[Year 12 IT Apps] Regarding youtube ....

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi Folks,

  Don't want to veer off topic too much but ...

   Students incorporate video in presentations. Teachers plead for youtube as it has tutorials. Blocking students and allowing teachers was tried, except staff became the foot soldiers for students who wanted to incorporate the relevant movie files which you can save to a clip (flv or mp4) with a multitude of sites ( eg. keepvid.com ) and then convert to any format you like ( mpeg I or II, avi, wmv ) using a range of online utilities eg. Super Video converter. Currently closed, we open and close youtbube a few times a day and it is a pain.  

 Ok, students can bring videos from youtube from home , but why wait until the next day to get something educational and necessary now when we have the technology to get it ?  Because others may stray onto the undesirable side of youtube. They can do that with the internet can't they ? Yes, but we log and block known hazards.

 Not all things are black or white. Not satisfactory and I don't have an answer to all the questions related to this -- yet.


Best Wishes




Kevork Krozian
IT Manager , Forest Hill College
k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
Mobile: 0419 356 034

>>> "Hutchison, Geoffrey G" <hutchison.geoffrey.g at edumail.vic.gov.au> 1/09/2008 7:38 pm >>>
Students - no
Staff - yes

cheers,
Geoff Hutchison,
IT Manager/Coordinator,
McGuire College,
Shepparton, Vic



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Monday, 1 September 2008 3:11 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Hard disk shredder

I've made it available to staff, but not kids.

Somehow (don't ask me) staff were instructed how to save Youtube FLVs 
and play them with VLC player so they could show them to kids without 
the kids needing Youtube access here at school - too much timewasting 
and bandwidth abuse.

Kevork Krozian wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
>  Just debating youtube in school at present. Is it accessible to
everyone at your school ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Kevork Krozian
> IT Manager , Forest Hill College
> k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au 
> http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au 
> Mobile: 0419 356 034
> 
>>>> Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> 1/09/2008 1:47 pm >>>
> A joy to watch!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o 
> 
> Good for U4O2 data security.
> 


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