Youtube blocked at school? Got a blog? Show those Youtube videos!
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Mr.Rcollins
We are getting ready to roll out Google Apps for Education, and there was a video on Youtube from Google on sharing documents that I wanted to show to the staff. Unfortunately, YouTube is blocked at school, so embedding the video was out. To show the video, I did the following (requirements are Wordpress and the Podpress plugin):
- Using the Techcrunch YouTube Downloader to download the Flash Video file (.flv). Since the video is still downloading from YouTube, it will still be blocked, so you’ll have to do it from home or another location.
- Upload the video to your blog. Depends on how your blog is setup, for most people I’m assuming you would need to ftp the file.
- My blog runs under Wordpress, and I use the Podpress plugin for other things. I add the video to a blog post with the Podpress plugin.
The video is now embedded on my blog, and loading from my blog, so it will no longer be blocked.
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