This week, I have a sort of guest post from NBG's Building Level Tech Specialist, Mary Jo Minarich. You may have seen her tip on how to use Safe YouTube, whether you saw it when she shared it with teachers at NBG or when our superintendent shared is district wide. You might be thinking, "If we already got this, why are we getting it again?" Well, that answer is easy: because this is so easy to do and can be a really helpful tool that it is worth sharing more than once!
Safe YouTube is a very easy way to show YouTube videos to your students without having to worry about the distracting and sometimes inappropriate ads and video suggestions that always are shown next to the video you are seeing. It also takes away all the comments from view, which can be a waste of time to read at best and completely offensive at worst.
Removing all the surrounding items on a YouTube video helps keep your students focused on the content of the video instead of scanning what's around it, asking for you to play other videos or calling attention to something they shouldn't be seeing at school. And like I said above, it is very easy to do -- it's simply a matter of a few clicks!
I encourage you to give this a try! Use it for stand-alone videos, videos you embed in presentations or QR codes, or videos you post to Google Classroom. Want to see how to do this step by step? Then check out Mary Jo's simple and engaging directions!
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