Using YouTube without all the Junk!

Ever use a portion of a YouTube video in your lesson and cringe at the site of all the junk on the screen? The suggestions to other videos to watch, the comments that might be inappropriate and the advertisements?

Below is a YouTube screen filled with that junk.

Now see a YouTube video in a clean view using SafeShare.tv.

Here is what you need to do to get a "clean view" of a YouTube video. Copy the URL that you would share for a YouTube video.

Then paste that YouTube URL into one of the following sites for a clean view to share with your students.

SafeShare.tv

ViewPure.com

TubeChop.com

Animated Videos

Here is a FREE new tool in which you can make animated videos quick and easy. Tellagami is a tool that currently can only be used through an app, not on the Internet. You pick a scene, add your voice and then share your gami (what they call the videos). Currently you are able to record 30 seconds of audio and only one character is able to be put in a gami .

Tellagami is very easy to use.

 

What devices can Tellagami be used on? iPads, iPhones, SmartPhones (Android) or Android Tablets. Click HERE to take an "App Tour" to see how Tellagami can be used on an iPhone or an Android phone.

Here is a sample Tellagami.

Videos are magic with Magisto

Magisto can give ordinary videos and pictures a more professional look.  Very similar to Animoto.  Magisto can be used online by going to www.magisto.com, or can be used as an app on any android or Apple device.  Students must be 13 years old or older to sign up for their own Magisto account.  You can use up to 16 videos and 5 pictures in your video with a time limit of 25 minutes.  You can share the video on many of the social media networks, however if you want to download the video it may cost you $2.99.  When you create a video in Magisto it is automatically listed as unlisted, so the only way other people will see it is if you share it with them.