YouTube tricks

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YouTube has a lot of tricks up its sleeve to make your classroom viewing experience more enjoyable.  All teachers hate when they play a YouTube video in front of their class just to be confronted with an embarrassing barrage of advertisements and video recommendations.  You don't have to put up with this!  Read on to learn about some tricks to make your YouTube viewing and sharing experience more efficient.

Play video in full screen with no ads or suggested videos

The image below shows two ways you can make a slight alteration to the video's URL to make it play in full screen with no ads or suggested videos.  An easy thing to remember is to ad a hyphen in the word YouTube in the URL between the 'T' and the 'U' (yout-ube.com).  Try it!  You'll be impressed.  Click on this link to see it in action:  https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=w8OnpsoDxns

YouTube trick

Download a YouTube video to your computer

If the Internet is being less than cooperative, you can get caught watching a streaming video buffer in front of your class.  If you want to download the video to play from your desktop, simply a 'pi' to the end of the word YouTube in the URL.  For example:
When you add 'pi' to the URL, you will be delivered to a website that allows you to download the video or just the audio of the selected YouTube source. 

And so much more!

My good friend and technology integration specialist Eric Curts published a blog that contains 18 tips and tricks that you can apply to YouTube.  These tricks include adjusting playback speed, picture-in-picture, captions (with language translations too!), keyboard shortcuts, making gifs, etc.  To check these tricks out, visit




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