How to Distribute Youtube School Broadcasts with Safe Youtube

Post date: Sep 30, 2016 9:59:37 PM

Last spring while giving a training about how to run a school video broadcast studio, one of the teachers introduced me to a great new (to me) tool by showing me how to distribute Youtube school broadcasts with Safe Youtube.

Check it out:

SafeYoutube.net is a wonderful resource unlocking how to distribute Youtube school broadcasts with Safe Youtube.

When you are giving out a Youtube video link to your students, the best thing to do is to distributed environment are all the related videos are not going to. I usually like to embed them in a website like on my Mr. Rosa 2.0 website. That YouTube embed code is "?rel=0". I wrote a blog post about how to use the "?rel=0" embed code on my Rosa Media Productions website. If you send the regular Youtube URL they can see all the related videos popping up in the sidebar. Some are pretty innocuous, and some are quite frankly atrocious. Lots of them are distracting because they've got interesting thumbnails. This is just what we face normally.

SafeYoutube.net is a tool that Jen Winters from Blossom Valley Elementary in Cajon Valley Union School District. It's a very simple interface. There is a place to paste a YouTube link right on the home page. Command-C for copy. Command-V for paste. Click the generate link button.

It will give you a link like this, "http:safeyoutube.net/..." with some characters after it. All you have to do is copy that link. Command-C. pasted onto the page where you are going to distribute the link to your students. If this is a Google document, remember to press return to turn it into a clickable link. Your students will just see the link, and they just click. The page loads up and they get a nice, clean viewing experience with none of that related videos mess around it.

That's how Safe Youtube works. It's really cool, and I'm pretty impressed with it. I'm going to explore this more. I would encourage you, if you want to avoid the distracting and possibly inappropriate thumbnails and things coming up, use safeyoutube.net. It seems like a great resource.

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