Save a YouTube Video to My Computer

I looked at this activity in two different ways. The first way I thought to address this was to create a Google Doc that contained the YouTube video that I wanted to select. I am a huge basketball fan, played in high school, and could have continued in college but chose not to. I remember when I was on the middle school basketball team and having a WVWC player help me with my shot. I learned a tremendous amount from her. One of the teaching tips that really stuck with me was the BEEF shooting method. Here is my Google doc where you can learn the BEEF method.

I then started to read more into our directions and thought that maybe I should have figured out a way to actually save it to my computer. So to begin this process I logged into my YouTube account and located the BEEF-4 video. I located it but could not see the Real Player tab on the top right hand corner of the video to upload it. I finally realized that I was in Chrome and switched to Internet Explorer. I re-logged in to my YouTube account and re-located my video. I was able to see my little blue tab to upload my video to real player. Once I had that uploaded I then converted it to a WMV file and there was an option of where to save it. I selected to save it as a video to my computer.

Now came the really tricky part figuring out how to post it. It only made sense to me to upload it back to YouTube. Here is the new link for the video that I uploaded back to YouTube. I also changed the title to "BEEF it's not what's for dinner but how to Shoot a Basketball!

This activity would best link with Standard # 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity. In my collaborative Reading class we are researching Charles Dickens. This would be a great tool for students to explore and find information that would help define who he is and what he accomplished. The could then save it , store it, bring it to class and present it. The student would have high interest due to being on YouTube and searching for videos. Not only would the be using technology appropriately but they would be learning about the author in the process. This would be a great way for them to interpret their meaning of who Charles Dickens is and what they were able to conclude about him.