecue a chicken, smoke a salmon) you pick. You love it, you use it, and the last time you went there you were greeted by the dreaded "This video has been removed by its owner". Now you have the "I don't know how to get video blues." So the challenge was this 1) How do you get a video from You Tube (or Teacher Tube, Google Video) on your machine and 2) how would you then post the video back to the internet? Take step 1 first. Since the content is managed by an owner, it might be nice to expropriate it for ourselves. And here is the challenge and what the requirements are: Figure out how to save an online video (that you didn't produce) and save it to your computer. Include in your blog post what products you used, what file format resulted? Can you post it? DON"T BUY ANYTHING. DON"T USE A TRIAL VERSION. Only freeware should be considered. You might have to download something but by this time in the semester, you should be use to that.
First the video I selected was something simple that I enjoy to do which is scrap booking. The You Tube video I selected was scrap booking for beginners to see the look before I uploaded it click below
I then turned to the higher power of GOOGLE to help me find a program that allowed me to save the you tube video to my computer and then upload back into You Tube. GOOGLE provided a plethora of programs you can use to save your videos and I chose the one that seemed the most simple to use, Save You Tube.
Click on this link to be brought to the web page saveyoutube.com. The web page should look like this:
To use this software which allows you to download a video from You Tube in 3 steps:
1) copy-and-paste a You Tube video URL into the form and hit download
2) if it's your first time a warning box may pop-up just select "Run" to continue. This is perfectly safe and will not install software.
3) A list of download links will appear right click on the format you want and select "save as" to start your download. ***NOTE the format I used was FLV 480p ***
The video then downloaded I opened the file through real player
Then I went to You Tube made sure that I was signed into my account and chose to upload the video and saved it to my library.
After I completed the task I received an e-mail from You Tube congratulating me on my first YouTube upload which gave me some tips how to go even deep into a YouTube experience so make sure that you are on the look out for that e-mail it's very helpful.
To view this video on my channel click here: Andria 636 scrapbooking.
Overall, this was a very simple assignment considering all the other downloading and saving we have done thus far in the class. I had zero complications and I don't anyone should as long as you can read directions and navigate YouTube. I can see this being helpful in the future for both personal and professional growth. Saving videos is a very good idea just because you don't know when the author is going to pull it and no one likes the feeling of not being prepared in front of a roomful of peers or students. So do the right thing save your video and upload to your channel.
The standard that this assignment met was:
So there you have my secret formula to appropriating a YouTube video and how to create an account.
Until the next assignment....
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