Silly YouTube Tricks

I've got a few silly tricks to share when using YouTube.

The 1st is 'Quiet YouTube.'

First, find the video you want to watch in quiet mode. Then in the address bar, put quiet in front of youtube.com.

Example: http://www.quietyoutube.com/watch?xkjfdfkdf

Then hit enter and this will take you to a "quiet" page of the video you want. There will be no advertisements to other videos on the side. Great for classroom environments.


The 2nd silly trick is 'copy URL at current time.'

Say you want to share a video with somehow to show them a specific part in the clip. There would be two options really....give them the time they should jump to or make them watch the entire clip. With copy URL at current time, we can skip doing both of those.

To do this, got the time spot in the video you want and pause the video at that time. Go gown to the red bar and highlight over the red line with your cursor on the time you would like to start with. Then right-click and chose copy video URL at current time.

Now you can share this link or put it online and whoever watches it will see the video start at the exact moment you picked. Nice!

Those were just a couple quick silly YouTube tricks. I picked them up at a Google educator training this week and wanted to jot them down here for notes and to help other people as well. Hope everyone has been doing well!



~Michael