You Tube Tricks

Sick of scantily-clad women and advertisements for male enhancement popping up after showing that YouTube video clip to your kids?  If you use Google Chrome as your web browser, you can install an extension called You Tube Options. Just search for it and click "install" and you'll be able to turn these off.

Want to share just a small clip instead of the entire video? You can set this up ahead of time by using this easy YouTube web clipper. Tammy Worchester Tang made this and presented it at the TCEA conference this weekend and it's super easy to use. You need to have a Google account, though, because it opens as a Google Spreadsheet.

You can make a YouTube playlist on your YouTube account and then share that entire playlist on your web page for parents and students. You can also play all the videos in the playlist at once, without stopping. (This would be great for short, informational clips or indoor recess.)  I've experimented with this here.